Candidate Overview
The candidate is a highly credible Senior HR Business Partner with 10+ years’ experience within large-scale logistics and operational environments, specialising in strategic HR partnering, organisational design, and change leadership.
They bring a strong track record of driving organisational effectiveness, workforce planning, and employee engagement, while managing complex employee relations and ensuring full compliance with UK employment legislation. Known for balancing commercial outcomes with people strategy, they play a key role in delivering sustainable performance improvements during periods of growth and transformation.
Core Expertise
- Strategic HR business partnering (site & operational leadership)
- Organisational design and workforce planning
- Talent management and succession planning
- Employee relations and complex case management
- HR strategy aligned to operational KPIs
- Stakeholder management at senior leadership level
- HR data, analytics and insight-driven decision making
- Engagement, retention and culture development
- HR systems (HRIS, ATS, payroll integration)
Selected Career Achievements
- Partnered with site leadership to deliver a major operational restructure impacting 300+ employees, improving workforce efficiency and aligning structure to business growth strategy.
- Reduced site attrition by 18% through targeted engagement initiatives, improved onboarding processes, and leadership capability development.
- Led annual talent and succession planning processes, increasing internal promotion rates by 25% and strengthening leadership pipeline across key operational roles.
- Improved performance management adoption and effectiveness, driving a more consistent performance culture and increasing completion rates to 95%+ across the site.
- Developed and embedded people analytics dashboards, providing leadership teams with real-time insights into absence, attrition, and performance trends.
Leadership Profile
A commercially aware and highly influential HR leader who operates as a true partner to operational leadership teams. Strong ability to challenge, coach, and support senior stakeholders while maintaining a pragmatic, solutions-focused approach to HR delivery. Experienced in driving cultural change within fast-paced, evolving environments—balancing employee engagement with business performance requirements.
Ideal Next Role
The candidate is seeking a Senior HR Business Partner role within a high-growth logistics or operational business where they can influence strategy, lead change initiatives, and strengthen organisational capability.
They are particularly well suited to environments experiencing growth, transformation, or operational scale-up, where strong HR leadership is critical to aligning people strategy with business performance.
Interested in learning more? Please contact Imagine Executive Solutions for a confidential discussion.