Human Resources Business Partner

2 months ago


Banbury, United Kingdom Culina Group Full time

Company Description

Following years of accelerated growth Culina Group is now a £2.2billion+ turnover business, employing over 22,000 staff, with a fleet of more than 5,000 vehicles. Culina Group operates from over 100+ depots across the UK and Ireland, serving more than 1,000 clients over its framework of chilled, ambient, contract packaging solutions and fresh and baked goods.

**Company Overview***
**Culina Group** is a leading UK 3rd party food & drinks logistics provider offering dedicated and shared user warehousing and distribution solutions.
At Culina we have a winning culture, we believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thriveA place where you're valued, challenged, and inspired

**Job Description**:
Due to continued growth, we are now seeking a **Human Resources Business Partner** to join our HR Department team at our Banbury site.

As HR Business Partner you will have **multi-site (7 sites) responsibility**, working closely with key stakeholders and senior management to champion HR throughout the business.

This is a full time, permanent position working **Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm** (some flexibility will be needed on working hours depending on business need) offering a competitive salary, package with the opportunity to work for a forward thinking market leader.

**Job responsibilities of HR Business Partner include**:

- To act as first point of contact for all people related matters
- To drive improvements in business performance through effective people management solutions.
- To design, develop and implement (with Line Management engagement) solutions within the HR framework of activity that seek to add value and deliver required business changes in a legally compliant, expedient and cost-effective manner.
- Provide HR advice to Site Manager and their management teams.
- Partner Site Manager and act as first point of contact for all people related matters for the Depots.
- In conjunction with Site Manager, design and deliver effective people plans ensuring all areas of focus are included.
- Work closely with Site Manager to ensure survey action plans are created and delivered.
- Work with Site Manager to identify successors at every level of management structure and for key roles on site.
- Ensure development of individuals identified and delivered in conjunction with L&D team.
- Support L&D team in delivery of PDP’s for all Managers.
- Ensure under performance is addressed using appropriate policies.
- Work with Managers to ensure employee issues are resolved quickly and where possible informally.
- Coach Line Managers to ensure they are competent in tackling ER issues in an appropriate manner.
- Regularly review trends in ER issues; grievances, disciplinaries, reasons for leaving etc in order to identify potential issues, making recommendations to resolve to Site Manager involving senior members of the HR team as appropriate.
- Escalate high profile ER cases to Head of HR Ops/Senior HR Business Partner in a timely manner.
- Work closely with Occupational Health to effectively manage long term sickness cases.
- Conduct regular temperature checks with employees at each site ensuring engagement levels are as expected at site and taking appropriate action as required. Escalate bright spots and red flags to Head of HR Ops/Senior HR Business Partner.
- Fully embed and support site I&C meetings ensuring they affect change and are not just a tick box exercise
- Ensure organisational structures are aligned, up to date and support business goals
- Effectively manage the implementation of Group initiatives and priorities.
- Case management - advice and support grievance/performance/disciplinary/absence associated matters.
- Delivery of projects in line with legal obligations and company values ie TUPE, restructure, redundancy etc.
- Ensure all systems/employee files are up to date with accurate employee detail, including grievance, disciplinary and absence records.
- Challenge costs within the business to improve productivity.
- Influence the development of HR policies and processes to ensure they meet the needs of the business.
- Continuously review the local market place to foresee challenges ahead and address.
- Support Head of HR Compliance with Tribunal cases with ACAS intervention as appropriate.

**Qualifications**:

- CIPD Qualified, ideally level 5.
- HR legislative understanding/knowledge
- Proven experience in advising on HR associated matters (grievance, disciplinary, performance management, absence etc)
- Experienced in organizational change
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Highly organised
- Adaptable/flexible
- Positive and credible
- Able to build trust, respect and openness
- Inquisitive/challenging
- Business focused
- Excellent communication skills
- Proactive mindset
- Objectivity - partnering local business but retaining perspective
- High level IT skills using MS Office - Word, Excel, Power Point and outlook

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