Strategic HR Business Partner - Manufacturing Excellence

at  Imperial Brands

PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Works in partnership Head of Manufacturing Excellence along with business leaders across Function/Region/Cluster to drive strategic objectives and enhance business performance.
• Influences business strategy providing highly relevant insight into workforce and culture and translates the business strategy into People Strategies engaging with P&C CoE where appropriate, whilst building strong relationships with the COEs and People Services to leverage their expertise and support to help implement the people strategies and plans.
• Provide Leadership, facilitates change and identifies opportunities to unlock business value as well as Acts as member of relevant leadership teams.
• Supports the roll out of Global CoE policies and frameworks e.g. Talent & Succession Management, Connected Performance , Organisation Effectiveness, Organisational Health reviews etc.
• Works with senior leaders to support the roll out and embedding of strategic initiatives.
• Working with Head of P&C GSC EU Operations, the role will be responsible for managing, cascading and monitoring all Global processes as well as guiding and coaching Senior Leaders.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

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• Evidence of providing strategic P&C partnering within a Manufacturing environment.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills, quickly building rapport and trust across all stakeholder level across P&C and within functions/cluster.
• Ability to translate business strategy into people strategy along with excellent influencing skills to enable you to deliver through others to support the implementation of people strategy.
• Strong Leadership, Communication and Change Management skills along with experience Strategic workforce planning.
• Ability to coach and influence senior managers to enable a high performance culture.
• Evidence of working in a global matrix organisation and understanding of business complexities
• Ability to analyse and interpret data for insight and storytelling to inform data led decision making.
• Have excellent communication skills with fluency in English, both written and verbal.

ABOUT US

We’re a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all. Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference

Strategic HR Business Partner – Manufacturing Excellence
Europe Flexible (Factory Locations)
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced strategic HR professional to join our People & Culture team at Imperial Brands. As a Strategic Business Partner, you will be an influential and pivotal member of our P&C Community. Working closely with our Manufacturing Excellence COE, you will help to define, develop, and execute the People and Culture agenda and plan. You will act as an internal consultant and use your business knowledge and understanding of the Manufacturing Sector, to enable you to provide expert advice and challenge in order to align the needs of the business and the delivery of the Functions people priorities and plan whilst also ensuring the operational delivery and implementation of our P&C Operating Models.
We’re home to around 25,000 talented people worldwide and one of the special things about working at Imperial is that our people are leading the positive changes we are making, this is a really great opportunity to work closely with the Head of P&C GSC EU Operations provide strategic HR leadership and expertise to drive our business forward.