Description
Great People Work Here
How would you like to be part of exciting innovation pipelines, working with incredible international teams all dedicated to the evolution of a proud 300-year-old brand?
TwiningsOvo, International Markets (IM), operate across 100 exciting global markets, coming together to create the next generation of exquisite tea & Ovaltine ranges. Our teams operate in highly entrepreneurial commercial environments, suited to those who love business challenges and want to have a significant impact.
Here in IM, you’ll develop cross-cultural leadership skills quickly, leading projects across diverse, inclusive, and multi-cultural teams. If you’re a team player, dedicated to your craft, you’ll be sure to grow personally and professionally, taking advantage of the incredible career opportunities across our global TwiningsOvo network.
The People and Performance Manager will provide strategic people challenge and operational HR support for the business. You'll partner with the HRD for IM and the wider business to deliver organisational performance plans that will make a difference and create a great place to work for all - so this role would be ideal for a seasoned HR professional with experience across international and emerging Markets.
Key Responsibilities
This role supports the whole of International Markets organisational performance (OP) agenda with specific responsibility for execution of great HR in UK, Sweden and Dubai locations which include Finance, Marketing, and Distribution Management functions. The role-holder has to adapt and be prepared to “get stuck-in” to many and varying needs across the locations and teams.
There is a significant operational element to this role covering the full range of HR activities including: recruitment, employee engagement, capability, reward, employee relations, organisation development and change, international mobility, talent and succession management.
* Contribute to the thinking and own agreed aspects of the market organisational performance (OP) plans, to ensure IM can deliver its strategy and performance goals
* Using the OP plan as basis, initiate and deliver people initiatives that drive value and impact. Drive activities that will create a healthy, dynamic, high performance culture that takes account of local nuances but capitalises on the themes that unite
* Lead the discussion on performance & contribution using Thrive principles in areas of remit and ensure robust process is in place to understand individual potential, contribution, business impact and development needs
* Drive employee engagement and support IM managers to create an environment that is a great place to work, leveraging our employee listening platform, Engage. Understand the drivers of engagement and areas for improvement. Bring new ideas to the table that challenge how we think about the future of work for employees and build manager capability to discuss this with their teams
* Manage the talent process (MFOP) in areas of remit and create successful bench-strength and succession plans for the future.
* Responsible for strategic resourcing/recruitment partnerships and effective implementation of recruitment in areas of remit, including attraction strategies and conducting selection activities
* Deliver effective employment relations in areas of remit, compliant with local employment legislation
* Develop and lead organisational development initiatives in areas of remit, building leadership capability, values display and team development
* Coach, support and challenge key individuals as part on their development planning process
* Support the HRD on activities to ensure that the IM organisation structure is fit for purpose and any change activities are compliant with all local regulatory requirements.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
* Educated to degree level or equivalent, with a professional CIPD qualification and qualification in psychometrics
* Track record of balancing the operational and strategic HR agendas in an evolving, fast-paced global business unit
* Very strong all-round HR generalist knowledge across, recruitment, reward, development and employee engagement/relations agendas
* Strong evidence of delivering results, working with senior leadership and senior stakeholders across a matrixed international structure
* Strong evidence of driving capability within teams
* Supporting strategic HR interventions designed to enable business strategy
* Successfully line managing, leading and developing individuals and wider teams
* Organisation design and development
* Experience of working in an international organisation and business unit
* Understanding of employment law/principles/reward in a diverse landscape
* Developing and coaching individuals and teams
* Driving successful engagement initiatives.
Benefits
* Yearly bonus based on personal contribution and financial performance
* Flexible working options
* 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays and the option to buy and sell holidays
* Onsite Gym and Wellbeing Centre
* Perkbox – employee discount scheme with discounts online, in high street stores, cinema, holidays, restaurants and many more
* Pension scheme with your contributions matched for up to 10% of your salary
* Cycle to work scheme
* SimplyHealth Cash plan
* Onsite Staff shop and online staff discounts
* Bupa Private Medical Insurance
* Competitive Car Allowance
* Electric Car Scheme
* Access to LinkedIn Learning
* Access to ABF Networking, connect, collaborate, and grow across the ABF Group.
Twinings has become one of the world’s most renowned tea companies over its 300-year history because we never stop learning, never stop experimenting and never stop inventing. We take pride in our tea from bud to cup and have been working with some of our tea estates around the world since the early 18th Century.
More than 300 years later, the love of tea is still here - and so are we! We still sell tea from Thomas’s shop, and we still work hard to bring the most innovative new blends to tea lovers around the world. Now, we have over 500 varieties and our teas are cherished all over the world. Our expert master blenders taste more than 3,000 cups of tea every week. So you can be sure the next cup you taste will be every bit as good as the one yesterday or the day before.
Our approach to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
TwiningsOvo is focused on bringing together humans from different backgrounds and perspectives, providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We seek to create a diverse, equitable & inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, have a sense of belonging, and do meaningful work together. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against an applicant on the basis of their race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, disability, age or any other status protected by law and are devoted to promoting diversity across our workplace.
Applicants may be entitled to reasonable adjustments under the terms of the Equality Act. A reasonable adjustment is a change in the way things are typically done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity.
Please inform our Talent Acquisition or HR Shared Services team if you need any assistance completing your application or to otherwise participate in the application process.