Lead People Partner

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Please note: This role is a 12-month fixed-term contract.

What you'll be doing

As a Senior People Partner, you will be the lead HR presence at our Wisbech manufacturing site, acting as a trusted adviser to site leadership and driving a people agenda that genuinely moves the dial on performance, engagement and capability.

You will partner closely with the Site General Manager and senior operational leaders, building the kind of relationship that means people come to you before problems escalates. You’ll oversee the employee relations caseload, bringing consistency and rigour to every case. The bigger ambition, though, is to build a genuinely effective Site Employee Forum—one that gives colleagues a real voice, works in genuine partnership with site leadership, and helps make Wisbech a place people are proud to work.

You’ll know what the data is telling you and you’ll use it to inspire action, not just report upward. You’ll lead and develop the on-site people team, setting high standards and building capability across the function. Working with our wider HR teams, you’ll drive talent, succession and engagement activity that has real local impact.

This is also a role with broader significance. As Greencore and Bakkavor continue to build one business together, our sites are at the heart of that change story. You’ll be a guide, partner and occasional challenger to site leadership, ensuring Wisbech moves in step with the direction of the wider business.

What we're looking for

You’re a senior HR professional who’s earned credibility the hard way in complex, fast-paced operational environments where the pace is relentless and the stakes are real. You’ll ideally have:

• CIPD qualification (MCIPD/FCIPD) and a substantial track record in operational HR
• A proven senior HR/people partnering background in a multisite or complex, high-change operational environment
• A genuine track record in employee relations, with the ability to build credible colleague voice mechanisms and site employee forums
• The commercial instincts to read data, spot what it’s telling you, and turn insight into action
• Credibility and confidence with senior operational leaders, both on site and in central functions
• Experience leading and developing a people team, with high standards and the coaching instinct to bring others with you
• Comfortable operating through change and ambiguity, seeing it as an opportunity rather than an obstacle

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Matched company pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you’ll be supported with on-the-job development and the chance to leave a lasting impact on site capability and compliance.

If you’re looking for a role where you can roll up your sleeves, take ownership and help shape a stronger future, join us and grow with Greencore.

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