People Advisor

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a someone looking to work alongside the People Partner to make Bigham's one of the best companies to work for in the UK, and develop a capable, empowered team at all levels.

Key accountabilities

1. Providing guidance on people practices to stakeholders to ensure all functions have

a great team of people with high levels of engagement

2. Support Team Members through to Team Leaders to ensure effective two-way

communication within and across teams

3. Provide regular up to date data for trend analysis and insight on people KPI's

4. Manage the employee life cycle from invite through to onboarding, issuing all

supporting correspondence (contracts of employment, end of probation period

letters)

5. Promote the health and wellbeing of our people

6. Facilitate payroll monthly process

7. Play a lead role in supporting managers with day-to-day people management and ER

activities within the teams

8. Support the site key deliverable activities as per the annual people plan

Key responsibilities

1. Through regular KPI reporting provided insight to managers and team leaders on

their team and people performance. Ensure regular review and action planning

to deliver improvements in policy, process and performance.

2. Provide confidential support and advice to Bigham's managers on people related

matters including team development, performance management and absence

management.

3. Facilitate the monthly payroll process to ensure all employees are paid accurately and on time.

4. Ensure active management of any recurring absence problem or health issue to support employee's wellbeing, and where appropriate engage with occupational health advisors.

5. Become a 'super-user' of the HRIS system rolling out better use of the system functionality to automate people processes and deliver user training where appropriate.

6. Support with café briefing, ensuring inclusion of all key news and people celebrations, timely set up and preparation of all awards and certificates and that noticeboards are updated in a timely manner.

7. Support with Bigham's parties, ensuring the events are clearly communicated, people are engaged with them, want to attend - and have a great time!

8. Support Bigham's annual employee survey, ensuring maximum participation 9. Manage Maternity & Paternity from application through to completion

10. Support with absence and conduct reviews where appropriate

11. Delivery of people related training workshops where required, for example return to work training.

12. Manage the employee life cycle from onboarding, issuing all supporting correspondence (contracts of employment, end of probation period letters).

13. Key member of the local site People team.

Experience

Previous experience of working in a generalist HR role

Demonstrable understanding of UK employment law and HR best practice

Experience of working collaboratively with line managers and leaders

Experience of working in a fast paced food manufacturing, FMCG or service organisation

Skills

Competent user of MS Office at intermediate level

Data reporting and analysis in Excel

Confident and effective communicator

Good interpersonal skills and ability to develop relationships

Able to present compelling messages and influence others

A great organiser with attention to detail

Ability to multi-task

Attributes

Passionate about great people and seeing people grow

Loves being part of a great team

Positive approach and personable

Self-motivated - able to set and manage priorities

Calm, logical thinker

Fair and balanced

Understanding of the need to maintain confidentiality

• Salary Competitive Salary + Bonus + Benefits
• Frequency Annual
• Job Reference charliebighams/TP/2999/481