So, what will I be doing?
At Yeo Valley, we're about more than just making great food – we're here to Nurture & Nourish People & Planet by Making Great Food the Right Way. Forever. As a co-owned business, we invest in our people, encourage growth, and believe in doing things properly.
We aim to be a successful, visionary and purposeful food and farming business powered by people who feel inspired by our purpose and valued as co-owners.
Key responsibilities:
Employee Relations
1. Act as a point of contact and escalation for People Services Assistants, People Managers and People Partners, regarding the interpretation and application of People Policies.
2. Works closely with our people managers to provide procedural advice and guidance, enabling them to resolve people challenges and employee relations cases whilst ensuring our co-owners are treated fairly, consistently and with our values in mind.
3. Attends formal meetings to note take, provide HR Advice/guidance and ensure that case files are appropriately maintained with required systems.
4. Has oversight of attendance management, ensuring compliance with the policy, escalating concerns where appropriate.
5. Supports and coaches people managers in line with Yeo Valley’s Supporting your Performance at Work Policy, ensuring robust management of performance improvement processes.
6. Ensures that People Policies are both maintained, reflecting the most up to date legislative requirements, but also reviews availability and content ongoing to ensure that policies provide an appropriate framework – and align to YV purpose to ‘nurture and nourish people & planet’ and culture of co-ownership.
7. Works with both People Services & People Partners to review case logs and individual case management information (for respective functions/departments), ensuring fairness and consistency in application (across all departments/functions), and to undertake analysis of people activities – making recommendations for coaching/training opportunities to improve overall line manager capability.
8. Acts as a data expert, working with both People Services, IT and stakeholders, to build a deep understanding of people data, analytics and metrics required by key stakeholders and create bespoke reports and dashboards.
9. Where appropriate, leads workshops/training with People Managers to upskill and provide information on new toolkits/procedures.
What good looks like for this role
10. A fantastic team player
11. Proactive in approach, identifying opportunities for improvement
12. Demonstrable and relevant experience working in a similar ER Specialist/HR Advisor role
13. Has an in-depth and up to date working knowledge of UK employment law
14. Is analytical with an exceptional degree of accuracy and proven attention to detail when working with data
15. Is great at producing reports and confidence in working with data, figures, systems, and spreadsheets
16. Has a strong technical knowledge of HRIS systems. Advanced level of MS Office, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
Sounds interesting, what do I need?
Essential:
17. Employee Relations knowledge
18. Experience of providing best practice advice, using internal policies
Desirable :
19. CIPD – level 5
20. Policy creation
21. FMCG/Manufacturing background
Why should I join the family?
We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.
We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer. It goes without saying that you'll have access to free parking, top of the range personal protection equipment (PPE) and your own locker. You'll also receive the following: Competitive holiday allowance non-contributory pension scheme life cover healthcare cash back plan cycle to work scheme subsidised Yeo Valley products and services preferential rates with our partners learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow