Senior HRBP

Title: Senior HR Business Partner

Reports to: HR Director EMEA

Droitwich Spa: Onsite Monday-Friday on site presence

Imagine working at the forefront of innovation in fluid-flow technology, with over 1,400 colleagues across the globe, and contributing to a legacy of excellence that spans eight manufacturing facilities on four continents. Armstrong Fluid Technology is more than just a leader in our industry; we are a community of the brightest and most creative minds, driven by a shared mission to engineer the future and safeguard our planet.

At Armstrong Fluid Technology you'll be immersed in an environment that fosters growth, creativity, and collaboration. As a senior member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to push boundaries, tackle exciting challenges, and develop cutting-edge solutions that promote energy efficiency and reduce environmental impact. Every day offers the chance to make a meaningful contribution to a more sustainable future, driving innovations that help lower global carbon footprints. Together, we’re creating a legacy that goes beyond business - one that’s changing the world for the better.

The Senior HRBP is a highly strategic and commercial role partnering with senior leaders across complex, asset-intensive and high-reliability environments, including data centres, manufacturing, engineering and critical infrastructure operations. This role operates autonomously with the accountability extending beyond HR delivery into workforce strategy, organisational design, and transformation execution within a high-reliability, asset-intensive manufacturing environment.

This role combines strategic HR business partnering, organisational development, HR transformation, and change leadership, with accountability for shaping and embedding operating models, workforce structures, and culture in fast-scaling and operationally critical environments. This role is based in Droitwich.

Key Accountabilities

1. Strategic HR Business Partnering

Act as a core member of the Droitwich site senior leadership team, contributing to business strategy, operational planning, and investment decisions

Own and deliver the site-level people strategy, aligned to business KPIs such as productivity, efficiency, quality, and cost

Provide strategic advice to senior leaders on organisational effectiveness, workforce risks, and capability gaps

Translate commercial and operational plans into multi-year workforce and capability strategies

Operate effectively within a complex and matrix global organisation

2. Organisational Development & Operating Model Design

Contribute to the design of new operating models and workforce structures, and lead and have overall accountability for the implementation of them

Drive organisational design, restructuring, and workforce planning aligned to business transformation and scaling needs

Diagnose organisational effectiveness issues and implement targeted OD interventions

Support build-out and optimisation of greenfield or scaling data centre and manufacturing operations

Facilitate leadership alignment, team effectiveness, and ways-of-working design

3. Transformation & Change Leadership

Own and lead large-scale transformation initiatives, including manufacturing optimisation, operating model changes, and workforce restructuring

Develop and execute end-to-end transformation roadmaps, aligned to business and financial objectives

Be accountable for change adoption, business readiness, and sustainability of outcomes

Apply structured change methodologies, ensuring disciplined execution and measurable impact

4. Change Management & Transformation Delivery

Act as HR Lead on transformation and change initiatives across operational and corporate environments

Apply structured change management methodologies (e.g. stakeholder mapping, impact assessments, readiness assessments, communication planning)

Develop and facilitate the execution of end-to-end change strategies ensuring adoption and sustainability

Coach leaders and managers, and oversee the support provided to them by HR Business Partners, through complex change, including restructuring and cultural transformation

Support high-velocity change in environments such as data centre expansion and manufacturing optimisation

Develop strategic transformation roadmaps and project plans aligned with business vision

Ensure people processes, system and compliance are integrated into change efforts

5. Workforce, Talent, Performance & Capability

Partner with Finance and Operations to align people decisions with P&L outcomes

Provide insight and recommendations on:

Workforce capacity and utilisation

Shift models and coverage strategies

Automation vs labour trade-offs

Support business decisions balancing people investment with operational efficiency

Own the site-wide talent strategy, including succession planning for critical roles

Develop and lead the implementation of performance management frameworks aligned to operational excellence and accountability

Support leadership development and build capability in technical, operational, and engineering populations

Enable workforce planning aligned to automation, scaling, and productivity improvement

Support the development of HR Business Partners

6. Culture & Engagement

Lead and oversee the implementation of employee engagement strategy, surveys and action planning

Drive a high-performance, inclusive, and values-led culture across operational sites

Coach leaders on engagement, employee relations, and team effectiveness

7. HR Advisory, Employee Relations & Industrial Relations

Provide expert HR guidance on complex employee relations matters and act as site HR lead

HR Site Lead for industrial relations (where applicable) and delegation of the handling of employee relations issues and the facilitation of conflict resolution to HR Business Partners (as appropriate)

Lead on and have overall oversight of compliance with employment legislation and internal governance standards

Support risk management and resolution of sensitive or high-impact people issues

8. Commercial & Operational Acumen

HR Site lead on supporting business priorities in capex-intensive and operationally critical environments

HR Site lead on to workforce cost optimisation, productivity improvement, and operational efficiency initiatives

Support decision-making that balances people investment with operational and financial outcomes

HR Site lead on shift patterns, coverage models, and technical workforce structures

What We’re Looking For

To thrive in this role, you should bring:

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, or related field (MBA preferred)

MA HRM CIPD Level 7 - essential

Chartered FCIPD - essential

Significant experience in Senior HR Business Partner or equivalent strategic senior HR leadership role

Proven experience within data centres, manufacturing, industrial operations, or other critical/high-uptime environments

Strong experience in both manufacturing and data centre environments

Experience contributing to workforce structuring in scaling or restructuring environments

Substantial hands-on experience with structured change management methodologies and tools

Experience working in global or multi-site, matrixed organisations

Substantial exposure to industrial relations

Substantial experience in managing teams

Strong commercial acumen and understanding of operational drivers in asset-intensive businesses

Skills

Strategic thinking and strong business acumen

Advanced stakeholder management and influencing at senior leadership level

Organisational design and workforce planning expertise

Deep change management capability and transformation delivery experience

Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making capability

Excellent facilitation, coaching, and communication skills

High emotional intelligence and resilience

Ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-paced, and evolving environments

Understanding of high-reliability and operational environments

Proven ability to work autonomously

Why Armstrong Fluid Technology?

By joining us, you’ll become part of a global community dedicated to pushing the boundaries of fluid-flow technology while upholding Armstrong's commitment to sustainability. You’ll have endless opportunities to learn, grow, and make a significant impact on the world. Together, we'll build tomorrow’s solutions today.