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BAKKAVOR FOODS LIMITED Title: Senior Human Resources Business Partner Location: Wigan Salary: Competitive Benefits: £8,400 Car Allowance 25 days holiday plus bank holidays Highly competitive reward package including Group Pension Private Healthcare Family Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group We re proud to offer you a career with possibilities. To encourage you to work hard, aim high and bring your best to work, every day. To know that as a valued Senior HR Business Partner we ll support your ambition, reward your resilience and encourage you to create a career you can be proud of too. We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We re ambitious. We re full of ideas. And we re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us. The role An outstanding opportunity for an experienced Senior HR Business Partner to join us as a key member of the Site Leadership Team at our busy Bakkavor Meals Wigan site, helping to shape and influence the business direction. Wigan specialises in making chilled ready meals, food to go salads and vegetable accompaniments and employs around 1200 people. Key to the site s success is the quality, commitment and determination of our people. What will you do? You will work collaboratively with the General Manager and the Site Leadership Team to shape and deliver the overall Business Strategy and the People Plan that underpins it. As a true generalist, you will oversee the full breadth of HR activity on site, including talent management, resourcing, employee engagement, reward and employment relations. You will understand the priorities, challenges and key drivers for the site in order to influence all key decisions. You will need to work closely with the leadership colleagues to ensure that the wider impact and consequences of any change are understood and well communicated. You will ensure that change programmes are managed effectively to meet the objectives of cost, quality and time. You will need to work closely with central support functions such as HR Services, Talent Acquisition and Learning & Development to ensure that the site continues to attract and retain the right calibre of people at the right time, in line with Bakkavor Values. You will effectively lead, coach and mentor a team of 4 to ensure that the HR function operates effectively and meet customers needs Reporting to the Head of Human Resources for Bakkavor Meals, you will work closely with her and the HR Leadership community across Bakkavor to ensure that all Group level strategies and processes are embedded at site level. About you The successful candidate will be agile, influential, collaborative, results driven and strategic. Whilst it is not essential to have previous experience in the food industry, you will be used to working in an FMCG environment with a diverse workforce. You will hold a CIPD qualification, possess excellent commercial/business acumen and should be financially astute. We are looking for a change leader who has experience of leading programmes at business level. You will have proven experience of formulating people strategies that work in conjunction with an overall, wider business strategy. Finally, you will have good working knowledge for prevailing employment legislation with proven experience leading collective consultations and managing workplace discipline to Employment Tribunal level. Proud to be Bakkavor We re proud to be the leading UK provider of innovative, high-quality, fresh prepared food. We re proud to be driven by the hard work and passion of our people. And we re proud to offer a wide range of careers full of support and opportunity. Join our team and we ll make you proud too