People Partner - 12 Month FTC

Greencore; Bourne; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company share save scheme

Competitive pension contribution

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Job summary

Greencore, a leading UK food producer, seeks a People Partner on a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract / Secondment in Bourne, Lincolnshire. The role operates on a hybrid model (4 days in the office, 1 day from home) with core hours 08:30–17:00, Monday to Friday.

You will partner with senior leaders to drive the People Plan and support business performance. The ideal candidate will bring HR expertise, strong stakeholder influence, and hands-on experience in employee relations, data analytics, and

Qualifications

• Proven ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of business priorities and how HR drives performance.
• Excellent communication skills adaptable to different audiences.
• Proactive, pragmatic and solutions-focused mindset.
• Experience delivering HR or people-focused projects to completion.
• Strong analytical capability with data reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders to diagnose people challenges and support actions.
• Provide expert guidance on employee relations and attendance.
• Produce and analyse people data to support decision making.
• Drive engagement initiatives and annual engagement survey actions.
• Strengthen workforce planning and talent pipelines.
• Coach and develop managers to support change and succession processes.

Skills

Relationship building

Stakeholder influence

HR knowledge

Communication

Analytical capability

Job description

People Partner – 12 Month FTC / Secondment

Salary: Competitive salary

Benefits:

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

Location:

Bourne, Lincs

Ways of Working:

Hybrid (4 days office based, 1 day working from home)

Hours of work:

08.30–17.00, Monday-Friday

Contract Type:

12 Month Fixed Term Contract / Secondment

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.

This role is based in Bourne at a site specialising in the preparation of fruit, dressed salads, noodles, leafy salads, and stir-fry mixes. The site employs over 1,200 people and is conveniently located just 16 miles from Peterborough and 12 miles from Spalding.

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 readinessProduce and analyse people data and reports to support leadership decision makingWork collaboratively with Centres of Expertise across HR operations, payroll, reward, talent acquisition and learningDrive engagement initiatives, employee voice activity and delivery of the annual engagement survey action plansBuild effective relationships with unions, employee forums, wellbeing champions and temporary labour providersSupport reward processes including pay reviews and accurate HR system implementationStrengthen workforce planning and talent pipelines for both hourly paid and salaried rolesCoach 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 effectivelyStrong understanding of business priorities and how HR drives performance outcomesExcellent communication skills with the ability to adapt approach to different audiencesProactive, pragmatic and solutions-focused mindsetAbility to work to tight timescales within a fast-paced environmentStrong analytical capability with experience extracting and presenting people dataExperience delivering HR or people-focused projects through to completionStrong organisational skills with excellent prioritisation and time managementSound judgement with the ability to assess risk and elevate appropriatelyHigh 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
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contribution
• 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.