An exciting opportunity has arisen for a someone looking to work alongside the People Partner to make Bigham’s one of the best companies to work for in the UK, and develop a capable, empowered team at all levels. Main Responsibilities Key accountabilities 1. Providing guidance on people practices to stakeholders to ensure all functions have a great team of people with high levels of engagement 2. Support Team Members through to Team Leaders to ensure effective two-way communication within and across teams 3. Provide regular up to date data for trend analysis and insight on people KPI’s 4. Manage the employee life cycle from invite through to onboarding, issuing all supporting correspondence (contracts of employment, end of probation period letters) 5. Promote the health and wellbeing of our people 6. Facilitate payroll monthly process 7. Play a lead role in supporting managers with day-to-day people management and ER activities within the teams 8. Support the site key deliverable activities as per the annual people plan Key responsibilities 1. Through regular KPI reporting provided insight to managers and team leaders on their team and people performance. Ensure regular review and action planning to deliver improvements in policy, process and performance. 2. Provide confidential support and advice to Bigham’s managers on people related matters including team development, performance management and absence management. 3. Facilitate the monthly payroll process to ensure all employees are paid accurately and on time. 4. Ensure active management of any recurring absence problem or health issue to support employee’s wellbeing, and where appropriate engage with occupational health advisors. 5. Become a ‘super-user’ of the HRIS system rolling out better use of the system functionality to automate people processes and deliver user training where appropriate. 6. Support with café briefing, ensuring inclusion of all key news and people celebrations, timely set up and preparation of all awards and certificates and that noticeboards are updated in a timely manner. 7. Support with Bigham’s parties, ensuring the events are clearly communicated, people are engaged with them, want to attend – and have a great time! 8. Support Bigham’s annual employee survey, ensuring maximum participation 9. Manage Maternity & Paternity from application through to completion 10. Support with absence and conduct reviews where appropriate 11. Delivery of people related training workshops where required, for example return to work training. 12. Manage the employee life cycle from onboarding, issuing all supporting correspondence (contracts of employment, end of probation period letters). 13. Key member of the local site People team. The Ideal Candidate Experience Previous experience of working in a generalist HR role Demonstrable understanding of UK employment law and HR best practice Experience of working collaboratively with line managers and leaders Experience of working in a fast paced food manufacturing, FMCG or service organisation Skills Competent user of MS Office at intermediate level Data reporting and analysis in Excel Confident and effective communicator Good interpersonal skills and ability to develop relationships Able to present compelling messages and influence others A great organiser with attention to detail Ability to multi-task Attributes Passionate about great people and seeing people grow Loves being part of a great team Positive approach and personable Self-motivated – able to set and manage priorities Calm, logical thinker Fair and balanced Understanding of the need to maintain confidentiality