HR Manager

Our clients are the proud guardians of over 130 years of baking experience that make up their iconic and much-loved brand. They produce bread and bakery products created with goodness at the heart of each. They deliver around 1.3million loaves, every dayof the week throughout the UK and Ireland, where they also make Mothers Pride and Ormo products.

They are 2,800 people working within 8 bakeries, 1 flour mill, and 2 regional distribution centres across the UK. Their success is a result of the hard work of their people; they are experts in their field whether it’s baking, manufacturing, logistics, engineering,or the many departments within the central functions team based at head office in High Wycombe. They are a values-led business and expect their colleagues to live, breathe, and embed Quality, Accountability, and Trust into their ways of working.

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced HR Manager to join the team to enable the company to deliver on its vision of being the best quality brand in bakery, by delivering HR plans that support the delivery of business strategy through maximisingthe organisations capability and resource and ensuring quality is at the heart of everything we do.

Working with the central support and Supply Chain HR teams, some of the key accountabilities include;
- Driving HR excellence and process efficiency
- Delivery of the people strategy, ensuring best practice HR excellence, supporting the delivery of business goals, and ensuring consistency and value added support in all areas of HR including Employee Relations.
- Delivery of collaborative working practices that deliver continuous improvement in all areas of HR operations
- Ensuring simplification and simplicity in approach, to enable effective focus and delivery of business objectives
- Supporting all central and support programmes to deliver best in class performance
- Identifying the key challenges that the business is facing and aligning HR to deliver solutions.
- Management of the Apprenticeship programme

Ideal experiences / Qualifications / capabilities:

- Graduate / CIPD qualified
- Experience in FMCG - ideally manufacturing and food
- Test employee relations experience
- Delivery of change management programmes
- Experience in TU negotiations - pay awards and T&C reviews
- Strong knowledge of employment law
- Performance management techniques
- Resourcing experience at all levels
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills - ability to influence and persuade
- Results oriented, resilient and highly motivated

**Why work for our client and their benefits**:
Our clients understand the importance of looking after their colleagues, so they provide a variety of benefits in addition to salaries. The benefits they provide are as varied as the people who receive them but they are offered with the intention of creatingvalue to them personally over and above their salaries
- There is a range of colleague benefits available, which individuals can select based on their needs.
- The benefits scheme offers a variety of savings and cashback offers on day to day living and much more including eyecare vouchers, and a healthcare scheme to suit everyone. It also includes a Cycle to Work scheme where you can obtain a brand new bike ata significant saving
- They offer enhanced annual leave and maternity/paternity leave, and flexibility where possible in order to create a healthy work-life balance
- They celebrate loyalty with generous long service and colleague recognition schemes
- They offer three levels of pensions

Our client values diversity and is committed to promoting equal opportunities in the workplace. Every job applicant, employee or worker will be treated fairly and equally with dignity and respect regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, maritalor civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, social class, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religious belief, union membership, political opinion, sex, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic.