HR Officer

If you are ambitious selfmotivated hardworking and a team player and interested in growing your career with an International FMCG business please read through our job opportunity.

Key Purpose:

The HR Officer will provide a HR advisory service to all key stakeholders at the Middleton Site across the full employee lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

Advisory

• Provides a HR advisory service to all key stakeholders at the Middleton site across the full employee lifecycle drawing on support from the centres of excellence within the wider HR function. It should be noted the role will be required to support alternative locations within the UK also (Arbeta Manchester Offices and Middleton Central Offices).
• Ensures that legal compliance is maintained and processes/systems are in place across all areas within HR.
• Working closely with all people managers providing coaching and support to ensure competence and capability in all key HR practices.

Learning Development Resourcing and Talent Management

• Assist all people managers in identifying the training needs of their team.
• Work with the people managers to recruit and appoint using fair systematic processes in line with Company procedures.
• Ensure people managers are competent to conduct interviews regardless of the nature of the interview e.g. disciplinary redundancy investigation.
• Work with L&D colleagues to offer insights into local learning and development requirements.

Organisation development

• Works with people managers to deliver communication and engagement activities in a manner which suits local needs.
• Support the site employee opinion survey process by supporting people managers in the communication and action planning stages.
• Work with people managers to implement and embed the talent management process to assure succession and capability plans.

Employee and Industrial Relations

• Coach people managers to develop solutions to address sensitive and /or difficult situations e.g. D&G performance management change.

• Provides coaching and advice on a range of employment relations policies and practices such that they can manage any employment relations issues. E.g. disciplinary grievance attendance management
• Work in conjunction with people managers and Occupational Health to manage absence in line with the Attendance and Capability Polices
• Ensure that HR material is consistent and up to date in line with the Companys policies and practices and is accessible. E.g. employee handbooks contracts intranet.
• Use KPIs to inform people managers and drive improvement opportunities.

Colleague Engagement & General HR Activities

• A member of the Site Engagement Team at Middleton site.
• Provide support to each location for all HR initiatives

Relevant and Quantifiable Measures:

Relevant facts/figures relating to the job including number of direct reports budgets)

• Provides a HR advisory service to defined key stakeholders.
• Executes agreed standard processes and ways of working.
• No direct reports
• Is a credible advocate for the HR function and commands the respect of all stakeholders.
• Timely compliance with employment law changes
• KPIs / reports produced within agreed timescales in the absence of the HR Analyst.

Behavioural Competencies / Personal Characteristics:

(Experience and skills needed to do the job)

• Result driven and solution focused.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to coach and mentor.
• Resilient with an ability to prioritise and deliver to tough deadlines.
• Energised influential flexible and motivated with a high level of commitment
• Proven analytical skills and numerate with an eye for detail.
• Balances communication skills in a wide range of complex and sensitive situations e.g. recruitment discipline grievance wellbeing performance management
• Actively uses coaching skills to facilitate the learning of others.
• Seeks and promotes the idea of continuous improvement. Challenges and encourages the challenge of the status quo sets stretching targets encourages feedback seeks out best practice.

Technical Competencies & Qualifications:

(Experience and skills needed to do the job)

• Experienced HR Advisor/Officer within a fast paced (ideally suited to Manufacturing/Logistics or Retail).
• Ideally holds a formal CIPD qualification or working towards.
• Welldeveloped selfmanagement skills structured completer finisher and selfinitiator
• Confident in the use of digital HR systems such as Workday and ADP in addition to MS Office.

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