HR Business Partner

The Vacancy

Are you an HR professional ready to take the next step in your career? Join Wates Group as an HR Business Partner and gain valuable experience while making a difference in our people strategy. This is an ideal role for an HR generalist looking to grow their influence and skills in a fast paced and dynamic environment.

About the Role

As an HR Business Partner with Wates Property Services , you’ll work directly with line managers and team leaders to implement HR best practices that support our business goals. You’ll be the go-to person for HR guidance, coaching managers on effective people management and ensuring that our HR processes are applied consistently and effectively. Additionally, the role may lead, or participate in, projects that span the whole of WPS.

You’ll also have access to our HR Centres of Excellence, including a Shared Service Centre and expert teams in core HR areas, giving you plenty of resources to help you succeed and learn.

What You’ll Do

• Coaching & Support: Work with managers to help them lead, develop, and motivate their teams, offering coaching to foster effective people management.
• Compliance & Governance: Ensure that people processes and decisions meet compliance and governance standards, driving consistency and high performance.
• Talent & Development: Support managers in identifying talent, planning for succession, and ensuring development needs are met through training and career growth opportunities.
• Change Management: Assist in managing change initiatives, ensuring that people-related processes are compliant, fair, and aligned with our values.
• Employee Relations: Help resolve employee relations cases in a timely, effective manner and work on initiatives to boost employee engagement.
• Performance & Reward: Support the delivery of our performance and reward processes, helping managers to implement annual salary reviews and performance improvement plans.

About You:

You will be a Graduate or equivalent with a minimum of CIPD level 5 qualification and have already gained hands-on experience in HR, ideally in a business unit or multi-site setting.

Knowledge & Approach: You have a strong grasp of employment law and HR best practices, with a practical and solution-oriented mindset.

Skills: You’re a problem-solver with great communication skills, and you’re comfortable coaching and advising managers at all levels.

Business/Commercial Acumen: You’re comfortable working in a commercial environment and bring a pragmatic approach to balancing business and people priorities.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to build your HR expertise in a supportive environment, with plenty of room to grow. If you’re excited to develop your HR career with a forward-thinking company, apply today to join Wates Group!

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.