People Business Manager

Location

Worcester, Worcestershire | United Kingdom

Job description

Sanctuary is one of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and community services. With around 13,000 employees, we maintain a culture where diversity is valued and talent is nurtured and rewarded.

People Business Manager

Worcester based with a balance of home and office working with frequent travel

£63,196 - £66,522 per year p lus Company Car or Car Allowance

35 hours per week

Acting as an integral member of People Services you will be responsible for the development and delivery of the Group’s HR strategy, in support of Group business objectives across our operations within our Affordable Housing and Property Services teams. As an expert within your field you will use your knowledge and experience to lead on specialist HR issues and implement effective solutions with the aim of limiting risk to the business and supporting business growth.

This is a great opportunity to join a high performing team to make a significant contribution to business success and development of HR practice and will offer a proven HR professional the opportunity to develop within a forward thinking organisation.

The role of People Business Manager will include:

• Ensuring the consistent delivery of employment advice and effective project management of complex HR projects
• Providing advice, clear guidance and support on a range of complex employee relations cases including taking the lead on employment tribunals
• Planning, managing and implementing special programmes and projects in support of the Group’s activities, including implementation of mergers and TUPE transfers
• Developing and monitoring an employee relations framework to assist the HR department to deliver quality, expert HR advice and guidance

Skills and experiences:

• A chartered member of the CIPD (or equivalent) you will be skilled at developing and delivering HR strategy and employee relations frameworks
• Proven experience of undertaking a similar role with a variety of complex employee relations issues including managing complex HR projects such as acquisitions, mergers, TUPE transfers and organisational change
• Proven experience of process improvements and developing best practice within a HR function
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships
• Based in Worcester the role will require frequent national travel so a full, current driving licence is required

Why work for us?

One of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and commercial services, Sanctuary employs more than 14,000 people and manages over 116,000 units of accommodation throughout England and Scotland, including general rented, retirement living, supported housing, student and key worker accommodation and care homes. Sanctuary also provides a range of other services including maintenance, care and telecare, all of which are delivered by our dedicated employees who are completely committed to customer service.

Our Benefits

As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:

• 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays
• A pension scheme with matching employer contributions from Sanctuary up to set limits
• Life Assurance
• Employee Volunteering scheme
• Employee Advice Service including counselling
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Voluntary health plans
• Employee discounts
• Wellbeing support and tools
• Employee recognition scheme
• Employee platform to access your reward and wellbeing package online, find exclusive discounts, wellbeing resources and recognition tools
• £63,196 per annum (rising to £66,522 per annum after 12 months, subject to satisfactory performance)

Closing Date: 24 March 2024

We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.

‘For an insight into what it’s like to work for us, take a look at #LifeatSanctuary on Twitter’

Building Equality and Diversity

Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers. 
We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent unlawful working.
Sanctuary Group is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association, an exempt charity.

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