HR Business Partner Commercial Function

Who we are

On July 1 2025 IPL Plastics merged with Schoeller Allibert to form IPL Schoeller (the company). Its operations are split across North America (11 manufacturing plants) The UK and Lommel (6 manufacturing plants) and Europe (9 manufacturing plants). The company is headquartered in Dublin Ireland. IPL Schoeller is a leading manufacturer of sustainable rigid packaging solutions across a range of end market segments including returnable transit packaging consumer and industrial packaging environmental containers and agricultural packaging. The company employs c.4100 employees across North America (1600 employees) and Europe (2500 employees).

The role

The HR Business Partner - Commercial will act as the strategic HR partner to the global Commercial function across IPL Schoeller supporting the organisation through a critical period of commercial transformation performance improvement and organisational evolution. The business is operating in a challenging market environment with pressure on sales growth requirement for margin performance customer retention and commercial effectiveness. This role will partner closely with Commercial leadership to ensure the organisation has the structure capability leadership accountability and performance culture required to stabilise and improve commercial results. This is not a traditional generalist HRBP role. The position requires a commercially credible data-driven and execution-focused HR leader who can operate effectively in a fast-paced PE-backed manufacturing environment undergoing significant transformation.

The role will support:

• Commercial organisational redesign

• Capability and talent assessment

• Performance and accountability improvement

• Sales leadership effectiveness

• Workforce productivity and cost optimisation

• Incentive and reward alignment

• Change management and organisational effectiveness

• Workforce planning and succession pipelines

The successful candidate must be comfortable operating in environments with ambiguity pace restructuring activity and high-performance expectations.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Commercial Partnership

• Act as trusted advisor to the VP Commercial and Commercial leadership teams globally

• Translate commercial strategy and business priorities into actionable people plans

• Support the business in improving commercial performance productivity and organisational effectiveness

Challenge and influence leaders constructively using data insight and commercial understanding

Commercial Transformation & Organisation Design

Support redesign of the commercial operating model where required

Assess organisational effectiveness role clarity spans and layers and decision-making effectiveness

Drive simplification accountability and alignment across commercial teams

Partner with leadership during restructuring integration and change initiatives

Support implementation of globally consistent job architecture and organisational design principles

Performance & Accountability

Drive a high-performance culture with clear accountability and measurable outcomes

Support leaders in managing performance effectively and consistently

Embed robust performance management practices linked to commercial outcomes

Use workforce and performance data to identify capability gaps and improvement opportunities

Talent Capability & Succession

Identify critical commercial capability gaps impacting business performance

Partner with leaders to strengthen succession pipelines and internal mobility

Support development of sales leadership capability and management effectiveness

Build practical development approaches focused on business outcomes and commercial impact

Reward & Workforce Planning

Partner with Reward to ensure incentive structures support desired commercial behaviours and business objectives

Support workforce planning aligned to revenue margin and growth priorities

Contribute to implementation of pay transparency and reward governance requirements

Ensure organisational decisions balance performance needs with cost discipline

Change Leadership & Employee Relations

Support delivery of complex transformation and change activity across the Commercial organisation

Lead organisational change activity in partnership with Legal and local HR teams where required

Ensure employee relations approaches are pragmatic commercially balanced and legally compliant

Support leaders through ambiguity organisational redesign and workforce changes

Data Metrics & Business Insight

Use HR and commercial data to drive decision-making and prioritisation

Support development of business-relevant people metrics linked to commercial outcomes

Monitor trends relating to turnover capability productivity engagement and organisational effectiveness

Drive evidence-based decision making rather than activity-based HR

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of five years experience in HR Business Partnering organisational effectiveness or transformation roles

• Strong track record supporting commercial sales or customer-facing functions

• Demonstrated experience operating within complex fast-paced multi-site or international organisations

• Proven ability to support transformation initiatives restructuring and performance improvement programmes

• Exposure to private equitybacked manufacturing industrial or matrixed environments is advantageous

• Well-developed understanding of organisational design workforce planning and performance management

• Proven capability to influence and engage senior stakeholders and leadership teams

• Applies a constructive and appropriately challenging perspective not solely a support role

• Outcome-focused with a commercially pragmatic and results-driven approach

If you have the above experience and are looking for a role where you can make a real difference apply today to find out more!