People Hub Coordinator

**People Hub Coordinator**

**Location**: Cardiff

**Hours**: Monday to Friday (Hybrid working)

**Salary**: Competitive, Career Development and CIPD Qualification

Do you want a career in HR?

Do you want to develop your career in one of the UK’s leading bakery businesses as we go through a period of growth and investment?

Then we have an exciting opportunity for a graduate to take their first step into a career within HR as part of a high performing team providing HR support across Finsbury Food Group

Finsbury Food Group is a leading speciality bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards, and build long-term relationships with major multiple retailers and the foodservice channel. The bread for your morning toast, ready for butter-spreading or egg-dipping. The candle-filled centrepiece for a memorable celebration. The buns, muffins and other treats that turn teatime into quality time. We make 75% of the UK’s sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes, tray bakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes This is what we do, and why we’re in business. Baking brilliance makes every day special.

We are recruiting for a HR generalist to join as a People Hub Coordinator. This is a fantastic time to join and help shape the evolution of HR service delivery across the group as it evolves to more digital and remote ways of working. Initially the People Hub Coordinator will provide HR support within their specific geographical cluster, then transition to delivering support to all business units across the group.

They’ll provide generalist day-to-day HR support and services to the company within the People function. The People Hub activity covers the full employee life cycle, and so the successful individual will gain exposure to the full breadth of HR, making it the ideal grounding for someone who is at the start of their HR career.

To be successful in this role, the individual will be degree educated, enjoy working in a fast-paced changing environment and comfortable adapting and contributing to change. They’ll have excellent verbal and written communication skills as they’ll need to support various employees across the company. They’ll have good IT skills and the ability to learn new systems as we’re currently implementing a new HR system which they will have an integral part in delivering this project.

This is a career building opportunity, offering CIPD membership, on-going training and development within the hub team, the site People Partner teams and group Communities of Expertise which offers opportunities in Learning and Development, Recruitment, HRIS, Projects and further HR business partnering roles. Therefore, we are looking for someone who has the drive, determination and is truly passionate about HR.

As part of the recruitment process, we will be holding an on-site recruitment assessment day which offers you the opportunity to learn more about us and the role, to ensure this is the right opportunity for you.

**This is what you’ll actually do**

As the People Hub Coordinator you’ll report into the HR Manager and, along with other People Hub Coordinators in the cluster and across the wider group, provide HR generalist administrative support, guidance and advice to managers and employees.

You’ll utilise business systems to administer employee matters and associated correspondence, acting as first point of contact for HR related queries. You will also gain exposure to a wide variety of employee relations cases, along with interacting with the Company’s Occupational Health provisions as and when required.

As the People Hub Coordinator you’ll also support and lead with various recruitment campaigns including advertising, screening, and onboarding, where you’ll own the onboarding process for all new employees in our bakeries, ensuring compliance and the best experience for those joining the business. You will also get exposure to the Learning & Development cycle for all employees and work with managers in Talent management.

As part of the wider HR Team you’ll have the opportunity to work on larger Group continuous improvement projects relating to Diversity and Inclusion, Policy and Procedures, Health and Wellbeing, Community and Employee Engagement, Social Media, while being an active advocate in building our Employer Brand.

**Ideally this is you**
- Degree educated or equivalent experience working in a similar HR position
- Confident with communicating with a wide range of stakeholders.
- A working knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.
- Highly organised and detail oriented, with good administration skills
- Passionate about HR

**What’s in it for you**
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival
- Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
- Death in Service Benefit
- Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
- Retail discounts accessible via our Benefi