People Partner

Greencore Group plc; Spalding; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company share save scheme

Competitive pension contributions

Life insurance

Job summary

Greencore Group plc is seeking an experienced HR professional to partner with senior leaders, delivering the People Plan and pragmatic HR support to drive engagement and leadership capability. You will ensure effective people processes that underpin business performance, with strong focus on employee relations and data-driven insights.

The role requires stakeholder engagement, robust HR knowledge, and the ability to work in a site-based hybrid environment across the Spalding operation.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to build relationships with stakeholders and influence outcomes.
• Strong understanding of business priorities and how HR drives performance.
• Excellent communication across varied audiences and executive levels.
• Proactive, pragmatic and solutions-focused mindset.
• Ability to operate under tight timescales in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical skills with experience in data-driven decision making.
• Experience delivering HR projects end-to-end.
• Excellent organisational skills and prioritisation.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders to diagnose people challenges and deliver actions.
• Provide expert guidance on employee relations, attendance, and complex HR matters.
• Support ethical compliance activities including audits and internal readiness.
• Produce people data and reports to support leadership decisions.
• Collaborate with HR Centres of Expertise to drive operations, payroll and talent initiatives.
• Drive engagement initiatives and annual survey action plans.
• Build relationships with unions and temporary labour providers.
• Support reward processes including pay reviews and HR system implementations.
• Strengthen workforce planning and talent pipelines for hourly and salaried roles.
• Coach managers to build capability and manage change.

Skills

Relationship building

Influence

HR analytics

Stakeholder management

Communication

People management

Project delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business

Tools

HRIS

Job description

Benefits

• Company share save scheme
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary

Ways of Working

Site Based 4 days / 1 day from home

Hours of work

Monday – Friday / 08:30-17:00 with flexibility to meet business needs

Contract Type

Permanent

Why Greencore?

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.

Our site in Spalding is a vibrant hub where over 1,470 colleagues bring handcrafted sandwich wraps, salads, dips, soups, sauces, and mayonnaise to life across three manufacturing facilities and a distribution centre.

What you’ll be doing

In this busy and exciting role, you will work in partnership with senior leaders and line managers to deliver the People Plan, providing pragmatic HR support, driving engagement, strengthening leadership capability and ensuring effective people processes that support business performance.

Role Accountabilities

• Partner with leaders to diagnose people challenges, recommend solutions and support delivery of agreed actions
• Provide expert guidance on employee relations, attendance management and complex people matters
• Support ethical compliance activity including SEDEX audits, modern slavery requirements and internal audit readiness
• Produce and analyse people data and reports to support leadership decision making
• Work collaboratively with Centres of Expertise across HR operations, payroll, reward, talent acquisition and learning
• Drive engagement initiatives, employee voice activity and delivery of the annual engagement survey action plans
• Build effective relationships with unions, employee forums, wellbeing champions and temporary labour providers
• Support reward processes including pay reviews and accurate HR system implementation
• Strengthen workforce planning and talent pipelines for both hourly paid and salaried roles
• Coach and develop managers to build capability, support organisational change and deliver performance and succession processes

What we’re looking for

• Proven ability to build relationships, influence and challenge stakeholders effectively
• Strong understanding of business priorities and how HR drives performance outcomes
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to adapt approach to different audiences
• Proactive, pragmatic and solutions-focused mindset
• Ability to work to tight timescales within a fast-paced environment
• Strong analytical capability with experience extracting and presenting people data
• Experience delivering HR or people-focused projects through to completion
• Strong organisational skills with excellent prioritisation and time management
• Sound judgement with the ability to assess risk and escape appropriately
• High integrity with a passion for inclusion and championing a positive culture

We’re proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

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

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• 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.

Greencore and its recruitment partners never charge candidates any fees at any stage of the hiring process. Any request for payment relating to a job opportunity should be considered fraudulent.