An exciting opportunity has arisen for a People Partner to join our client, a leading global FMCG company with brands such as Dove, Knorr, Persil & Magnum. The position is based at our client's Research & Development facility at Colworth Science Park, in Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire (MK44), accessible by car.
This is a full-time temporary role for 12 months, requiring 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Compensation for this role is competitive, paying up to £42,000 per annum, pro rata, depending upon experience.
JOB PURPOSE
You will be part of the People Experience team - this group of colleagues strives to create and deliver slick processes for every employee journey. Your interactions with employees in your business function will ensure they feel valued, heard, and given the right resources and support they need during the most important moments of their careers (and in some instances, such as family leave, during their lives!). You will also partner with leaders in the management of their people and associated ER matters, ensuring compliance with all relevant employment legislation and consistent application of all relevant HR policies and practices, with a passion for upholding U/L's people standards and business principles.
RESPONSIBILITIES
From an Employee Relations and UK employment law perspective, the People Partner plays a leading role in the management of ER casework activity and driving employee relations strategies. As the dedicated People Partner for your assigned business area, you will:
1. Support line managers with all ER casework activity, ensuring compliance and correct interpretation of all relevant employment legislation, HR policies, and practices, serving as the first point of contact for employees and line managers for such matters.
2. Ensure that HR policies, practices, and programmes are consistently applied across UK client groups and the Company.
3. Provide operational support and guidance on matters relating to performance improvement, disciplinary, grievance, absence management, family leave, flexible working, collective and individual consultation, redundancy processes, etc. Your support can be very hands-on, writing scripts, collating investigation reports, and writing outcome letters to support cases through to completion.
4. Play a key role in upholding U/L's standards of behaviour, conduct, performance, and the company's code of business principles, and assisting with the resolution of conflict or disputes.
5. Contribute to creating a positive work environment by instilling confidence in our Managers and Employees that they are unbiased and neutral in facilitating resolutions to issues and concerns.
6. Take a proactive, strategic approach to ER by identifying ER trends, coaching Line Managers, and recommending solutions that address the root cause of issues, and taking actions you feel are the right steps to tackle problems before they grow.
7. Own the end-to-end employee cycle - partnering with line managers and acting as a single point of contact for employees in your function area, through key career moments such as onboarding, role moves locally and globally, career growth, parental leave, time off, exit, etc.
8. Provide coaching and support to line managers in employee experience. Empower our employees to be the best version of themselves.
9. Support the Local HR Strategic People Agenda: Work with HRBPs and Leaders to create and deliver project plans for managing any change programmes and reorganisations.
ALL ABOUT YOU
You will have extensive experience in employee relations and case management. You will have an advanced knowledge of UK employment laws and best practices in ER casework activity, and an ability to apply these to the nuances of internal HR policies. You will have great attention to detail, a passion for delivering great customer experience, and a continuous improvement mindset. You will be experienced in handling sensitive matters with tact and diplomacy, comfortable having difficult conversations, and working professionally and discreetly with sensitive information. Both the what and the how are important to us - explaining requirements/processes is key, but first comes the critical step of gaining buy-in from your stakeholders. Therefore, you'll have strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, building strong relationships with trust & confidence, as well as having the ability to influence.
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