Greenergy delivers safe, efficient and reliable fuel solutions to customers across road, aviation and marine sectors. As an international transportation fuel supplier, we combine traditional and renewable energy solutions to support our customers through the energy transition.
Commitment to innovation and a drive to do things differently have seen Greenergy grow from a bedroom start-up to supply transport fuels in the UK, Ireland and Canada, as well as being a leading European manufacturer of waste-based renewables.
Are you an experienced HR Business Partner who can combine strategic thinking with practical, hands-on support?
We’re looking for a commercially focused HR Business Partner to support our Finance and IT functions. Working closely with senior leaders, you’ll translate business priorities into effective people plans, helping to strengthen organisational capability, leadership effectiveness, employee engagement and business performance.
Your remit will include organisational change, workforce planning, talent and succession, leadership coaching and complex employee relations. You’ll also use people data and business insight to identify risks, capability gaps and opportunities, providing constructive challenge and practical recommendations to leaders.
You’ll be an established HR Business Partner or HR Manager with strong stakeholder management skills, sound employment law knowledge and experience supporting change within a commercially focused organisation.
The role is based in our Manchester office, with three office-based days each week and occasional travel to other Greenergy sites and business locations.
This is one of three newly created HR Business Partner opportunities within our evolving HR team. We are also recruiting HR Business Partners to support our Assets & Infrastructure and Corporate & Commercial functions. Please review all three vacancies and apply for the role that most closely matches your experience and preferred location.
Strategic Business Partnering:
- Act as the dedicated HR Business Partner for the Finance and IT functions, building trusted relationships with leaders and managers
- Partner with leaders to develop and deliver people plans aligned to business objectives and the People Strategy
- Provide strategic advice and constructive challenge to improve organisational effectiveness, workforce planning and operational performance
- Identify people-related risks, trends and opportunities, recommending practical and commercially focused solutions
- Interpret workforce analytics and people insights to influence decision-making and improve organisational performance
- Support workforce planning and organisational effectiveness initiatives across Finance and IT
- Partner with functional leaders to identify capability gaps and develop people solutions that support business growth and operational excellence.
Talent, Capability & Performance:
- Partner with leaders to attract, develop and retain talented colleagues
- Lead talent reviews and succession planning activities across supported business areas.
- Work with the Talent & Development team to deliver leadership development and organisational capability initiatives
- Support performance and development processes, ensuring a clear link between performance, capability and career progression
- Promote a high-performance culture through effective performance management, accountability and continuous development
- Support functional leaders to develop capability and succession plans for critical and specialist roles.
Leadership & Employee Experience
- Coach senior leaders to strengthen people management capability and leadership effectiveness
- Support leaders to build engaged, high-performing teams and deliver local engagement action plans
- Champion a positive employee experience through consistent application of people policies and practices
- Support organisational change, restructures and transformation programmes
- Lead engagement, culture and leadership effectiveness initiatives across the Finance and IT functions
- Act as a trusted advisor to leaders during organisational change and business transformation.
Employee Relations:
- Lead complex employee relations matters, including disciplinary, grievance, capability, absence management and performance cases
- Provide expert advice on employment legislation, company policy and HR best practice
- Ensure employee relations matters are managed fairly, consistently and in line with legal requirements
- Provide guidance to HR Services on escalated employee relations matters where appropriate
- Work proactively with leaders to minimise people-related risks and build management capability through coaching and practical advice.
Collaboration & Continuous Improvement:
- Partner with HR Services and Centres of Expertise to deliver integrated people solutions
- Implement and embed Group-wide people initiatives across supported business areas
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of HR processes, policies and ways of working
- Use workforce data, employee feedback and business insights to improve organisational effectiveness and the employee experience
- Build strong collaborative relationships across Finance, IT and the wider HR team to support business priorities.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
- CIPD Level 7 qualification, or working towards, is desirable
- Proven experience operating as an HR Business Partner or Senior HR Generalist within a commercially focused organisation
- Significant experience partnering with senior leaders to deliver strategic people initiatives and measurable business outcomes
- Experience leading organisational change, organisational design, workforce planning and transformation programmes
- Strong experience managing complex employee relations matters and providing commercially focused advice on high-impact people issues
- Experience interpreting and analysing complex people, workforce and business data to identify trends, generate meaningful insights and make evidence-based recommendations that support business performance and strategic decision-making
- Experience supporting Finance and IT business functions
- Experience working within a business partnering model alongside HR Services and Centres of Expertise
- Strong knowledge of UK employment legislation and HR best practice
- Experience using Workday or similar HR information systems is desirable.
Skills and Attributes:
- Exceptional stakeholder management and relationship-building skills, with the ability to build credibility quickly across all levels of the organisation
- Strong commercial awareness and an understanding of how people strategies contribute to business performance
- Ability to influence, coach and constructively challenge senior leaders, driving accountability and informed decision-making
- Strategic thinker with the ability to balance long-term planning with practical operational delivery
- Advanced analytical capability, with the ability to interpret complex people and business data, identify trends and translate insights into practical recommendations that improve organisational performance
- Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills, with the confidence to engage and influence senior stakeholders
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making capability
- High levels of integrity, professionalism and discretion when managing confidential and sensitive matters
- Resilient, adaptable and comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- Passion for continuous improvement and delivering measurable business impact through people initiatives.
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Competitive compensation: Enjoy a competitive salary, enhanced by a discretionary bonus scheme that rewards both business and individual performance.
- Private medical insurance: Prioritise your health with comprehensive private medical insurance, including access to online GP services from AXA for you and your family.
- Enhanced company pension: Secure your future with enhanced company pension contributions that support your long-term financial goals.
- Cycle to work scheme: Embrace a sustainable lifestyle with our cycle to work scheme.
- Season ticket loan: Spread the cost of your commute and take advantage of annual discounts with an interest free season ticket loan.
- Volunteering and charity: We encourage you to give back to the community through volunteering days and charitable initiatives.
- Enhanced holiday allowance: Enjoy 25 days of annual leave, in addition to bank holidays.
- Global travel insurance: Travel with peace of mind, courtesy of worldwide multi-trip travel insurance coverage for you and your family.
- Employee discount platform: Access exclusive discounts through our employee discount platform.
- Enhanced parental leave: Generous maternity and paternity pay to support you and your family when you need it most.
Greenergy are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our colleagues is critical to our success as a global company. Employment at Greenergy is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnerships.
Greenergy supply over 15 billion litres of fuel annually across the UK, Ireland and Canada – managing fuel supply chains from refinery gates to customer sites and managing over 500 deliveries per day. To deliver fuel to our customers, we have a 24/7 in-house haulage operation, Greenergy Flexigrid, made up of over 650 drivers and a fleet of over 250 tankers. Greenergy also owns and operates biodiesel manufacturing plants in England and the Netherlands that process waste oils sourced globally into biodiesel, which is used to displace diesel in road transport.
For over 30 years, Greenergy has been investing in lower carbon renewable fuels that can be used in vehicles on the road today. As a leading European manufacturer of waste-based biodiesel, renewables are central to Greenergy’s strategy to support customers through the energy transition.
Find out more about us at www.greenergy.com
