HR Business Partner

Watford, England, United Kingdom

6/30/2025

Description And Requirements

Join our Building Services team as an HR Business Partner. You will partner with the FM project management teams and lead the implementation of the people plan. Coaching line managers to take accountability and ensure the highest levels of people engagement and performance. Practitioner and account manager for all HR matters, working with shared specialist resources utilising the ‘one Skanska’ philosophy.

What you’ll do:

• Demonstrate role modelling of, and be ambassador for, strategic HR business partnering across your areas.
• Develop a thorough understanding of how the FM projects are commercially viable and add value through people related activities. Utilise people data to measure and improve project performance.
• Develop robust stakeholder relationships with managers and gain their respect to be able to influence decision making.
• Lead resource forecasting for your dedicated areas to understand future requirements and implement strategies to address.
• Work in collaboration with the Resourcing team to offer robust governance and benchmarking to support an effective recruitment process.
• Manage employee relations matters effectively to promote a high-performance culture.
• Support the HR Director to execute all annual HR activities effectively.
• Drive sector talent review processes, and work with operational teams to ensure robust succession plans are in place for key roles across multiple time horizons.
• Ensure that talent is identified, developed and retained.
• Effectively champion the engagement survey and outputs to leverage engagement levels across the sector and work with Directors and project leaders on areas which require intervention.
  
  

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Proven delivery in the key areas of generalist HR including business partnering experience, improving business performance through people strategies.
• Experience of successful talent development strategies, and leading diversity & inclusion initiatives.
• A thorough and up to date knowledge of employment law, and experience of practical application of this in a complex business environment, across operative and staff populations
• Strong interpersonal skills and excellent spoken and written communication skills
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills with a track record of building credible relationships.
• Able to work as part of a team; demonstrates the ability to network effectively up, down and across the business
• Aspirations to develop your career to HR Leadership Team level
• MCIPD qualified is desirable
• Ability to gain MOD Security Clearance
  
  

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

Flexible working

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using [email protected] if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More Information About The Role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: [email protected]

Closing date

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business