Hr Business Partner

We’re proud to offer you a career with possibilities. To encourage you to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day. To know that as a valued HR Business Partner we’ll support your ambition, reward your resilience, and encourage you to create a career you can be proud of too.

Bakkavor Meals is looking to recruit a HR Business Partner at Meals Boston. This is a standalone role with the opportunity to be part of the site management team and implement a number of key people initiatives at the site. This is a great opportunity for a HR professional that is looking to progress their career. You could be in a HR Associate, HR Advisor or HR Officer role currently looking to take the next step.

Bakkavor Meals Boston employs over 700 people and specialises in making chilled Italian ready meals for a dedicated customer. It is part of the Bakkavor Meals sector.

Location: Bakkavor Meals, Boston (Old Leake - PE22 9PN)

Salary - £35,000 - £45,000 depending on experience
Private Healthcare
Pension
10% bonus
Monday to Friday 8.30 to 17.00, flexibility required.

About the role:

• Work with line managers to deliver the business engagement plan and specific engagement initiatives including the employee engagement survey.
• Work with My HR Services to deliver all weekly paid and some salaried recruitment.
• Conduct labour planning meetings with operational managers to ensure that manning levels for permanent and temporary labour are always at the optimum level.
• Coach line managers on the people performance cycle and ensures all reviews are completed, Personal Development Plans are live and action plans are in place where improvement is required. Develop line managers through coaching to ensure quality conversations take place.
• Deliver local Organisational Designs initiatives ensuring outcomes meet needs of the business and employment legislation.
• Ensure compliance with HR policies and processes for area of responsibility.
• Coach and support line managers on absence, disciplinary and grievance issues and ensure managers have the appropriate skills to manage these people processes.
• Provide insight to the SHRBP and Line Managers on root causes of Business Unit people issues and make recommendations to improve.
• Support the Senior HRBP in delivering the business Talent process including Talent discussions, levelling, assessment and development centre observation and feedback, in order to ensure delivery of a talent pipeline for the business unit.
• Support SHRBP with management of pay, reward and recognition for the business.
• Report on KPIs for area of responsibility and agree actions to drive improvements with line managers and the SHRBP.
• Ensure area of responsibility is always audit ready from a people and ethical perspective. In addition, support SHRBP with the business ethical agenda
• Ensure the SEF (Site Employee Forum) agenda is realised within the area of responsibility and that the employee voice is represented.

The successful candidate will ideally:

• Be CIPD qualified.
• Have experience in performance management, disciplinaries, grievances, ER case management and HR Generalist Knowledge.
• Ideally have experience within a food manufacturing environment or similar including FMCG and retail.

About us:

We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.

Proud to be Bakkavor

We’re proud to deliver outstanding quality, service, and value to our customers. We’re proud to be the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK. And we’re proud of the hard work, quality focus and loyalty of our people. Join our team and we’ll make you proud too.

Please apply now to find out more!