Job Description
Job Title: Human Resources Business Partner Reporting To: Head of People
Salary Range: £40,000 - £45,000 per annum
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (12 months)
Location: This is a hybrid role based at our Sheffield Office (Suites 1, 3, and 4, The Hive, Fountain Precinct, 1st Floor, Leopold Wing, Sheffield). The position will involve some travel across our northern UK depots and to our Head Office located in London.
Days/Hours per Week: 35 hours per week, working from 9:00am - 5:00pm, Monday – Friday, with an unpaid 1-hour lunch break.
Our Vision: A UK where “No good food goes to waste.
Following the recent merger of The Felix Project and FareShare UK into a single charity, we now operate as the UK’s national network of charitable food redistributors. We bring together independent organisations to rescue good‑quality surplus food from right across the food industry and deliver it to approximately 8,500 frontline charities and community groups. Every week, our combined efforts provide enough food to create nearly one million meals for people facing vulnerability.
With this merger, there has never been a more exciting time to join an organisation that is growing in scale, influence, and impact and is firmly at the forefront of public awareness.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities and as a Disability Confident Employer, we provide reasonable adjustments.
We aim to recruit from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our commitment to redistributing surplus food, come and join us.
Purpose of the Job
The HR Business Partner will provide a full HR service that fully supports the delivery of the company and site strategy and is aligned with charity HR policies and practices.
Duties & Responsibilities
· Provide proactive leadership and support in ensuring the delivery of all functional demands. Ensure the functional processes and procedures are appropriately controlled.
· Create and maintain an innovative environment that encourages colleague participation in raising standards of quality, teamwork and communication
· Provide leadership and direction to ensure that within the function, people are engaged, focused, developed and delivering to their full potential
· Champion health and safety on site, ensuring that a safe working environment exists for all colleagues and that, as a minimum, the department meets the standards set out in relevant health, safety and environmental policies.
· Commercial awareness and a proven cost reduction measures on site. All areas of cost reduction investigated.
· Monitor departmental KPI’s and challenge improvement when required to ensure targets are achieved and improved
· Works with functional leads, enabling line managers to drive accountability at the appropriate level, and supports managers to achieve this
· Interpret HR Policy and support managers in the practical implementation of HR practice and employment legislation to ensure compliance and consistency
· Provides a professional advisory service that gives effective solutions to people's issues, ensuring a balance between individual and business needs
· Lead the talent and succession planning agenda
· Support the leadership team with advice and interventions to enable the successful delivery of the business strategy
· Leads the delivery of the EDI strategy
· Decision-making authority:
· Must work with high levels of autonomy but seeks assistance as required
· Able to support and answer all queries from the team in a timely manner and bring them to a conclusion
· Liaises with support functions as required to support the overall business strategy
· Gives key stakeholders directional support in employment legal matters and compliance