HR Business Partner - Purfleet

Job description

Job Title: HR Business Partner - Purfleet
Salary: Competitive
Benefits: Bonus, Pension, Healthcare, Agile Working
Location: Purfleet, Essex

About the role

The HRBP for the Purfleet manufacturing site is the primary business partner to the Site Director and the leadership team. The key purpose of the role is to ensure that, through working with the other HR resources, a full HR service is delivered to the site.

In the role of HR Business Partner you have responsibility for all aspects of the people agenda. You will ensure by effectively partnering your client group that HR policies and processes are executed effectively. You will work closely with the broader HR community, using your business expertise & insight to diagnose talent, organisation, culture and capability needs in the business and deliver interventions to address these.

Key responsibilities

As HR Business Partner you will be responsible for:

• Understanding the broad business and functional context. Identify what is happening in the organisation and within the respective teams and to use this insight to improve business and team performance, and work with the site leadership teams to develop site strategy.
• Assessing the talent needs of Purfleet in order to design and deliver the most effective talent solutions.
• Leading on the change agenda in Purfleet, in particular ensuring a robust consultation and engagement process with the Trade Union and our employees.
• Using diagnostic tools to plan and implement development interventions for the leadership team and workforce.
• Leading the People pillars under the Unilever Production System. In particular lead the WCM People Development Pillar, and HR for Factories strategy, so as to ensure the optimisation of the organisation, and team design, so as to improve performance
• Working at both the organisational and individual level to assess learning & capability building needs. Give leadership and direction to the Training Co-ordinator(s) and associated teams.
• Being accountable for the site ER/IR strategy & deliver it through building a strong relationship with the Trade Union, coaching managers, and by ensuring a strong understanding and compliance with employment law and risk mitigation.
• Coaching the management teams on performance and reward decisions, to ensure compliance to policies
• With the Site Director leading the annual pay negotiations
• In conjunction with the HR Operations teams, ensuring the delivery of, and the compliance with, Unilever HR policies, processes and local employment/labour legislation for all employees.
• Managing the HR Operations Specialist, ensuring a good alignment to both the geography and pillar agenda for HR
• Undertaking HR projects as required to support the broader SC HR team
• Driving a performance climate through line manager coaching in the effective use of performance management processes (e.g. Personal Development Plan, Competencies and development planning);develop the behaviours (through feedback and coaching) that differentiate performance.

Essential experience, skills & qualifications

• University graduate with a background as an HR Generalist
• Experience in HR systems and processes.
• Good knowledge of key HR processes, roles and responsibilities across the entire HR lifecycle
• Experience in Employer Relations/Industrial Relations systems and process in a complex environment
• Ideally experience of HR service centre environment and/or expertise teams as well as hands-on HR management experience in the business
• Experience of working with Trade Unions and negotiations

Required leadership behaviours

Accountability & Responsibility
Growth Mindset
Consumer and Customer Focus
Bias for Action
Building Talent & Teams

Company Overview

Unilever is a global Fast-Moving Consumer Goods company in the UK and Ireland. We are already on target to achieve our huge ambition to double the size of our business globally whilst reducing our environmental impact. We are growing our business and also doing what is right for our consumers, community and environment. We are developing brands for people's lives today and for the changing environment tomorrow - making sustainable living commonplace.

Working at Unilever means that you get to take part in this exciting journey and work with amazing people who are really passionate about our large portfolio of famous brands. We want to improve billions of lives and you too can join us in making a sustainable difference.

How to Apply

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