People Partner

at  Finsbury Food Group

Location: Scottish Cluster (Lightbodys, Hamilton; Johnstone Food Service, East Kilbride; Lees, Coatbridge and Eurocentral)
Hours: Monday to Friday (Hybrid Home Working and On-Site across Scottish sites )
Salary: Competitive, Career Development
We have an exciting opportunity to join the People team in a permanent role as a People Partner (HR Advisor), predominately based across our Scottish cluster of sites.
This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience with one of the UK’s largest bakery businesses, along with great opportunities for growth and development. At Finsbury Food Group, we are passionate about investing in our teams and creating great development opportunities.
To be successful in this role, the People Partner will have a good understanding of employee relations and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment. The People Partner will also need clear English verbal and written communication skills, as they will be multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment and liaising with colleagues, unions and suppliers at all levels daily. The successful candidate will be confident and engaging as they will need to effectively challenge and work with stakeholders on site to deliver the people agenda. They will have strong administration and planning skills. We use various People IT systems, so the candidate must have excellent IT skills and strong attention to detail.
This role offers the opportunity for Hybrid working with the ability to work approximately 1-2 days a week from home. We also offer on-going training and career development.
This is a career building opportunity, offering development at site and within the larger Group People team at Finsbury Food Group. Therefore, we are looking for someone who has drive and determination.

As the People Partner you’ll report into the Lead People Partner, implementing the Company’s people strategy and companywide initiatives.
You will partner with key stakeholders to embed the culture and values that are key to the business, supporting local levels of management and employees to ensure the best performance in a motivating environment.
You’ll manage employee relations cases which include, but not limited to; disciplinary, grievance, performance management, this may include coaching, providing advice, considering best practice and evaluating risk in relation to the best course of action.
You’ll support end to end recruitment, including salary benchmarking, recruitment briefs, advertising, job descriptions, person specification, interview scripts and social media recruitment campaigns. While ensuring the company applicant tracking system is accurate and maintained.
You will also build line manager capability by providing coaching to the line managers ensuring they work closely with Supervisors and Team Leaders to ensure that individual performance levels are achieved ensuring consistency of approach, providing guidance and support where appropriate. You will proactively work with your business area ensuring employee absence processes are being adhered to in line with the absence management procedure, work with the OH team in managing short and long terms cases to resolution.
Involvement in People focused projects and implementing People strategies is a key part of this role.
You’ll have to opportunity to work cross functionally with the larger Group People teams and other areas of the larger business.

Ideally this is you!

• Previous experience in a similar generalist People (HR) position in a fast-paced working environment.
• Ideally degree educated and/or a CIPD Level 5 qualification
• A sound working knowledge of UK Employment Law.
• Ability to work well under pressure in a busy, fast paced environment. The successful candidate must be able to perform a variety of duties whilst being resourceful and maintaining flexibility.
• Confident with communicating with a wide range of stakeholders.
• A working knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.
• Highly organised and detail oriented, with good administration skills
• Passionate about HR