HR Manager (Factory Based)

at  Pasta Evangelists

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for an HR Manager to provide valuable guidance on how to recruit, manage, evaluate and retain employees at our Pasta Factory in North Acton.
As an HR Manager, your responsibilities will include recruiting in partnership with managers, providing them with interview tips, researching and implementing performance appraisal methods, and designing and implementing company policies.
To be successful in this role, you should have an academic and professional background in HR, particularly factory HR experience, together with a good understanding of employment law.
Ultimately, you will ensure that our People Team nurtures a healthy working environment and contributes to achieving our business goals.

ABOUT PASTA EVANGELISTS

Pasta Evangelists was born seven years ago out of a desire to become the authority in fresh pasta. We’re on a mission to reimagine and elevate pasta as a category, which is worth a staggering £3.8bn yet has seen little innovation for decades.
Since launching our original fresh pasta recipe kit service in 2016, we have built a cult following of British pasta lovers – our Evangelists – who are passionate about discovering the breadth and variety of pasta, as well as the irresistible stories behind it.
Today, Pasta Evangelists is backed by Barilla (the world’s biggest pasta company) and is proud to be the UK’s biggest pasta brand by revenues, as well as one of the UK’s fastest-growing startups. In addition to our website, our recipe kits are also available for customers to purchase through major online retailers like Ocado & Amazon Fresh. Londoners can also treat themselves to fine Italian dinings at our high-end Harrods Pasta Bar, or learn to make our signature dishes from scratch at our viral Pasta Academy, where we welcome thousands of pasta lovers every month.
Most recently, we’ve been busy disrupting Britain’s pizza-centric Italian takeaway market with a brand new fresh pasta takeaway concept, available on pastaevangelists.com as well as major delivery players like Deliveroo, UberEats and JustEat. With more than 40 kitchens across the UK, we’re expanding coverage to new cities on an almost weekly basis (including our first openings in Scotland and Wales!). We’ve also opened the UK’s biggest pastificio (which, in Italian, means pasta factory, but ‘pastificio’ better reflects the type of fresh, artisanal pasta we produce) in Acton, West London, allowing us to make ever more exciting and ambitious pasta and sauces for our customers.
Given our ambitions, we are looking for exceptional professionals to lead our business through its next growth chapter

• Join our Pasta Evangelists team as a HR Manager reporting into the Chief People Officer supporting our Production site.
• Understand the scale-up culture and knowing how to resolve queries at a fast pace.
• Be the first point of contact for People queries and supporting with various People queries throughout the teams.
• Coaching and supporting the managers on site with people cases to ensure people policies are conducted accurately and adhered to in a timely manner.
• Supporting with Employee relations, absences, capability, disciplinary, grievance processes, etc.
• Conducting right to work checks for new starters and manage VISA expiration.
• Research and recommend performance evaluation methods (e.g. employee appraisal systems).
• Support the Chief People Officer with embedding the people policies.
• Review and update job descriptions.
• Train hiring managers on candidate interview evaluation techniques.
• Build a training policy designed to accompany change and growth. Work on individual development plans for the factory employees.
• Conduct internal surveys to gather employee feedback and identify areas of improvement.
• Pilot and promote the associated action plan.
• Implement communication rituals to the teams to give meaning to decisions and maintain motivation.
• Address employee requests and potential issues (e.g. grievances).
• Assist in organizing employer branding initiatives.
• Act as the point of contact for hiring managers, employees and other HR team members.
• Supporting with updating our HR systems with employee records.
• Running our performance review process and engagement surveys.
• Ensuring New starter onboarding have been completed.
• Build and maintain our internal people processes.
• Support on important projects that benefit the wider business.
• Comply with and enforce the safety instruction on the site.