HR Business Partner Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (hybrid working) We are looking for a strategic, commercially minded HR Business Partner to work closely with the General Manager and the Leadership Team, driving both operational and long‑term people priorities. This is a highly influential role where you will shape culture, build capability, and contribute directly to delivering our performance goals in alignment with both Group and Steam strategies. As a key member of the OpCo Leadership Team, you will partner the business across all areas of People & Culture, leading a comprehensive HR roadmap that supports high performance, engagement, and sustainable business outcomes. Key Responsibilities Strategic Partnership & Leadership: Act as an active member of the Leadership Team, contributing to OpCo strategy, performance delivery and wider business initiatives. Lead the annual HR/People roadmap, including both recurrent and project‑based activities. Drive a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging innovation, constructive challenge, and performance excellence. Talent Acquisition & Development: Lead recruitment excellence by implementing innovative strategies to attract, assess and retain diverse talent. Collaborate closely with hiring managers to optimise processes and elevate the candidate experience. Own the OpCo talent development and succession planning agenda. Support the identification, development, and mobility of high‑potential colleagues. Engagement & Culture: Drive employee engagement initiatives, including survey deployment, action planning, and manager capability uplift. Champion cultural development, supporting organisational evolution and transformation where required. HR Operations & Advisory: Ensure HR policies, initiatives and practices are understood, embedded and delivering intended business outcomes. Provide expert advice on employment law, HR policies and people‑related decision making. Deliver core HR activity including performance management, reward processes, recruitment, inclusion and engagement. Provide timely, accurate information for Quarterly Business Reports, forecasting and business planning. Collaboration & Contribution: Work closely with HR colleagues across UK Steam to ensure consistency, leverage best practice and support shared initiatives. Contribute to HR projects at EMEA, Steam and Group level. Experience & Qualifications: Degree in HR, Business, or equivalent professional experience. Strong track record of HR Business Partnering at a senior level. Proven ability to influence without authority and deliver results through others. Experience advising managers on a wide range of employee relations matters. Demonstrated history of developing leadership teams and elevating leadership capability. Strong background in managing change and supporting organisational development. Ability to build strong partnerships, challenge constructively, and drive business performance. Experience in organisational design, cultural transformation or operating within complex matrix environments. Experience in talent management, rewards, recruitment, and engagement practices. Coaching qualification or experience. Proven success in leading projects impacting business structure or processes. Skills & Competencies Strategy and Continuous Improvement: Understanding our Group strategy and deploy it Proven ability to deliver significant programs, e.g., those involving business process and/or structural team changes. People: Leading aligned to our Followership Framework Communicating and storytelling Identifying potential and developing, attracting and sharing talented colleagues Inspiring high engagement, accountability and performance Leading change through people Other: Lives our values at all times (Safety, Collaboration, Customer Focus, Excellence, Respect and Integrity). Experienced communicator with the ability to influence at all levels and present in senior forums Able to operate within a complex, matrix organisation Strong interpersonal skills – able to build trust and constructive and positive relationships across, diverse cultures and the business in all levels Ability to manage and organise demanding workload Awareness and curiosity in the challenge of meeting generational & cultural changes in the coming years Growth mindset and willingness to learn The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra. Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies. Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones! Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included. Benefits You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below. Everyone is Included at Spirax Group We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique. We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working. We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments. We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.