Senior People Partner at EMR in Warrington, England, GB

What we offer:

Everything must recycle. It’s what we stand for.

Together we turn today’s materials into tomorrow’s possibilities. Today’s old into tomorrow’s new. Used to useful. Waste into something worthwhile. You could be at the centre of change that will be felt for generations to come, keeping valuable resources in circulation and helping to make circular materials the standard for global industry.

Work this important deserves proper pay and proper benefits.

• Competitive pay rates and a bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus option to buy or sell
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Employee support - including life assurance and critical illness pay
• Wellbeing scheme - giving colleagues and dependents unlimited access to GPs and counselling, and cash back on health and wellbeing
• 24/7 anonymous health and wellbeing advice
• Financial support - including affordable loans, savings plans, advanced earned pay and education
• Money off shopping, utilities, entertainment and more
• Cycle 2 work scheme
• Get stuck in but never get stuck – ongoing training and development plans tailored to how you want to progress

Applying to a new job is a big decision – even when the company you’re applying to has been voted a Great Place to Work for four years running and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in Manufacturing, Production and Transportation.

About Our Opportunity
We’re looking for a Senior People Partner to work alongside senior business leaders, shaping and delivering the people agenda to support business performance and long-term organisational capability.
This is a genuinely strategic partnering role, with broad responsibility across organisational effectiveness, leadership capability, talent, succession, workforce planning, engagement and change.
You’ll combine a strong understanding of the business with people insight and expertise to identify priorities, challenge thinking and develop practical solutions that deliver measurable outcomes.
Working as part of our wider People team, you’ll also manage a People Advisor while partnering closely with colleagues across People Capability, Resourcing and People Services.
What You Will Be Doing
You’ll act as a trusted partner and coach to senior leaders, helping them build high-performing teams, strengthen leadership capability and translate business priorities into effective people and workforce plans.
You’ll lead organisational design and effectiveness activity, ensuring structures, capabilities and ways of working support both current performance and future business requirements.
You’ll also provide people leadership through business transformation and change, constructively challenging leaders and helping embed sustainable improvements.Talent will be a significant part of your role.
You’ll work with leaders to identify, develop and retain talent, strengthen succession pipelines and create opportunities for career development and internal mobility.
You’ll help embed meaningful performance conversations and ensure leaders are equipped to get the best from their people.
You’ll use workforce and business data to identify emerging risks and opportunities, developing strategic workforce plans and measuring their impact. Alongside this, you’ll help shape engagement and culture plans, supporting the development of an inclusive, accountable and high-performing organisation.
About You
You’re an experienced Senior People Partner or HR professional with a strong commercial mindset and significant experience partnering senior leaders within a large, complex organisation.
You’ll bring strong capability across organisational design, talent and succession, workforce planning and organisational change, alongside the confidence to coach, influence and constructively challenge senior stakeholders.
You’re comfortable using data and insight to inform decisions and can connect people priorities directly to business performance.CIPD qualified or equivalent, you’ll combine strategic thinking with a pragmatic, hands-on approach.
You’re curious, collaborative and accountable, with the judgement to prioritise what matters and the confidence to challenge established thinking when there is a better way forward.
A full UK driving licence is required, with regular UK travel and occasional overnight stays.

Who we are:

The products we’ll all need tomorrow depend on us making the most of today’s end-of-life metals, plastics and other materials.

Take a car at the end of its life - most people just see a…car at the end of its life.

We see steel, aluminium, copper, plastics, rubber, glass, parts, fluids, costs, risks, markets and – most importantly - possibilities.

Now, multiply that by thousands of cars – we recover, reuse and recycle all those valuable materials and put them back to work as low-carbon materials for manufacturing, infrastructure, energy and transport.

And that’s just one thing we recycle. Add buildings, factories, ships, railways and industrial equipment. That’s all our hard work – the gritty, practical, commercial, difficult work our 4,000 global colleagues do every day.

Anything from a can to an aircraft carrier can become anything from a bicycle to a building and, at the same time, we help to avoid 19 million tonnes of carbon and 10 million tonnes of waste to landfill, protecting nature, resources and the next generation’s future.

Which is all well and good for us to say, but this is what the real people behind the really hard work think:

“The people who work here are from varied backgrounds and have a variety of beliefs, all of which are accepted and respected.”

“I’m encouraged to keep a healthy work-life balance so that I can be performing at my best.”

“I’ve been supported every step of the way in my career progression.”

‘‘EMR offers a fantastic and inclusive environment; collaboration across the whole business, humility and hard work.”

Four years as a certified Great Place To Work is no small feat. Oh, and don’t forget one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in Manufacturing, Production and Transportation. That’s pretty good too.

But we can do better. We’re aiming for a place in the top 60 companies in the UK – not for the accolade but for the improvement. A journey you should probably join us for.

If you want to be part of something bigger than yourself, have a role that really makes a difference and work with likeminded people towards the same purpose, this is the role for you.

Recruitment Agencies
We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List (PSL) and do not accept speculative CVs. Any unsolicited CVs, whether related to a specific position or submitted speculatively, will not be considered.