Senior HR Business Partner

Location: Northampton
Salary: £55,000 - £60,000
Job Type: Perm
Sector: Human Resources
Date Posted: 31 March 2026
Reference: 55333

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Sundeep Kaur

Sundeep Kaur

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About The Role

  • Perm
  • Northampton
  • £55,000 - £60,000 GBP / Year

The One Group

The ONE Group are partnering exclusively with a well-established, rapidly evolving operational business to recruit a Senior HR Business Partner.

This is a key, site-based role working closely with a senior leadership team, where you will play a central part in shaping both the people strategy and operational delivery.

This position will suit someone who enjoys being embedded within the business influencing at a senior level while remaining hands-on, particularly across Employee Relations and workforce challenges.

The Role

Acting as a true business partner to senior stakeholders, you will:

  • Align people strategy with operational and commercial objectives, ensuring HR is embedded within day-to-day business decision making

  • Provide clear, pragmatic HR guidance across organisational design, workforce planning, and business change initiatives

  • Lead on complex Employee Relations matters end-to-end, including disciplinaries, grievances, absence management and performance issues

  • Act as an escalation point for high-risk or sensitive ER cases, balancing commercial outcomes with legal compliance

  • Coach, challenge and upskill managers to improve capability and confidence in handling people matters

  • Drive a high-performance culture through effective performance management frameworks and leadership support

  • Partner with leadership to identify capability gaps, building targeted development and succession plans

  • Support workforce planning activity, including headcount modelling, peak planning and resource optimisation

  • Lead and deliver organisational change initiatives, including restructures, transformations and changes to operating models

  • Assess organisational readiness for change, identifying risks, resistance and capability gaps, and implementing mitigation plans

  • Develop and deliver clear communication plans to support engagement and adoption of change across the workforce

  • Use HR data and insight (e.g. attrition, absence, engagement, productivity) to identify trends and influence decision making

  • Drive initiatives to improve retention, engagement and overall workforce effectiveness

  • Partner closely with internal stakeholders to ensure HR delivery is aligned, realistic and commercially focused

  • Ensure all HR activity is compliant with UK employment legislation and internal policies

  • Build strong, credible relationships across the site, acting as a visible and trusted HR presence within the operation

About You

We are looking for a commercially minded HR professional who is confident operating in a fast-paced, operational environment.

You will bring:

  • Experience at Senior HRBP / HRBP / HR Manager level within logistics, supply chain or a similar operational setting

  • Strong Employee Relations expertise, with the confidence to manage complex casework end-to-end

  • Experience working within high-volume, multi-site environments

  • Ability to influence and partner effectively with senior operational stakeholders

  • A pragmatic, commercially focused approach to HR

  • Strong knowledge of UK employment legislation

  • CIPD Level 5+ (or equivalent experience)

Why Apply?

  • Opportunity to join a business in a strong growth and transformation phase

  • High visibility role with direct impact on operational performance

  • A genuine blend of strategic influence and hands-on delivery

  • Autonomy to shape the HR approach within your business area

If this role sounds right please click apply or please contact Sundeep at The One Group

To apply for this job email your details to skaur@theonegroup.co.uk

About The ONE Group

The ONE Group is a specialist recruitment consultancy with offices in Cambridge, Peterborough, Northampton, and Hertfordshire.

We recruit across Technology, Engineering & Manufacturing, Scientific, Sales, and Marketing, with consultants who specialise in their sector rather than trying to cover everything. This focused approach allows us to provide deeper market knowledge, stronger networks, and better hiring outcomes for both clients and candidates.

Our expertise spans permanent, contract, and senior-level appointments. Most importantly, the majority of our business comes from repeat clients and referrals, reflecting the long-term relationships we build and the trust we earn through consistently delivering results.

What Happens Next

1

One of our consultants will review your application within one working day.

2

If your experience looks like a fit, we'll be in touch for a quick conversation to understand what you're looking for.

3

From there, we'll talk you through the role properly, prepare you for interview, and stay alongside you through to your start date.

4

Whatever happens with this role, we'll keep your details on file, with your permission, so we can flag other opportunities that suit you.

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THE ONE GROUP

Where we're from,
and how we got here

Twenty years of specialist recruitment in the East – and a lot of small decisions that added up.

TOG started in Peterborough in 2004 with a small team and a simple idea: that recruitment is a people business, done best by specialists who stay in their sector long enough to know it properly.

More than two decades on, we've grown into four offices across the East of England and Home Counties. We recruit for finance leaders, HR directors, engineering managers, tech founders, scientists, and the commercial teams that keep businesses running day to day. Between us, we've built up over 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of more than 150,000 candidates we've placed, coached, or come to know across two decades in the region.

The founding principle hasn't changed. Recruitment as it should be.

OUR STORY

Key events timeline

2004

Doors open in Peterborough.

Our first office launches with a team of six on Lynch Wood. Cambridge follows the same year, giving us two offices before our first anniversary.

2015

Northampton makes it three.

Our third office opens with a team of five, quickly growing to eleven consultants covering the wider Midlands region.

2017

Peterborough moves across the road.

The team has outgrown the founding office. We move into Arena House on Lynch Wood, big enough for a growing consultant base and the back-office team that supports the whole group.

2018

Cambridge moves too.

Our second office relocates to Cambourne Business Park, giving the growing Cambridge team the space it now needs.

2023

Four offices, three counties, one very good year.

The Hertfordshire & Essex office opens in Potters Bar, extending our footprint into the Home Counties.

In the same year, we're named Business of the Year in Northamptonshire, and Employer of the Year in both Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire at the regional SME Business Awards. Three counties, three panels.

TODAY

Still growing.

Four offices, more than 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of over 150,000 candidates.

Same founding principle.

SPECIALISTS BY DESIGN

What we do

We're specialists, not generalists. Every consultant at TOG focuses on one sector and stays in it. Not because it's the only way to do recruitment, but because it's how you build the depth to spot the difference between a strong CV and a strong hire.

It's also why so many of our clients come back to us years, even decades, after a first placement.

01
Accountancy & Finance
→
 02
Human Resources
→
 03
Commercial Office
Administration, customer service, project management and more
→
 04
Technology
→
 05
Engineering & Manufacturing
→
 06
Scientific
→
 07
Sales, Marketing & Creative
→
 08
Executive Search
Across all of the above
→

Beyond the recruitment itself, we produce annual salary guides, regional market reports, and the practical resources our clients and candidates turn to when they want a clearer view of what's happening in their sector.

THE WAY WE WORK

How we work

Four principles show up in every conversation and every process.
01

Be curious.

We stay interested in the market we work in, and in the people who work in it.

02

Keep it human.

We remember your kids' names and know how you take your coffee. That's just how we work here.

03

Make a difference.

We're here to help people build careers they love and businesses they're proud of.

04

Enjoy the ride.

Recruitment is a career, but it should be fun too. If it isn't, we've done something wrong.

WHAT COMES NEXT?

Recruitment
as it should be.

Hire with TOG → Looking for a role →
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