HR Business Partner
Are you ready to take ownership of a pivotal HR role that will shape the people strategy for an entire site and make a tangible impact on the business?
Do you have the leadership skills and strategic mindset to build strong relationships, influence key stakeholders, and drive meaningful change in a fast-paced environment?
Can you envision yourself thriving in a collaborative, on-site role, leading a team, and aligning HR initiatives with both site and regional priorities?
MacGregor Black are partnering with a FMCG manufacturing business on the search for a HR Business Partner. This is a permanent role based in Cumbria.
This position plays a vital role in our enhanced HR business partnering model. Your primary focus will be to provide HR leadership and business partnering expertise at the Carlisle site. By working closely with the site leadership team, management, and the broader UK&I HR function, you’ll ensure HR initiatives align with site-specific goals and regional HR priorities.
As an integral member of the site leadership team, you’ll build strong, credible relationships while helping to set direction, shape strategy, and develop the site’s people-focused plans.
Key responsibilities
* Own the HR agenda for site in line with agreed functional agendas.
* Work in partnership with senior leaders and senior managers on establishing and implementing solutions that support the ongoing development of leadership capability and provide mentorship support to the wider management team on people-related matters.
* Work with leadership teams to identify key areas impacting upon business performance such as functional capability or engagement levels.
* Provide the vital link to other teams within the wider HR function as required, including Recruitment, Central Engagement, Central L&D, Employee Relations, Occupational Health & Wellbeing, HR Shared Services.
* Drive forward & manage the creation of site people plans that are fully aligned to site strategic priorities and wider HR priorities, ensuring full integration of the HR agenda for the site, including engagement and site-driven L&D priorities.
* Build solid relationships with site trade union teams that champion positive employee relations across the site and partner with the Factory General Manager on ongoing engagement with the site trade unions.
* Own the site trade union consultation and negotiations, to include site reorganisations and pay negotiations, and working agreement reviews.
* Lead resolution of sophisticated function or site-wide employee relations matters (including site-wide), in partnership with site senior management and apply employment law expertise to situations which require a balanced risk assessment.
* Maintain close links with other HR Business Partners across the UK&I to ensure consistency of HR practices.
* Partner with the Site Lead on creation of future-facing site change plans including organisation design, planning (including impact assessment, risk assessment, and mitigation planning) and implementation of changes, and wider team member engagement of proposals.
* As required, lead UK-wide Supply Chain HR people initiatives as part of role SC-wide change projects, align and coordinate the activities of other members of the HRBP team in these.
* Deputise for Head of SC HR, assuming an active role with the UK HRLT as required.
What are we looking for?
* Strong communication skills with the ability to engage, influence and empower a variety of team members at a senior level plus trade union representatives and officials at various levels.
* Previous experience of working in a fast-moving HR environment with strong and associated understanding of interconnections/drivers of Employee Engagement/Employee Life Cycle.
* Previous experience in leading the development of medium to long-term people plans linked to strategy and site priorities.
* A track record in leading people/organisational change from development to implementation.
* Experience of having developed people plans linked to strategy in collaboration with senior management.
* Experience of identifying and implementing improvements/solutions to people practices at a site level.
* A background of having experience of key employee relations matters – D&G, Absence Management disputes.
* Experience of working closely with site Trade Unions or representatives on employee relations matters.
* Passion and drive to empower and engage colleagues to make a real difference to the business.
* Builds respected, trusted and supportive relationships.
* Strong planning, project management and organisational skills, with the ability to work flexibly to ensure the efficient and successful delivery of the site people plan.
* A personal desire to continuously learn and develop to ensure new practices and thinking are understood and embraced.
* Able to demonstrate sound interpretation, understanding and application of employment law, case law and associated best practices.
* Experience of problem solving, prioritisation and decision making in pressurised/time-critical environments.
Salary up to £70k + benefits.
Please contact Alice Redmond for more information today.
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