People Manager - 12 month FTC

Morrisons; Newton Hill; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK supermarket chain is seeking a People Manager to drive HR practices and develop a high-performing workforce. This role involves managing HR teams, creating a supportive culture, and ensuring compliance with employment laws. Candidates should be CIPD qualified with experience in a fast-paced environment, strong communication skills, and be able to manage complex employee relations cases. Attractive benefits include six weeks' holiday and a competitive pension scheme.

Benefits

Six weeks of holiday

15% store discount

Career progression opportunities

Subsidised staff canteen

Free parking

Market leading pension

Health & Well-being benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced, agile environment (preferably Manufacturing or Logistics).
• Up-to-date knowledge of employment law.
• Experience with complex employee relations cases.
• Ability to communicate widely, including to large groups.
• Flexibility in working hours with some travel involved.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage HR teams to ensure a motivated workforce.
• Deliver site people plan aligned with company framework.
• Coach management to improve team performance.
• Maintain legal compliance in ER, IR, and Payroll processes.
• Proactively prioritize health and safety at all times.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Coaching and influencing

Communication

IT skills (MS Office, HR systems)

Education

CIPD qualified or equivalent HR management experience

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Our People Managers play a huge part in the success of our Sites and keep all the plates spinning at once – creating and driving a successful people strategy and operation. This role is one that can really make a difference to the whole operation of the site. So if you want to be in a role that creates impact and where you can encourage change, then this role is for you.

Managing a team of HR and Training Advisors/Assistants our People Managers business partner the Site and Leadership teams to deliver first class HR practices through the Morrisons vision and ways of working. It's fast pace, challenging but a highly rewarding role where attention to detail and credibility is key.

Reporting into the Head of People you will also:

• Lead and manage the People and site teams to ensure that the site has a high performing, motivated and trained team of colleagues
• Define and deliver a site people plan that is relevant to the local needs whilst in line with the Morrisons framework
• Create a culture of respect where Managers engage with, listen to and respond to their team members
• Coach and support the management team and your People team to improve performance and grow talent across the whole site
• Ensure that all ER, IR and Payroll processes and procedures are legal and in line with Company standards
• Own all temporary and permanent labour supplies into your site, working with relevant parties to fill vacancies whilst ensuring a great candidate/colleague experience
• Own and drive talent on your site, ensuring development plans and succession plans are in place for all salaried colleagues
• Ensure that the site has the right people in the right place at the right time, and that training remains at the top of the leadership teams agenda
• Proactively prioritise the Health and Safety of our colleagues and customers at all times
• Identify and deliver savings and work with the Operational teams to ensure that site labour budgets and labour efficiencies are delivered

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About you

To be successful in this role, as well as being a strategic thinker and the ability to be nurture successful teams, you must also have:

• CIPD qualified or with equivalent level of HR management experience
• Experience of working in a fast paced, agile and demanding environment. (Ideally in a Manufacturing or Logistics environment)
• Up to date and deep knowledge of employment law
• Experience of dealing with significant and complex employee relations cases
• Exposure of working within a unionised environment
• The ability to coach and influence at all levels
• Confidence to communicate widely, including to large groups of colleagues
• Strong IT skills, including MS Office and HR systems
• Flexibility in terms of working hours, some travel will be involved to support other sites and project work

Additionally, you will be a self-starter, be innovative and creative in your ideas and be driven by culture change and be pragmatic in your strategic thought process. You will hold a desire to step up in your career alongside the development of our current People team.

In return for your hard work we will offer you:

Six weeks holiday (including bank holidays) 15% discount in our stores available from the day you join us Additional 10% discount More Card for a friend or family member Career progression and development opportunities Subsidised staff canteen Free parking Market leading pension and life assurance Healthcare/Well-being benefits including Aviva Digital GP Morrisons MyPerks with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more Long Service Awards Optional Payroll charity donations Enhanced Family/maternity/parental leave

About us

From a Bradford market stall to the UK’s 4th largest supermarket chain and the UK's 2nd largest fresh food manufacturer.

We are proud to be the Yorkshire food retailer serving customers across the UK in over almost 500 stores and an online home delivery service. Our 18 manufacturing sites provide our customers with the freshest produce from flowers, fish and veg to burgers and bread, all delivered to our stores via our 6 distribution sites by our 2,000 strong fleet.

Every week, 11 million customers pass through our doors and around 97,000 colleagues across the business work hard each day to deliver great service to them. We cover more than 11 million households with our Morrisons.com service. With competitive, permanently low prices we are committed to helping our customers save money every day.

We are foodmakers and shopkeepers and #wemakemorrisons.

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