Human Resources Business Partner - Manufacturing at Upfield

About The Job

Your Role:
In the role of HRBP Manufacturing, you will be responsible for all aspects of the people agenda for the manufacturing site. 

• You will ensure by effectively partnering your client group that HR policies and processes are executed effectively. 
• You will work closely with the Chief Finance Officer (CFO), factory and business leadership, using your business expertise & insight to diagnose talent, organisation, culture and capability needs in the business and deliver interventions to address these.

Main Job Responsibilities:

• Assesses the talent needs of the manufacturing organisation to design and deliver the most effective talent solutions
• Effectively partners factory managers to influence them to make the right choices regarding Talent
• Engages and communicates with employees the vision for effective teams and effective change management
• Understands organisation diagnostic tools and uses them to plan and implement a range of organisation development interventions and change acceleration programmes
• Coaches and advises manufacturing managers in the optimization of organization and team design techniques to improve performance
• Works at both the organizational and individual level to assess learning & capability building needs. Advises the client group the business and performance benefits of learning interventions
• Develops an effective ER strategy & delivers it through coaching employees to ensure a strong understanding of employment law and risk mitigation
• Builds capability in managing performance and reward decisions among factory managers
• Monitors and addresses legal compliance issues to ensure that the organization complies with local and national laws (for e.g. recruitment, diversity, data protection, employee contracts)
• Has financial and budgetary responsibility for HR in the factory site - to manage budgets and absence cost control and reduction and FTE optimization
• Drive implementation of a ‘World Class approach’ along with the factory leadership team by educating the factory resources and related change management efforts
• Is responsible for delivering Employee & Industrial Relations (ER/ IR) to the business (knowledge of legislative codes and consequent impact on the organization, relationships with work councils/ unions, government/regulatory bodies, community, etc
• Provides input into the Talent strategy for the business through developing insight and analysis of people related business issues and opportunities
• Collects Human Resources/ Organization Effectiveness metrics and measurement for the site across the entire HR lifecycle.

So, what does it take to be successful in this role?
Key Skills:

• Building Talent Supply
• HR Change Facilitation
• Organisational Effectiveness
• Performance Improvement
• Change Management

Required Experience/Qualifications:

• University graduate
• 5+ years hands on IR and Operational experience
• Relevant experience in HR systems and processes
• Good knowledge of key HR processes, roles and responsibilities across the entire HR lifecycle
• Relevant experience in ER/IR systems and process in a complex environment
• Thorough understanding of management trade unions, key legal, compliance, safety and other regulatory issues involved in key HR processes – knows key issues to look out for and when to get expertise teams involved
• Ideally has had experience of HR service centre environment and/or expertise teams as well as hands-on HR management.