Senior HR Business Partner

Location: Runcorn / Preston Brook

Working pattern: Hybrid – 3 days office, 2 days home

Salary: £65,000–£68,000 DOE

Car allowance: £7,800

Bonus: 10%

Benefits: Private healthcare + wider benefits package

Senior HR Business Partner – Supply Chain & Commercial

Mission Search is delighted to be supporting a large international healthcare organisation as they appoint an experienced Senior HR Business Partner.

This is a high-profile opportunity to join an organisation at an exciting point in its development and partner directly with senior leaders across Supply Chain and Group Commercial. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders including the COO, Group Commercial Director and their leadership teams, providing commercially focused HR advice and helping to shape people strategies that directly support business performance.

The role

This is a varied senior HRBP position combining strategic partnering with hands-on operational delivery.

You will:

• Partner with senior leaders to translate business priorities into clear people plans.
• Provide credible, commercially focused HR advice at Board, Director and Head of Function level.
• Support workforce planning and organisational effectiveness.
• Lead complex employee relations matters and ensure appropriate risk management.
• Work closely with recognised trade unions on consultation, pay discussions and wider industrial relations.
• Lead people-related change and transformation projects.
• Use workforce data and people insight to identify trends and inform decision-making.
• Support succession planning, talent development and leadership capability.
• Manage, coach and support HR Delivery Managers across the depot network.
• Work closely with HR Shared Services and Centres of Expertise to ensure consistent and effective HR support.

About you

We’re looking for an experienced Senior HR Business Partner or comparable senior HR professional who is confident operating in a fast-paced, commercially focused environment.

Experience within supply chain, logistics, distribution, retail or another operational environment would be particularly relevant.

You'll ideally bring:

• Significant senior HRBP experience.
• Strong UK employment law and employee relations knowledge.
• Proven experience partnering with senior stakeholders.
• Experience working with recognised trade unions is highly desirable and would be a significant advantage.
• Experience supporting collective consultation and/or industrial relations.
• Experience delivering organisational change and transformation.
• Strong influencing, negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
• Confidence using people data to generate insight and recommendations.
• The ability to operate strategically while remaining close to operational realities.
• CIPD Level 7 qualification or equivalent experience.

Why join?

This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior HRBP to take on a genuinely influential role within a large, stable and purpose-led international healthcare organisation.

You’ll have direct exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to influence the people agenda across major Supply Chain and Commercial functions.

The package includes:

£65,000–£68,000 salary + £7,800 car allowance + £10,000 bonus, alongside private healthcare and a wider benefits package.

The role is based in Runcorn/Preston Brook, with a hybrid working arrangement of 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.

Interested?

If you’re an experienced HR Business Partner with strong operational and commercial experience – particularly if you have worked within a unionised environment – we’d be keen to hear from you.