HR Advisor - 7 month FTC

Greencore; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in convenience food seeks a dynamic HR Advisor to enhance their people services. In this role, you will provide comprehensive support to colleagues and managers, ensuring compliance with policies and legal standards. You will be instrumental in promoting colleague engagement and maintaining a positive work environment. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a vibrant team while developing your HR expertise in a supportive atmosphere. If you're passionate about HR and want to make a difference, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Access to Wellbeing Centre

Qualifications

• Part CIPD qualified or working towards HR qualification.
• Experience in a generalist Human Resources function.
• Current knowledge of employment legislation.

Responsibilities

• Provide advisory service on contractual terms and policies.
• Support managers in grievance and disciplinary procedures.
• Coordinate the company induction programme for new colleagues.

Skills

CIPD qualification

HR experience

Employment legislation knowledge

Computer skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Experience with diverse teams

Education

HR qualification

Tools

HR systems

General databases

Job description

Why Greencore?

We’re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make every day taste better.

We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer, employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from sandwiches, soups, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.

Here at Park Royal, we have a team of around 1,150 colleagues. We produce sandwiches, wraps, and platters for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Morrisons, Co-op, Spar, Wilko, Sutherlands, Iceland, and Poundland.

Please note this role is for a 7-month FTC and fully on-site.

What you'll be doing

As a HR Advisor, you will provide a client-focused, comprehensive, and professional people service to colleagues and managers by maintaining and developing processes, ensuring adherence to policies, procedures, and legal requirements.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide an advisory service to colleagues ensuring that they are fully aware of their contractual terms and conditions and Greencore’s people policies.
• Provide practical advice and direction for line managers to implement people practices in compliance with Greencore policy and statutory employment legislation while providing a positive, consistent colleague experience.
• Advise and provide support to managers to ensure the correct procedures are followed in carrying out grievance, disciplinary, and performance improvement investigations, hearings, and attendance.
• Coordinate the delivery of the company induction programme in partnership with line managers for all new colleagues in line with Greencore standards.
• Promote the colleague engagement agenda by supporting the Greencore Way awards and People at the Core survey.
• Act on relevant HR key performance indicator information in a timely manner, itemizing trends and generating it in a format that is readily available for managers to review, e.g., sickness absence data.
• Quality check, govern, and validate that training and competence standards are being met through regular audits.
• Administrate absence management through HR systems to minimize absence rates and promote positive colleague relations.

We work hard to ensure that Greencore is a great place to work, and our people truly are at the core. We’re committed to ensuring all our colleagues have development plans and strive to provide inspiring leadership. Why not come join us?

What we’re looking for

• Ideally part CIPD qualified or working towards HR qualification.
• Experience working with computer systems such as Word, Excel, email, PowerPoint, and general databases.
• Experience of working within a generalist Human Resources function.
• Current and up-to-date knowledge of employment legislation.
• Experience of working with diverse teams.

We’re not all the same at Greencore, and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

If this sounds like you, join us, grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits.
• Holidays.
• Pension up to 8% matched.
• Company share save scheme.
• Greencore Qualifications.
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform.
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform.

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.