Hr Advisor

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.

Job Purpose:
Responsible for providing a comprehensive and professional HR support service to stakeholders and colleagues on various HR-related matters.
Ensure detailed knowledge of site and group policies and procedures, terms and conditions, employment legislation and HR best practice. Provide advice and support to Line Managers and colleagues on day-to-day operational issues ensuring consistency is applied at all times.
Support the site Leadership and HR team to deliver the Site Strategy and HR/People Strategy in line with Operational Business Plans (MWBP’s and TIP’s) and Operating Framework (SQCDP).
Principle Accountabilities:
Employee Lifecycle:
• Handle employee relations matters, including disciplinary issues, grievances, and conflicts, by conducting investigations, providing advice, and recommending appropriate actions.
• Ensure a HR presence throughout the relevant stages of the procedures.
• Work with the HRBP to ensure all TU and employee relations activity is dealt with effectively in-house and in accordance with legislation, policies and procedures; minimising and reducing risk and exposure factors to the business.
• Handle various administrative tasks, including maintaining People Gateway, managing colleague onboarding and offboarding processes, and ensuring HR databases and systems are accurate and up to date.
• Implement changes to colleagues’ terms and conditions of employment following the appropriate authorisations in conjunction with People Services, in a timely and efficient manner.
• Support the HRBP with departmental colleague forums, Union Forum Meetings and Wage Negotiations.
Policies and Procedures:
• Develop, review, and update HR policies and procedures to ensure compliance with employment legislation, industry best practices, and organisational requirements.
• Responsible for the continuous review of site policies and procedures ensuring they are in line with current legislation.
• Support the HR Department to ensure all operational HR activities are conducted in line with employment legislation and best practice.
Performance Management:
• Support performance management processes, including annual PDR Cycles, Objective setting, and formal improvement plans, by providing guidance to managers and colleagues.
Occupational Health
• Lead sickness absence case management including recommendations, providing support and advice to people managers, liaising with Occupational Health, case review meetings and capability due to ill-health.
• Support the relationship with the OH provider, ensuring the occupational health service is delivered effectively and efficiently and adherence to health surveillance requirements is maintained
Learning and Development
• In conjunction with the HRBP support People Managers in developing personal development plans for colleagues across the site.
• Support the creation, design and delivery of the statutory, mandatory, developmental and organisational change training requirements for new and existing colleagues.
• Support, develop and deliver regular training sessions on HR Policies, procedures, values and behaviours.
• Support the PDR activities across the site.
Business Support, Communication & Engagement
• Provide HR advisory input to support project activity for the site, specifically relating to the people agenda including colleague engagement, leadership development, colleague wellbeing and reward and recognition.
• Keep up to date with developments in employment legislation and human resources best practice, knowledge sharing within the team to ensure continuous development and improvement in the service offered. Identify and communicate these implications to Operational Management teams, as appropriate.
• Create and review attendance management and ER data analysis, support by the HR Administrator. Create and deliver actions plans, alongside relevant manager, for improvement.
• Support the HR involvement in focused improvement activities across the site and departmental focus group supporting employee engagement activities.
• Contribute to Group HR & Site projects and initiatives as and when required.
• Support retailer Ethical Audits in conjunction with the HRBP ensuring all preparatory work is undertaken in order to minimise the number of non conformances issued.
• Carry out any other tasks as may be reasonably requested by the HR Business Partner.
• These are the key daily tasks, not a comprehensive list of all tasks undertaken by the jobholder. Flexibility is required by the business.
• All employees should carry out their duties in a responsible manner giving due consideration to Safety, Environmental & Quality procedures.
• Contribute to the health & safety of self and others by applying health and safety principles to the required standards whilst undertaking designated tasks.

Knowledge
• Considerable generalist HR experience, preferably at HR Officer/Advisor level.
• Experience of working within an FMCG environment and working with Trade Unions
• CIPD qualified
Skills
• Ability to build effective internal relationships with customers is critical
• Effective communication and IT Skills
• Experience of operating in a HR Business Partner environment
• Able to demonstrate tenacity and have a flexible attitude and approach
• Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Influencing
• Ability to operate flexibly in a constantly changing environment.