Employee Relations Specialist - 4 month FTC Maternity Cover

Yeo Valley Production Ltd; Highbridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free parking

PPE provided

Locker facilities

Pension scheme

Healthcare cash back plan

Cycle to work scheme

Staff product discounts

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

Yeo Valley Production Ltd is seeking an ER Specialist to provide technical guidance to site-based People Managers across multiple sites. You will interpret People Policies, offer sound advice, and lead on complex employee relations matters to support fair, consistent treatment in line with the company’s co-ownership culture.

You will collaborate with People Services, IT and stakeholders to build understanding of people data, analytics and metrics, creating bespoke reports and dashboards for

Qualifications

• Employee relations knowledge.
• Experience providing best practice advice using internal policies.
• CIPD Level 5 or equivalent considered desirable.
• Policy creation experience or involvement.
• FMCG/manufacturing background is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Act as a point of contact for People Services Assistants, Managers and Partners on interpretation of People Policies.
• Provide procedural advice to resolve people challenges and cases.
• Attend formal meetings, take notes, and maintain case files and systems.
• Oversee attendance management per policy and escalate concerns.
• Coach managers on performance processes and policy alignment.
• Ensure policies stay current with legislation and align to company purpose.
• Analyze people data with IT and stakeholders to create reports and dashboards.
• Lead workshops with managers on new tools and procedures.

Skills

Employee relations

UK employment law

HR analytics

MS Office & HRIS

Education

CIPD Level 5

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

HRIS

Job description

So, what will I be doing?

At Yeo Valley, we're about more than just making great food – we're here to Nurture & Nourish People & Planet by Making Great Food the Right Way. Forever. As a co-owned business, we invest in our people, encourage growth, and believe in doing things properly.

We aim to be a successful, visionary and purposeful food and farming business powered by people who feel inspired by our purpose and valued as co-owners.

As ER Specialist you will provide technical expertise to our site-based people managers at three of our production sites: Crewkerne and Newton Abbot. You will interpret and apply Yeo Valley’s People Policies, providing sound advice and where required support or lead on more complex employee relations matters.

You will also support in ensuring that Yeo Valley’s ‘people policies’ are not only well maintained, but critically, align with Yeo Valley’s purpose to ‘nurture and nourish people and planet’ within our culture of co-ownership.

Key responsibilities

Employee Relations

• Act as a point of contact and escalation for People Services Assistants, People Managers and People Partners, regarding the interpretation and application of People Policies.
• Works closely with our people managers to provide procedural advice and guidance, enabling them to resolve people challenges and employee relations cases whilst ensuring our co-owners are treated fairly, consistently and with our values in mind.
• Attends formal meetings to note take, provide HR Advice/guidance and ensure that case files are appropriately maintained with required systems.
• Has oversight of attendance management, ensuring compliance with the policy, escalating concerns where appropriate.
• Supports and coaches people managers in line with Yeo Valley’s Supporting your Performance at Work Policy, ensuring robust management of performance improvement processes.
• Ensures that People Policies are both maintained, reflecting the most up to date legislative requirements, but also reviews availability and content ongoing to ensure that policies provide an appropriate framework – and align to YV purpose to ‘nurture and nourish people & planet’ and culture of co-ownership.
• Works with both People Services & People Partners to review case logs and individual case management information (for respective functions/departments), ensuring fairness and consistency in application (across all departments/functions), and to undertake analysis of people activities – making recommendations for coaching/training opportunities to improve overall line manager capability.
• Acts as a data expert, working with both People Services, IT and stakeholders, to build a deep understanding of people data, analytics and metrics required by key stakeholders and create bespoke reports and dashboards.
• Where appropriate, leads workshops/training with People Managers to upskill and provide information on new toolkits/procedures.

What good looks like for this role

• A fantastic team player
• Proactive in approach, identifying opportunities for improvement
• Demonstrable and relevant experience working in a similar ER Specialist/HR Advisor role
• Has an in-depth and up to date working knowledge of UK employment law
• Is analytical with an exceptional degree of accuracy and proven attention to detail when working with data
• Is great at producing reports and confidence in working with data, figures, systems, and spreadsheets
• Has a strong technical knowledge of HRIS systems. Advanced level of MS Office, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

Essential

• Employee Relations knowledge
• Experience of providing best practice advice, using internal policies

Desirable

• CIPD – level 5
• Policy creation
• FMCG/Manufacturing background

Why should I join the family?

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.

We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer. It goes without saying that you'll have access to free parking, top of the range personal protection equipment (PPE) and your own locker. You'll also receive the following: Competitive holiday allowance non-contributory pension scheme life cover healthcare cash back plan cycle to work scheme subsidised Yeo Valley products and services preferential rates with our partners learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can.

Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.