HR Business Partner

Who we are

VIVO provides facilities management and accommodation maintenance for the UK military and its partners. VIVO embodies both experience and innovation.

What we do

We put our Customers and Families First. They are the driving force behind everything we do. We drive forward improvements for them to ensure the service they receive, whether reactive repairs or a major project, is completed safely and on time. In order to achieve this, we have 4 core values: open, caring, agile and collaborative. These are at the heart of everything we do.

Location: Exeter, to cover Cornwall to Gloucester. Hybrid role

Permanent, Full time

Salary: £50,000 - £55,000

Are you an experienced HR professional who thrives on building strong relationships, solving people challenges and helping organisations get the very best from their people? Do you enjoy being close to the operation, influencing leaders and making a genuine difference to the employee experience?

VIVO Defence is looking for an enthusiastic and people-focused HR Business Partner to join our team and play a key role in supporting our people strategy across the South West. This is an exciting opportunity to become a trusted partner to operational leaders, helping them navigate the full employee lifecycle while contributing to the continued growth and development of our business.

As an HR Business Partner, you’ll work closely with site and operational leaders, providing practical, commercially focused HR advice and helping to embed great people management practices. You’ll build strong relationships across the business and work collaboratively with our HR Shared Services team to ensure managers and employees receive a consistent, high-quality HR service.

You’ll have the opportunity to get involved in a broad range of people activity, from recruitment and employee relations through to talent development, engagement, reward and organisational change. You’ll also take ownership of key people projects, including initiatives such as TUPE, restructures and change programmes, giving you the opportunity to make a real impact across a complex and evolving organisation.

This is a role where your ideas and expertise will be valued. You’ll help us continually improve the way we deliver HR, support cultural change and develop innovative people solutions that enable VIVO to deliver exceptional service to our customers. You’ll also play an important role in ensuring our people practices support our wider business objectives, helping us attract, develop and retain the talent we need for the future.

About You

You’ll be a confident and commercially aware HR professional with strong generalist experience and the ability to build trusted relationships with people at all levels. You’ll be comfortable operating in a fast-paced and sometimes complex environment, providing sound advice, challenging constructively and finding practical solutions to people-related issues.

You’ll bring strong experience across areas such as employee relations, recruitment, absence management, organisational change, restructuring, reward and salary benchmarking. Experience of TUPE and working within a complex or demanding organisation would be highly advantageous.

We’re looking for someone who can communicate clearly and confidently, influence effectively and work collaboratively with operational leaders, employees, HR colleagues and other stakeholders. You’ll be comfortable analysing information, producing concise reports and using data to support sound people decisions.

Ideally, you’ll be qualified to MCIPD level, with a degree or equivalent level of education and evidence of continued professional development. You’ll also be confident using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Most importantly, you’ll be someone who genuinely enjoys working with people. You’ll bring energy, resilience and a positive approach to change, while having the confidence to operate in ambiguity and take ownership of decisions. You’ll be motivated by finding better ways of working and by helping managers and teams achieve their full potential.

VIVO is delivering critical infrastructure, asset and facilities management services across the UK Defence sector, so this is an opportunity to join a business where your work has a real purpose. You’ll be part of a collaborative HR team and have the opportunity to influence how we continue to build our culture, develop our people and support the future growth of VIVO.

The role will involve regular travel to VIVO sites, primarily across the South West of England, so you’ll need to be comfortable being visible and connected to the operation.

If you’re ready to step into a HR Business Partner role where you can make a tangible difference, build strong partnerships and help shape the people agenda within a growing organisation, we’d love to hear from you.

What We Offer

• 6% employee matched pension contribution
• 25 days annual leave
• Bonus
• Company car/Car allowance
• Private medical cover for self and partner
• Life assurance 2x annual salary

VIVO Defence Services

The role you have applied for is with VIVO Defence Services, a joint venture between Serco and EQUANS. By applying for this role, please be aware that information contained within your CV may be shared between VIVO Defence Services, Serco and EQUANS during the recruitment process.

At VIVO, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. Therefore, we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool.

We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working and operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly a Disability Confident Leader. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.