pladis Global
HR Business Partner
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Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast-growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure, and people? Then this is the place for you.
As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits. To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient, and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact.
About the Role
This is a critical HR Business Partner role supporting Corporate and Commercial leadership teams to drive organisational effectiveness, people performance, leadership capability, and business growth. You will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering the people agenda, acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders while providing credible, values-led HR leadership across Corporate and Commercial functions.
Operating as a strategic business partner to functional leadership teams, you will help translate business objectives into pragmatic people plans that drive performance, enable transformation, and build organisational capability. You will ensure alignment with wider regional and global HR strategies, frameworks, and processes while balancing business priorities with a strong employee experience. A core focus of the role is building trusted relationships with business leaders, influencing decision-making, and supporting organisational change. You will enable leaders to build high-performing, engaged, and inclusive teams, helping the business navigate growth, transformation, and evolving market demands. The role requires a commercially minded HR professional who can operate strategically while remaining close enough to the business to understand operational realities and provide practical solutions.
Through coaching, challenge, and partnership, you will act as a catalyst for organisational and cultural development, ensuring the business has the talent, leadership capability, and organisational structures needed for long-term success.
Purpose of the Role
Your purpose will be to provide strategic HR business partnering support to Corporate and Commercial functions, working closely with senior leaders and the wider UK&I HR team to ensure all people initiatives support business objectives and align with broader organisational priorities. You will play a central role within leadership teams, developing strong, trusted relationships and influencing decisions that drive organisational effectiveness, talent development, employee engagement, and business performance.
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Key Deliverables
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Strategic Business Partnering
- Own and deliver the people agenda for designated Corporate and Commercial functions, ensuring alignment with business priorities and wider regional and global HR strategies.
- Partner with functional leaders to develop and execute workforce plans that support growth, transformation, and future capability requirements.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, providing strategic counsel on organisation design, talent, culture, and people-related risks.
- Use workforce insights and data to identify trends, inform decision-making, and drive continuous improvement.
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Organisation Effectiveness & Change
- Partner with leaders on organisation design, restructuring, operating model changes, and transformation programmes.
- Assess organisational capability and identify interventions to improve effectiveness, performance, and employee experience.
- Support leaders in planning and implementing change initiatives, ensuring effective communication, engagement, and adoption.
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Talent, Leadership & Succession
- Lead talent and succession planning processes across supported functions, identifying critical talent and development opportunities.
- Partner with Talent and Learning teams to build and implement leadership and capability development strategies.
- Support the identification and development of future leaders through tailored development planning and career pathways.
- Lead senior-level recruitment activity in partnership with Talent Acquisition.
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Leadership Coaching & Performance
- Coach and challenge leaders on all aspects of people leadership, team effectiveness, and organisational performance.
- Support managers in managing performance, enhancing accountability, and building high-performing teams.
- Drive leadership capability through coaching, mentoring, and development interventions.
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Culture, Engagement & Inclusion
- Lead and support initiatives that strengthen culture, engagement, inclusion, and employee experience.
- Partner with leaders to analyse engagement survey outcomes and develop meaningful action plans.
- Hold leaders accountable for creating inclusive, high-performing, and engaging team environments.
- Champion wellbeing, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within supported functions.
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HR Governance & Collaboration
- Ensure delivery of annual people processes including talent reviews, performance management, succession planning, and reward cycles.
- Partner closely with HR Centres of Excellence including Reward, Talent Acquisition, Learning, Employee Relations, and Wellbeing teams to deliver integrated people solutions.
- Collaborate with HR Business Partners across the organisation to ensure consistency, share best practice, and drive continuous improvement.
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Essential
- Significant HR Business Partner experience supporting senior leaders within a complex, fast-paced organisation.
- Strong strategic business partnering, coaching, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience leading organisational change and transformation initiatives.
- Proven expertise in talent management, succession planning, and leadership development.
- Strong employee relations and employment law knowledge.
- Commercially minded with the ability to align people strategies to business outcomes.
- Data-driven approach with experience using people analytics and insights.
- CIPD Level 5 qualified or equivalent experience.
Desirable
- Experience supporting Corporate and/or Commercial functions.
- Expertise in organisation design and workforce planning.
- FMCG, consumer goods, retail, or commercial business experience.
pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion, or any other classification protected by law.
We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit a candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business. We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.
pladis is one of the world’s fastest-growing snacking companies and home to much-loved brands including McVitie’s, GODIVA, and Ülker. pladis also owns regional brands Jacob’s, Go Ahead, Flipz, Turtles, BN, Verkade, and many more products across sweet and savoury biscuits, wafer, cake, and chocolate. Formed in 2016, pladis is the proud steward of over 300 years of family baking and confectionery experience. The expertise of our 16,000-strong global workforce spans 27 bakeries across 11 countries and is united by our purpose: to ‘bring happiness with every bite’. As a responsible business delivering the highest quality products and exceptional service, pladis’ products have the potential to reach more than four billion people across the world.
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