Job Description

General information

City/town:

London, Watford

Job field:

Business Support and IT

External closing date:

Saturday, November 29, 2025

Type of contract:

Fixed term

ID:

5619

Description and requirements

As the HR Business Partner you will partner with the Building leadership team, including Divisional Directors, Commercial and Pre-construction Directors, and Project Management teams, to lead the successful delivery of the people strategy.


You will coach and empower line managers to take ownership of people-related matters, fostering high levels of engagement and performance across the Operating Unit. As both a practitioner and account manager for all HR activities, you will collaborate with shared specialist resources, embodying the 'One Skanska' philosophy to deliver integrated and effective HR solutions

What you'll do:

Demonstrate role modelling of, and be ambassador for, HR business partnering across the Operating Unit. Develop a thorough understanding of how the Operating Unit projects are commercially viable and add value through people related activities. Utilise people data to measure and improve project performance. Develop robust relationships with leaders and gain their respect to be able to influence decision making. Support the HR Director with resource forecasting for the Operating Unit to understand future requirements and implement strategies to address. Drive the Operating Unit talent review processes, and work with leaders 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 Operating Unit engagement survey and outputs to leverage engagement levels and work with leaders on areas which require intervention. Actively support and work within the HR Service Delivery model, in partnership with HR specialist functions

What you'll bring to the role:

Proven delivery in the key areas of generalist HR including business partnering experience, coaching senior leaders and line managers through people related matters. A thorough and up to date knowledge of employment law, and experience of practical application of this in a complex business environment Strong interpersonal skills and excellent spoken and written communication skills Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills with a track record of building credible relationships. Resilient - able to face challenges proactively and comfortable dealing with senior management of the organisation. Able to work as part of a team; demonstrates the ability to network effectively up, down and across the business. MCIPD qualified is desirable

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

recruitment@skanska.co.uk

or call 0330 105 2000 - Option 5 & 1, 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:

recruitment@skanska.co.uk

Closing date

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

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