HR Business Partner | National | Permanent

Salary: £50,000 plus car allowance and discretionary bonus scheme.

Location: National/Hybrid

Benefits and perks:

• An impressive holiday allowance of 25 days.
• Additional day off for your birthday so you can celebrate in style.
• Death in Service allowance to ensure your loved ones are provided for in the event of tragedy.
• Spend those crucial moments with your new-born baby with our enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave.
• Complimentary day of annual leave to cherish unmissable family moments – could be graduation, first day of school.
• Look after your wellbeing with access to a health and wellness program.
• Make the most of ‘Medicash Perks at Work’ – a tool for CitySprint colleagues to enjoy a variety of high-street discounts and rewards.
• Our ride to work scheme means you can keep fit while saving money – what’s not to like?

CitySprint is on a Fast track to become the UK’s leading courier services provider, with current market domination of the Same day service areas already.

Through regular investment in our people, our service offering and our customer proposition, we are paving the way for courier services to be more intuitive, more capable, and more responsive to our customers’ needs than ever before!

Being this awesome takes a lot of hard work and commitment to our company values and vision. So naturally we need to secure top-notch talent to ensure we continue growing and improving every day.

This is where YOU come in!

CitySprint has an exciting opportunity for a HR Business Partner.

As a HR Business Partner, you will be a senior HR professional responsible for delivering strategic and operational HR support across the organisation. Acting as a trusted advisor, the post holder will partner with functional leaders to implement the People Strategy through tailored functional people plans. This role is pivotal in driving organisational performance, fostering an inclusive culture, and enabling the growth and development of our people.

Main responsibilities within the HR Business Partner role:

• Build strong, influential relationships with senior leaders and managers to provide expert HR guidance and challenge where appropriate.
• Translate the overarching People Strategy into functional people plans with clear, measurable outcomes.
• Provide expert advice and coaching on all aspects of people management, including complex employee relations cases and formal processes (e.g., grievance, disciplinary).
• Collaborate with HR Centres of Excellence (Talent, Learning & Development, Reward) and other functional teams to deliver integrated people solutions.
• Analyse and interpret people data to identify trends and inform decision-making, including absence, turnover, and engagement metrics.
• Lead performance and talent initiatives in partnership with the Talent Team to build capability and succession pipelines.
• Support the design and delivery of learning and development interventions to enhance organisational capability.
• Drive key people process such as performance management, engagement activities, and organisational change initiatives.
• Champion colleague engagement, ensuring action plans are developed and implemented based on survey feedback.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate the following:

• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to challenge constructively.
• Data-driven approach with the ability to interpret, analyse, and present people metrics to inform decisions.
• Ability to translate HR strategy into actionable, measurable plans that drive business performance.
• Commitment to fostering an inclusive and engaging workplace culture.
• Proven experience as an HR Business Partner or senior HR generalist role, partnering with senior leaders.
• Excellent interpersonal, coaching, and communication skills.
• Strong understanding of employment legislation and HR best practice.
• Experience in leading change management initiatives across complex organisations.
• CIPD qualification or equivalent professional accreditation.

If this HR Business Partner role sounds like you, we really want to hear from you!

Additional information:

The successful candidate will be required to undergo a DBS check as part of the recruitment process. Conditional job offers are subject to a satisfactory DBS check.