HR Business Partner

**Job Title**: HR Business Partner - Cooplands

**Location**:Blackburn, BB1 2FA

**Hours**:Full-Time / 12 Months Fixed Term Contract

**Salary**:Dependent on experience

**Role Overview**:
Our EG team require a passionate Business Partner Reporting into the Head of HR, the HR BP will be responsible with our foods businesses and working collaboratively to drive our Business and HR strategy forward.

Working closely with the operational team you will help to implement the business / HR strategy from a people perspective. Your role is to help the business to create a culture and people approach which will support our strategy. Therefore, you must developmeaningful relationships with key people and influence decisions by using data, reports and evidence.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Support organisational effectiveness by developing and implementing solutions aligned to strategy
- Lead the HR vision, including role modelling personal and team leadership and taking an active role in ensuring the HR strategy is embedded successfully
- Engage with the operational management teams in order to understand their business needs, and incorporate this into the HR strategy, with a focus on improving performance, reducing waste and improving efficiency
- Contribute to, and where accountable define policies and processes that support the HR strategy and objectives
- Drive consistency of approach, simplification and standardisation across the business in attracting, managing and developing talent to support current and future organisational needs
- Work closely with all colleagues to ensure that tools and policies are aligned, enhance employee engagement and ultimately improve performance
- Use data and analytics to measure performance - and cascade to the business in order to identify improvement opportunities, e.g: Recruitment, Retention, Sickness absence, Employee Relations
- Provide expert input across a range of HR issues
- Design and deliver high impact solutions that meet the needs of the business, and collaborate with the L&D partner to ensure training needs analysis, talent management and succession programmes are in place within the business area
- Coach and build the capability of senior managers to anticipate and pre-empt organisational issues
- Participate in relevant projects, leading and championing as appropriate
- Keep up to date with external trends and best practice in the areas of expertise and HR more broadly
- Proactively share best practice and intelligence within HR function
- Build relationships and form alliances to identify opportunities for innovation and drive improvements in EG’s external reputation and presence
- Understand and anticipate the need for change, diagnose the underlying
- issues and build the case for change with stakeholders
- Build frameworks to plan and manage the continuous process of change including dependencies, risk, potential scenarios and options to mitigate
- Be an ambassador for the function, represent HR internally, and externally
- implement HR initiatives within the business

**KPI & Metrics**
- Labour Turnover
- Retention rates
- External reputation measures (Leaver surveys/Glassdoor/Indeed Reviews)
- Sickness absence
- Employee relations performance, and associated costs
- Talent management metrics
- Compliance metrics (WTR/NMW)

**Person Specification**:

- CIPD Level 5+
- Minimum 5+ years HR experience in a generalist role
- Experience of operating in a multi-site business
- IT literate - excel, PPT, word, HRIS
- Significant employee relations experience, and can evidence complex case management
- Exposure to redundancy and TUPE processes

**Benefits & Rewards**

To show our appreciation for your hard work, we have a range of benefits you can take advantage of
- 25% Cooplands Staff Discount
- 28 Days Annual Leave including bank holidays and rising up to 33 days with long service
- Pension Scheme
- Progression & career opportunities
- Recognition rewards
- Discretionary Sickness pay
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme