Lead People Partner

Greencore Group plc; Roundway; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Car allowance

Holidays

Pension contributions

Life insurance

Employee discount platform

Job summary

Greencore Group plc is seeking a senior HR leader to partner with site leadership across Highbridge and Devizes to deploy people strategies that drive engagement, capability and high-impact solutions in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

You will coach the site people teams, lead employee relations, and support talent, succession and change initiatives in collaboration with Centres of Excellence, ensuring strong pipelines for critical roles within the UK operation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior HR or people leadership role.
• Strong working knowledge of UK employment legislation and employee relations.
• CIPD qualification (MCIPD or FCIPD) required.
• Experience in manufacturing or distribution environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner with site and functional leaders to deploy people priorities and provide pragmatic advice.
• Lead, coach and develop the site people team with a positive, high-performing culture.
• Drive colleague engagement, feedback, and site-level improvements.
• Lead day-to-day employee relations and unions/representatives engagement.
• Support talent, succession and development activities at site level with Centres of Excellence.
• Support and embed organisational change and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with employment legislation, data protection and people policies.
• Build line manager capability through coaching to enable high-quality conversations.
• Collaborate to ensure strong pipelines for critical roles across the business.

Skills

Leadership

Employee relations

Stakeholder management

Change management

UK employment law

Education

CIPD MCIPD/FCIPD

Job description

In this busy and exciting role you will work closely with site leadership to deploy the people strategy, acting as a trusted adviser who drives engagement, capability and high impact people solutions that support business performance in a fast paced operational environment.

Role Accountabilities

• Partner with site and functional leaders to deploy people priorities, providing pragmatic advice, challenge and insight to support effective leadership and delivery of business objectives
• Lead, coach and develop the site people team, setting clear direction and creating a positive, inclusive and high performing team culture
• Drive colleague engagement, communication and colleague voice activity, using feedback and surveys to deliver meaningful site level improvements
• Lead day to day employee relations activity, including effective engagement with trade unions or colleague representatives, ensuring fair, consistent and timely outcomes
• Support talent, succession and development activity at site level in partnership with Centres of Excellence, ensuring strong pipelines for critical roles
• Support and embed organisational change and continuous improvement initiatives, managing people impacts to ensure sustainable adoption
• Ensure compliance with employment legislation, data protection, people policies and human rights standards, proactively managing and escalating people risks
• Build line manager capability through coaching and support, enabling effective performance management and high-quality people conversations
• CIPD qualified (MCIPD/FCIPD)
• Proven experience in a senior HR or people leadership role, ideally within a manufacturing or distribution environment
• Strong working knowledge of UK employment legislation and employee relations
• Experience leading and developing high-performing, diverse teams
• Proactive, organised and able to work flexibly in a fast-paced environment
• Confident communicator with the credibility to challenge and influence senior stakeholders
• 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.

The Sites You'll be Partnering Our Highbridge (Somerset) and Devizes (Wiltshire) sites form a key part of our chilled desserts business. Highbridge specialises in cheesecakes, tarts and sponges, while Devizes produces tarts, doughnuts, crumbles, pies and pastries. Together employing over 1,150 colleagues, the sites operate in fast-paced manufacturing environment, delivering high-quality products to all major retail customers across the UK., At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits incl. bonus and car allowance
• Holidays
• Competitive matched 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 will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.