Bakkavor
Lead People Partner - 12 Month FTC
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Lead People Partner - 12 Month Maternity Fixed Term Contract
Salary: Competitive salary
Benefits: Up to 10% bonus, £5,500 car allowance p/a, Private Medical
Location: Bourne, Lincolnshire
Ways of Working: Site Based
Hours of work: 08.30-17.00, Monday-Friday (Flexibility may be required due to business demands)
Contract Type: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
About Greencore
Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US.
Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.
Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.
This role is based in Bourne at a site specialising in the preparation of fruit, dressed salads, noodles, leafy salads, and stir-fry mixes. The site employs over 1,200 people and is conveniently located just 16 miles from Peterborough and 12 miles from Spalding.
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What you’ll be doing
In this busy and exciting role you will work closely with site leadership to deploy the people strategy, acting as a trusted adviser who drives engagement, capability and high impact people solutions that support business performance in a fast-paced operational environment.
Role Accountabilities
- Partner with site and functional leaders to deploy people priorities, providing pragmatic advice, challenge and insight to support effective leadership and delivery of business objectives
- Lead, coach and develop the site people team, setting clear direction and creating a positive, inclusive and high performing team culture
- Drive colleague engagement, communication and colleague voice activity, using feedback and surveys to deliver meaningful site level improvements
- Lead day to day employee relations activity, including effective engagement with trade unions or colleague representatives, ensuring fair, consistent and timely outcomes
- Support talent, succession and development activity at site level in partnership with Centres of Excellence, ensuring strong pipelines for critical roles
- Support and embed organisational change and continuous improvement initiatives, managing people impacts to ensure sustainable adoption
- Ensure compliance with employment legislation, data protection, people policies and human rights standards, proactively managing and escalating people risks
- Build line manager capability through coaching and support, enabling effective performance management and high-quality people conversations
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What we’re looking for
- CIPD qualified (MCIPD/FCIPD)
- Proven experience in a senior HR or people leadership role, ideally within a manufacturing or distribution environment
- Strong working knowledge of UK employment legislation and employee relations.
- Experience leading and developing high-performing, diverse teams
- Proactive, organised and able to work flexibly in a fast-paced environment
- Confident communicator with the credibility to challenge and influence senior stakeholders
- Intermediate Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
What you’ll get in return
- Competitive salary and job-related benefits
- £5,500 car allowance per annum
- Up to 10% bonus per annum (depending on company performance)
- Private Medical Cover
- 25 Days Annual Leave + 8 Bank Holidays
- Competitive matched pension contributions
- Life insurance up to 4x salary
- Greencore Qualifications
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
- Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
- Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.
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