Job Description

Interim Human Resources Business Partner
£43k – £65k a year
PCD300118

Are you ready to step into a true business partnering role – one where you’ll shape culture, influence leaders, and drive people strategy on the ground?
Can you balance hands-on HR delivery with strategic thinking in a fast-paced, evolving manufacturing environment?
Do you have the confidence to challenge senior stakeholders and the empathy to support and develop a growing HR team?
The organisation is partnering with a Global Manufacturing FMCG business on the search for an Interim HR Business Partner. This role is based in West Midlands.

Key Responsibilities
• Act as the first point of escalation for complex ER cases, providing expert, pragmatic advice and ensuring compliance with company policy and employment law.
• Mentor and develop two onsite HR Advisors, building their confidence and professional capability.
• Partner with site leadership to influence people decisions, challenge constructively, and shape a positive, high-performance culture.
• Ensure HR policies, processes, and practices are consistent, compliant, and commercially aligned.
• Support the HR Manager with all aspects of HR delivery for a headcount of approximately 650 colleagues across a busy manufacturing site.
• Lead or contribute to initiatives that drive employee engagement, talent development, workforce planning, and retention.
• Provide credible HR leadership in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment, ensuring HR delivers real business value.
What are we looking for?
• Bring broad HR generalist experience, ideally from a manufacturing, FMCG, or fast-moving operational setting.
• Have strong employee relations expertise, able to manage complex cases with confidence and balance.
• Demonstrate credibility and resilience when partnering with senior stakeholders – comfortable challenging, influencing, and shaping decisions.
• Thrive in a dynamic, high-volume environment, where structure and processes are evolving.
• Enjoy developing others, with proven experience supporting or leading a small HR team.
Salary £54k plus benefits