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PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. Making every day favourites like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers and Monster Munch, to name a few! We have a fantastic reputation for developing and launching products that our consumers love. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers around the world more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories. The company generated $91 billion in net revenue in 2023. In the UK we pride ourselves on being a great place to work and in 2023 have been awarded the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality (formerly Times Top 50 Employers for Women) for the 18th year in a row and Top Employer for the 12th year in a row.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability at the centre of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com

We’re looking for a high performing HR Business Partner to join our Supply Chain HR team based in Coventry, to cover a maternity leave for a year. This role will cover the Coventry site, partnering the Site Director and support team. Thie role will form a key part of the Supply Chain People Leadership Team.

At PepsiCo, you won’t find our HR people sitting on the sidelines. They know the business inside and out, and work alongside their colleagues to ensure that people are at the heart of decision making. Our HR leaders are commercial, pragmatic and extremely collaborative – and whether they are a generalist Business Partner or a HR Specialist, their guidance is highly valued by the wider PepsiCo business.

This is an exciting HRBP role based at Coventry. We are looking for an experienced HR professional to provide leadership and support to the people agenda across the site, covering a population of circa 650 employees. This involves developing the overall people plans, delivering core HR processes, leading the talent agenda, building capability, shaping culture, and supporting our Employee Relations strategy. The role will also support the entire UK end to end Supply Chain on critical projects and the wider UK HR agenda. So there is plenty for you to get your teeth into!

• A key member of the respective HR and Site Leadership Teams, defining the people agenda and supporting the broader based operational agenda for the site and implementing plans.
• Lead on key elements of the Supply Chain People Plan as part of a multi-year journey.
• Lead the engagement agenda across the sites/teams, driving key people metrics and delivering opportunities to develop employee engagement and performance.
• Partner on business/team agenda and on complex organisational change projects and capability programmes.
• Coach, support and develop Employee Relations and Engagement team direct reports.
• Maintain a pulse of the function and provide constructive, actionable transparent feedback to help managers and employees to improve their performance.
• Flawless execution of all Core HR people processes i.e. Pay Review, Talent review etc.
• Lead and / or contribute to UK wide HR activity / projects.
• Manage site based HR budgets.
• Oversee site based recruitment, partnering effectively with specialist & business services colleagues.
• Champion the Career Growth, Capability, Inclusion, Health & Wellness, and Employee Relations agendas, acting as HR lead on activities.

• Proven generalist HR experience (or broad experience gained across multiple HR specialist areas) within a fast paced manufacturing or logistics environment, ideally with experience of working with unions. Experience of working within a manufacturing environment would be advantageous.
• Ability to set the agenda and proactively manage / monitor delivery of critical projects and balance competing priorities.
• Ability to work autonomously, making independent decisions based on sound judgement, while maintaining a strong sense of personal integrity and adaptability to navigate challenges and embrace new opportunities.
• Strong communication, influencing and collaboration skills to build effective relationships with all client groups.
• Able to build rapport and trust with stakeholders at all levels, demonstrating a collaborative approach, proactive problem-solving, and a positive and engaging attitude.
• Strong people manager – ability to manage and develop a small team.
• Process simplifier – ability to innovate and implement efficient standardised and simplified processes. Able to drive complex change and embed news ways of working.
• Demonstrating initiative regarding strategic business operation and challenges, identifying appropriate HR interventions as a people enabler to help the business achieve its’ goals.
• Effective coach to senior and middle managers, and able to deliver transparent and timely feedback to build awareness of development areas and improve manager capabilities.
• Strong HR execution skills as well as a good understanding of employee relations.
• Flexibility to support a 24/7 operation.

Why PepsiCo?

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, car allowance, critical Illness cover, flexible working, discounted gym membership, market-leading health and wellbeing support, generous company pension plus so much more. In 2024 we have enhanced our extended parental leave offering, now paying in full for 26 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks for paternity leave for those who have the respective length of service. We’re also pushing our benefits to be more pep+ by offering electric cars through salary sacrifice with a partnership with Octopus Energy.

We pride ourselves on our superb work force. The people in this business genuinely care about doing a great job! We have a common goal - strive to continuously improve our business performance and our own personal development. With the majority of executive team having been promoted organically, we are continually developing and encouraging our employees to push themselves further and offer them support with their continual learning. Career progression is incredibly important to us, and we provide great opportunities to grow a long term career.

A space to be y( )u

We want each and every PepsiCo employee to feel comfortable just simply being who they are and bring their full self to work. We celebrate what makes us all unique and know that to truly represent the communities around us we must reflect them in our workforce. That’s why we’ve empowered our employees to champion diversity and set up grassroots groups to drive our diversity and inclusion agenda from the ground up, embedding it in our culture. To find out more about our Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s) ask our team.

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with the Equality Act 2010, we value diversity at our company; it is an essential part of our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, pregnancy or maternity, marital/civil partnerships, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.

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