HR Advisor
Location: Sudbury
Terms: Fixed Term Contract / Temporary Opportunity (until 31st October 2026)
Sector: Manufacturing / FMCG
The Opportunity
We have a fantastic fixed term opportunity for a talented individual to join our manufacturing site in Sudbury as a HR Advisor. This is an exciting role, where you will work closely with all areas of our factory providing best in class HR support, guidance and governance.
Manufacturing is all about ensuring the consumer receives a perfect quality product, at the right time and place whilst driving losses from our business to maximise efficiency & productivity.
Your Impact
This role offers a real opportunity to partner managers as their trusted Business Partner from day one, providing HR support, coaching and development in order to empower managers to provide a high level service. This role will provide the flexibility and autonomy of getting to the heart of people issues & working to develop fit for purpose solutions with a continuous improvement mentality.
Key Responsibilities:
* Be a key point of contact for any employee relations issues that arise supporting the site to ensure the appropriate resolution it achieved in a timely manner.
* Support the successful execution of the HR strategy across the factory site.
* Ensure our performance and talent management activities are understood, embedded and delivered, supporting our people and the factory to deliver against the business’s goals.
* Be a key driver in upskilling our line managers’ capability specifically around our people’s development enabling everybody to be the very best that they can be.
* Work as part of cross functional team to develop our HR practices and processes.
* Develop capability across the factory ensuring our people understand the HR model we work within and are able to efficiently access the solutions they need with ease.
What will make you Successful?
Ideally, you will have some Proven experience as an HR Advisor or similar HR role. With the ability to partner with the factory management team with strong influencing, communication, networking and analytical skills. Supporting the leaders in engaging and enabling their teams to improve performance.
You will also:
* Have Operational HR experience across the core HR processes (performance management, talent management, recruitment & resourcing, employee relations, organisational change).
* Be able to analyse and translate HR data.
* Have working knowledge of UK Employment Legislation would be desirable.
* Possess knowledge of HR policies, procedures, and employment laws.
* Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships at all levels of the organisation.
* Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
* Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
* Proficient in HRIS and MS Office Suite.
What’s on Offer?
This role offers a competitive benefits package, including a bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays plus flex leave, a pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.
We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken!