Hybrid People Business Partner

at Low Carbon Contracts Company

• Job title: People Business Partner
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: £63,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Birmingham, United Kingdom

About the role

• People Business Partner at Low Carbon Contracts Company, driving business outcomes through effective people management and stakeholder relationships. Focused on delivering the talent capabilities needed for Net Zero.

Responsibilities

• Manage Employee Relations cases, including absence, performance, disciplinary, grievance, and investigations, supported by the People Advisor.
• Coordinate cyclical people activities, including workforce planning, performance and reward cycles, and engagement, in partnership with Talent Acquisition ( TA) and Learning & Development (L&D)
• Maintain oversight of policies, procedures, and processes, ensuring legal compliance, market best practice, and alignment with organisational culture.
• Support People Operations in embedding robust frameworks and processes to drive consistency, compliance, and fairness.
• Use people data to inform priorities, measure impact, and demonstrate value of People initiatives.
• Lead organisational design reviews, functional alignment, and role evaluations.
• Partner with the TA team to drive advocacy for our employer brand and talent opportunities.
• Support embedding organisational values, ensuring clarity of expectations and a fair, consistent culture.
• Partner with Internal Communications to review engagement insights, facilitate follow-up sessions, and support leaders in creating and delivering engagement action plans.
• Ensure all people practices are viewed through a DEI lens to maintain a positive and inclusive culture.
• Partner with (L&D) to understand development needs, build line manager capability, and identify and retain high-potential talent.
• Support the design and facilitation of targeted capability-building training programs.
• Contribute to building and maintaining a strong succession pipeline for critical roles.
• Drive a high-performance culture through effective feedback, talent development, and robust management of underperformance and behaviour misalignment with values.
• Support the Rewards Partner and business leaders to ensure fair and competitive pay decisions that support equity, talent attraction and retention, and reward the right behaviours.
• Champion and embed a culture of ongoing recognition that drives engagement, supports retention and aligns with organisational values

Requirements

• Experience operating as a strategic Business Partner in a fast pace paced, scaling environment
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, able to balance support and challenge
• Excellent communication, problem- solving and decision making capability
• Proven Employee Relations case management experience with solid knowledge of current employment legislation
• Experience supporting with with Organisational design and change management initiatives
• Commercial mindset with a strong focus on delivery and results
• Understanding of learning, development and talent management approaches
• Ability to use people data to generate insights and demonstrate value/ROI.

Benefits

• Annual performance based bonus, up to 10%
• 25 days annual leave, plus eight bank holidays
• Up to 8% pension contribution
• Financial support and time off for study relevant to your role, plus a professional membership subscription
• Employee referral scheme (up to £1500), and colleague recognition scheme
• Family friendly policies, including enhanced maternity leave and shared parental leave
• Free, confidential employee assistance, including financial management, family care, mental health, and on-call GP service
• Three paid volunteering days a year
• Season ticket loan and cycle to work schemes
• Family savings on days out and English Heritage, gym discounts, cash back and discounts at selected retailers
• Employee resource groups