HR Business Partner Our client is a well established business supplying high quality products to leading garden centres, supermarkets and e-commerce customers. They are now looking to strengthen their HR function with the addition of an HR Business Partner who will play a key role in supporting the business through its next phase of growth and change. About the Role This is a newly created Strategic HR Business Partner role, reporting into one of the directors and working closely with the Senior Management Team. What they are looking for is a true HR Business Partner, someone who operates at a strategic level, challenges constructively, influences senior leaders and helps shape the people agenda in line with long term business objectives. The successful candidate will act as a trusted advisor to the leadership team, helping to drive performance, coach and build leadership capability, and ensure the people strategy underpins the commercial goals of the business. Main Responsibilities Partner with senior leaders to align people strategy with business objectives Provide coaching and support to managers to develop their leadership capability Confidently challenge managers to raise leadership standards and performance Drive succession planning and identify future talent across the business Develop long term workforce planning and talent attraction strategies Support recruitment planning and ensure future skills needs are met Champion people development and learning initiatives Review and evolve company values and embed them across the organisation Act as a credible, trusted advisor, confident in having difficult and challenging conversations Provide practical, solutions focused HR advice that enables better decision making Required CIPD Level 7 (or working towards) Background in manufacturing or fresh produce sector Strong commercial awareness and ability to link people strategy to business performance Proven experience at HR Business Partner or Senior HR Manager level, or a high potential HR professional ready to step into a more strategic, business facing role Confidence to challenge, influence and coach senior stakeholders A pragmatic, solutions led approach with strong interpersonal skills Passion for making a difference and leaving a positive, long term impact Location Bournemouth region How to Apply If you are interested, please apply below, alternatively, contact Sandra on (phone number removed) or (url removed)