An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced HR professional to join a rapidly growing, family-owned food manufacturing business at a pivotal stage of its journey.
With ambitious growth plans and future multi-site expansion on the horizon, this newly created role offers the opportunity to build and lead the people agenda, working directly alongside the CEO and senior leadership team to develop a high-performing, engaged, and scalable workforce.
This is far more than a traditional HR role. You’ll be instrumental in shaping culture, driving organisational development, strengthening employee engagement, and ensuring the business has the people capability to support its long-term growth strategy.
As HR Manager, you will take ownership of the entire employee lifecycle while developing and implementing a people strategy that supports business objectives and future expansion.
Key responsibilities include:
- Partnering with senior leadership to develop and execute the people strategy
- Leading recruitment, onboarding, succession planning, and retention initiatives
- Building a strong employer brand and employee value proposition
- Developing performance management, appraisal, and development frameworks
- Managing employee relations, including disciplinary and grievance processes
- Driving employee engagement, communication, and company culture initiatives
- Ensuring compliance with UK employment legislation and HR best practice
- Managing HR systems, reporting, policies, and personnel records
Experience/Qualifications:
- CIPD Level 5 qualified
- Experience within manufacturing, food manufacturing, logistics, or another operational environment
- Strong knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice
- Experience building HR processes, systems, and people initiatives
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels
- Strong organisational and communication skills
- Experience with HRIS systems and HR reporting
- Fluency in Hindi and/or Gujariti is absolutely essential due to the demographic of the workforce.
Why Join?
This is a newly created leadership role with genuine influence on the business and direct dealings with the senior leadership and stakeholder team. There is a great opportunity to build and develop the people function and influence the culture and organisational growth.
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