HR Business Advisor

at  Ford Motor Company

We have a part time, 12-month fixed term opportunity to join us at our Parts Distribution Centre based in Daventry, Northants. It’s an exciting time to join the team as we support the business through a period of growth and the ever-changing business challenges facing the distribution centre, and support the HR team to modernise the way we work.
As the HR Business Advisor, you will work in a small friendly HR team to support the distribution centre People Leaders implement strategies to manage c350 employees in largely manual, warehouse roles. Both the hourly and salaried employees are represented by our Trade Union partners who we work with closely.
The role is broad ranging, with a strong employee relations element, but also the opportunity for an individual who enjoys HR project work, management/analysis of data and professional HR advisory.

The successful candidate will have a deep knowledge of HR products and services, will be comfortable with ambiguity, enjoy being challenged professionally and have a flexible mindset.

• Your previous HR experience is something we’d like you to share with us, particularly with a focus on business partnership and working within a manufacturing or distribution environment.
• Coaching business partners is an integral part to the role, so you’ll need to provide examples of where you have negotiated and persuaded others, provided council and influenced.
• HR administration is an inevitable part of the role, and you will need to be able to demonstrate varied HR administrative skills and examples of projects you have worked on.
• We have Trade Union partners to work with and we’d like examples of working in such an environment and how the relationship worked.
• Absence management and disciplinary actions are critical in managing our business and experience with these processes is important.

EDUCATION

Education is important to us; ideally you ’ have’ a Degree or equivalent/CIPD in hand. But if that’s not the case, and you have experience/skills you feel are relevant to the role, we’d be interested to hear from you.

Please refer the Job description for details