Job Title: Senior HR Business Partner

Location: Leicestershire & Lincolnshire

Salary: £ competitive basic salary + benefits

What can we offer you?

• Flexible working arrangements, including remote work options
• Service Awards
• Enhanced paternity and maternity
• Free life insurance
• Enhanced Sick Pay Scheme
• Access to Perkbox with a variety of discounts including a monthly freebie from Greggs or Café Nero
• A Celebration day after 1 years service enjoy an extra day off to celebrate a life event, such as your birthday
• Access to DigiCare + - Annual Health Check, Digital GP Consultations, Nutritional Consultations, Second Health Opinion and Mental Health Consultations.
• Discounted Gym Memberships
• Free Eye Test every two years
• Discounted mobile phone contracts
• Share in our success with the People Partnership - after 6 months service you will be eligible for a yearly bonus
• Additional Allowances for First Aiders and Mental Health First Aiders
• Wellness programme
• Employee Charity Matching Scheme

To provide technical HR expertise and coaching support to the management teams within the sites across your Region and to act as a true business partner in researching and analysing where and when HR interventions will add value to the business and minimise risk.

As a key part of the HR team the role works across the business to lead and influence change at a strategic level.

We a fast paced FMCG business and in this role you will be the HR Business partner to the Management teams across the sites within your region ensuring the delivery and implementation of our People Strategy to improve organisational capability and effectiveness. You will be the direct line manager for the HR Advice Manager for your area of accountability. As part of the wider Noble HR team, you will be responsible for delivering the Group DEI strategy and actively contributing to and leading on a range of HR projects. This role will involve regular national travel between sites.

The role:

• To actively contribute to the HR strategy and project plan and make recommendations to improve overall business performance
• To regularly review team structures, job descriptions, grading and benchmarking with Site Managers and feedback suggestions to ensure effective overhead cost management and optimise business performance
• To manage the regions succession planning and talent management processes, including chairing regular reviews and ensuring there is a robust succession plan in place to provide a talent pipeline for key positions
• Support Managers in the creation of development plans and recruitment plans to fill current and future skills gaps
• Support any Graduate or Apprenticeship Colleagues within your region, ensuring they receive the required level of training, development and review
• To take part in the selection process and decisions for management recruitment
• Management of employment tribunals where required
• Ensure that every Colleague has a quality Induction and training to deliver their role and remain legally compliant at all times
• To analyse and interpret data from a variety of sources including HR KPI reports, Appraisals, 360 feedback etc. Ensure that the information is used to develop action plans which make the best use of HR resources and add value to the business
• To provide advice and coaching to enable Managers to deal with poor performance issues in order to minimise the impact on business results
• To use specialist expertise and experience to coach Managers on employment relations issues to minimise risk to the business
• Develop the leadership capability and people management skills of the management population including the design and delivery of training sessions as required
• Responsible for the recruitment of direct employees across the Region
• To act as an appointed coach to members of the operational management team as required and provide 1:1 coaching on an informal basis as required

You:

• Good/Excellent understanding of current UK Employment Law
• Senior HR Generalist with experience of operating across multi site/multi region businesses
• Excellent organisational, planning and project management skills, ability to manage many tasks concurrently and to tight deadlines
• Excellent communication skills both verbal & written
• Ability to deal with change constructively and devise and implement new systems of work to meet business needs
• IT literate and able to interpret numerical data
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build trust and relationships across all levels and gain confidence and credibility for self and the HR function.
• Resilience – ability to deal with a wide range of people and emotional situations along with fluctuating workloads
• Passionate about developing self and others
• Ability to influence at a senior management level both of peers and above

Noble Foods is a family-owned company which began in 1920 and includes successful milling, poultry, agriculture, and consumer foods businesses. Within this, Noble Foods owns several successful brands, including the UK’s biggest free-range egg brand the Happy Egg co., Big & Fresh and Purely Organic.

In a recent survey by Best Companies we were rated as one of the Top 10 companies to work for in the Food and Drink industry.