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Role Description
Are you a HR Assistant/ HR Advisor looking to progress your career or to progress into an Advisory role? Princes Long Sutton are recruiting for a HR Advisor to join their established HR team. Long Sutton is one of the UK’s most critical food manufacturing hubs. Following an £80m site investment, we are in a period of unprecedented transformation.
Job Purpose
Maintain full knowledge of site and group policies and procedures, terms and conditions, employment law and HR best practice. Providing advice and support to People Managers and employees on a day to day operational issues ensuring fairness and consistency is applied at all times. Support the site leadership and HR teams to deliver the site and people strategies in line with Operational Business Plans and Operating Frameworks.
Dimensions
- Headcount circa 450-550 permanent staff and approx. 100 agency staff.
- Deputise for the HRBP and HR Advisor colleague in their absence.
Working Hours
Monday - Friday 08.45-17.00 with x1 day a week from home (subject to business needs)
Benefits
- 25 Days Annual Leave plus Birthday off
- 14.5% Pension – 5% employee opt in / 9.5% employer
- Flexible Holiday Option - Buy 5 Additional Days
- Enhanced Family Friendly & Carers Policies
- Critical Illness Cover
- Learning & Development Opportunities
Principle Accountabilities
- Provide HR support to managers in relation to employee relations, ensuring a HR presence throughout the relevant stages of the procedures.
- Work closely with our centralised specialist functions such as People Services, Talent Acquisition, and Learning & Development to deliver site and group people strategies.
- Driving delivery of key metrics, such as labour, absence, turnover and retention performance indicators.
- Provide advice on complex employee relations issues in accordance with company policies and procedures.
- Lead management of casework relating to sickness absence. This includes making recommendations, giving advice and support to managers, liaising with Occupational Health, case review meetings and capability due to ill-health.
- Support a seamless recruitment process for ungraded employees with particular focus on onboarding and immersion. Provide assistance with interviews as and when needed.
- Support the HRBP to ensure all employee and trade union relations is dealt with effectively and in accordance with legislation, policies and procedures; minimising and reducing risk and exposure factors to the business.
- Ensure all HR Systems are maintained and kept up to date with accurate information.
- Handle personal data and information in a professional manner ensuring compliance with data protection and confidentiality.
- Support SEDEX and Customer specific reporting and compliance appropriately and be a key contributor in site SMETA and other ethical audits.
- Coordinate and support engagement plan activity.
- Participate/own HR project work and objectives while supporting improvement activities across the site.
- Attend and contribute in daily operational meetings.
- Act as the 5S Champion for the HR area.
- At all times give due consideration to Safety, Environmental & Food Quality procedures.
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Role Requirements
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Knowledge
- Minimum 3-5 years generalist HR Assistant / Advisory level
- Experience of working within an FMCG environment
- CIPD qualified or relevant experience
Skills
- Ability to build effective internal relationships with customers is critical.
- Effective communication and IT Skills.
- Experience of operating in a HR Business Partner style environment
- Able to demonstrate tenacity and have a flexible attitude and approach.
- Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines and work under pressure.
- Ability to operate flexibly in a constantly changing environment.
Please note the internal job title is HR Advisor - this is for advertising purposes.
Country: United Kingdom
Location: Long Sutton
Business Area: Human Resources
Workplace Type: Hybrid
About Princes
The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.
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