Senior HR Business Partner - Manufacturing

Reckitt Benckiser LLC; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global health and hygiene company seeks a Senior HR Business Partner in Hull to lead HR strategies and enhance employee engagement. The role involves partnering with leadership, ensuring compliance with UK laws, and innovating HR processes. Candidates should have proven HR leadership experience in manufacturing or supply chains, strong knowledge of UK employment law, and excellent stakeholder management skills. This is an exciting opportunity to influence a significant manufacturing site and drive HR initiatives that align with broader business goals.

Benefits

Parental benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance

Short-term incentives

Qualifications

• Proven HR leadership experience in a manufacturing or supply chain environment.
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law and industrial relations.
• Experience working with trade unions and employee representatives.
• Track record of delivering HR strategy that drives business performance.
• Digital fluency and adeptness in leveraging data to inform strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the people agenda within the manufacturing supply function.
• Craft HR strategies that align with business objectives.
• Provide insights on workforce planning and talent development.
• Build strong relationships with trade unions.
• Drive initiatives to enhance employee engagement and wellbeing.

Skills

Strategic Mindset

Courageous leadership

Diversity and inclusion

Data and Analytics

Change management

Job description

Senior HR Business Partner - Manufacturing

City: Kingston upon Hull

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Human Resources

Our HR Team are the force for good that bring Reckitt's ambition to life. We work together to ensure the delivery of sustained profitable growth by unleashing the power of our purpose, people and performance. Now is an exciting time to be part of shaping the future of HR, influencing an exciting global organisation, while developing business and functional leadership skills, all at the same time. Whatever your role in our HR community, you'll take ownership of your projects and workstreams. We focus on developing our leaders to spearhead our culture and growth, so you'll be supported and mentored to deliver the right plans to drive business performance – and we'll celebrate the results with you along the way.

About the role

Role Location -Hull, HU8 7DS

We are looking for an influential, strategic, and engaging Senior HR Business Partner to lead the people agenda within our supply function in Hull. Our Hull site is a critical manufacturing site in Reckitt's global portfolio and people are at the heart of our success.

As the Senior HR Business Partner you will craft HR strategies that invigorate our organisational culture, uplift our talent management, and accelerate our business objectives. As part of the Senior Leadership Team, you'll mentor, encourage and enlighten, ensuring the alignment of our HR functions with broader business strategies, and making a profound impact on the future growth of Reckitt. You will lead a team consisting of HRBPs and Centres of Excellence to deliver both the strategic projects and the operational delivery of the site and it's colleagues.

Your responsibilities

• Partner with the Factory Director and leadership team to align HR strategy with business objectives
• Provide insights on workforce planning, talent development, and organisational design
• Lead employee relations strategy, ensuring compliance with UK employment law and Reckitt policies
• Build strong relationships with trade unions and employee representatives
• Drive initiatives to enhance employee engagement, wellbeing, and inclusion
• Identify critical skills gaps and implement learning & development programs
• Support succession planning and leadership development for site managers and supervisors
• Champion diversity and inclusion across the Hull site
• Embed Reckitt’s performance culture through coaching, feedback, and recognition programs
• Support managers in driving accountability and high performance
• Oversee HR processes including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and reward
• Ensure compliance with health & safety, labour laws, and ethical standards
• Lead HR projects and continuous improvement initiatives at the site

The experience we're looking for

• Proven HR leadership experience in a manufacturing or supply chain environment
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law and industrial relations
• Experience working with trade unions and employee representatives
• Track record of delivering HR strategy that drives business performance
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, and coaching skills
• Outstanding ability to lead change and instill passion within diverse teams
• Strong business acumen, value creation, OE, enterprise leadership, and experience in driving learning & development talent management engagement, compliance and DEI agenda
• Digital fluency and adeptness in leveraging data to inform compelling stories and strategies
• Creativity in addressing complex HR challenges with thoughtful and innovative solutions
• Skilled in various HR facets such as employee engagement, employment law, and people analytics

The skills for success

Strategic Mindset, Courageous leadership, Talent strategy, Diversity and inclusion, Data and Analytics, Data led storytelling, Organisational structure, Coach & facilitator, Change management, Execute plans, Employment engagement, Digital literacy, Commercial accumen, Careers & succession planning, Employee & labour relations.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.