People and Culture Business Partner
Westfalia Fruit
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Kings Hill • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Partner with senior leaders and managers to provide pragmatic, commercially focused People & Culture advice.
- Build trusted relationships, coaching leaders through people decisions and organisational challenges.
- Translate people strategy into practical actions that support business performance and engagement.
- Deliver end-to-end support on employee relations matters, including absence management, performance, disciplinaries and grievances.
- Provide clear, confident guidance on UK employment law and best practice.
- Support organisational change initiatives and transformation projects.
- Identify opportunities to improve people processes, ways of working and employee experience.
- Use HR data and systems (including Deel and MS D365) to provide insight, support decision-making and track outcomes.
- Ensure accurate people data and contribute to reporting and analysis.
Requirements
- Proven experience in a Senior HR Advisor role within a commercial, fast-paced environment, demonstrating readiness to step into an HR Business Partner position.
- Strong, hands-on employee relations experience with solid UK employment law knowledge.
- Confidence working with senior stakeholders and influencing at management level.
- A pragmatic, solutions-focused approach, comfortable both “doing the do” and thinking strategically.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a changing, ambiguous environment.
- Experience using HR systems and people data to inform decisions.
- Experience in FMCG, food production, manufacturing or retail environments would be ideal.
- CIPD qualification (or working towards) would be advantageous.
Benefits
- Competitive salary (dependent on experience)
- Discretionary company bonus
- Hybrid working
- 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
- Private Medical Insurance
- Company pension scheme with life insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme with Medicash
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
employee relationsUK employment lawpeople strategyabsence managementperformance managementdisciplinariesgrievancesHR data analysispeople processes improvementorganisational change
Soft Skills
relationship buildingcoachinginfluencingpragmatic approachsolutions-focusedstrong communicationadaptabilitystrategic thinkingdecision-makingtrust building
Certifications
CIPD qualification