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HR Manager (FMCG / Food Manufacturing)

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HR Manager (FMCG / Food Manufacturing) Position: HR Manager (FMCG / Food Manufacturing) Location: Blackpool Job type: Full Time, Permanent Hours: Full Time (Monday-Friday), can be offered on a 4 day week for the right individual Salary: £Competitive Who Are We? At Burton’s Biscuits we are the home of Jammie Dodgers, Maryland Cookies and Wagon Wheels to name just a few! We are incredibly lucky to work in the world of making delicious biscuits! As a flexible working business who encourage a happy family work life balance, this role can accommodate someone who is looking to work 4 days a week. Our Vision is to have a shared Pride and Passion for baking sensational biscuits & snacks that delight our consumers, shoppers and our customers. We’re the only major biscuit manufacturer in the UK to focus solely on biscuits, making us one of the key players in the market. We employ circa 1,600 people around the UK, with the majority of our workforce being based at our three main Bakery facilities in Llantarnam, Edinburgh and Blackpool. Our head office is based in St. Albans, with a subsidiary office is located in Blackpool & smaller but equally important Bakery based in Dorset. We had an amazing 2018, which has included seeing Wagon Wheels featured on the Great British Bake Off and our Llantarnam site featuring on ITV4, as part of their documentary 'Made in Britain'. Along with having amazing brands, we have secured a long term agreement to allow us to manufacturing a number of Mars Biscuit branded products & Cathedral City savoury snacks, we are also forming key strategic partnerships within the Retailer Private Label sector. In order to ensure we can continue to make fantastic biscuits, and to help us on this amazing journey, we are proud to announce that in early 2019 we completed the acquisition of a premium sweet and savoury biscuit manufacturer Thomas Fudge’s. This will only increase our baking capabilities across a number of brand new sweet & savoury categories. As the new home of Thomas Fudge’s premium biscuit brand, Burton’s Biscuit envisage Thomas Fudge’s as forming a key branded range across our existing product portfolio. What are we all about? Here at Burton’s Biscuit Company we pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. Our goal is to support our team in achieving their career goals. We do this by providing a working environment that offers opportunity, support, scope and pace of change. Our culture is the foundation of our business. We are fast paced, agile and fun. We don’t want to bore you with just a Job description - we want to tell you what it’s really like to work for us? So let’s start with ….… Why work as part of our HR team? You’ll join a HR family that is focused on making a better work environment for our colleagues and supporting everybody to be their Burton’s best is what we get out of bed for! Our HR team are passionate individuals focussed on ‘Making a Difference’ in a forward thinking and dynamic fun company. What does your typical day look like? As the HR Manager at our Blackpool bakery, and assisted by your HR team (3), you will play a key role in the execution of our people strategy which will involve translating the business HR strategy and overlaying with key site objectives, this will see you getting involved in: Driving positive relationships across the business through communication & via our employee engagement survey. Challenge the status quo and drive positive cultural change. Support and deliver business change initiatives, such as flexible working and lead the people aspects of change processes. Employee relation strategy, including participating in annual pay negotiations and revising agreements and terms and conditions of employment to ensure they are fit for the business. Ensure that the labour resources on site meet the demands and changing demands of the business, including the introduction on new shift patterns. Own all absence management processes and complete route cause analysis, to drive & implement solutions. Leading the retailer audits from an HR perspective. What are the key ingredients needed for the role? As the future HR Manager for our Blackpool Bakery, it is essential to be a well-rounded HR Generalist with experience of operating with senior stakeholders. You will need to be educated to degree level, with a CIPD qualification preferred but is not essential. A large focus of this role will be responsible for delivering the business strategy through your HR team, for this reason previous experience as a line manager is required. Final part of the mix. As Burton’s Biscuits is a leading brand across the FMCG sector, we are looking for someone who has HR experience within a medium/large FMCG environment. Along with this you must be able to demonstrate strong employee relations experience gained within a unionised environment. If you are ready to begin a career with real bite, we would love to hear from you so apply now by clicking the link below. Benefits & Package: Competitive salary with benefits that include a car allowance, 25 days holiday, Private healthcare cover for yourself & a partner, Enhanced company pension scheme, company bonus scheme, membership to GroceryAid who are an external support & advice network group, flexible working policy plus many more great perks. You may have had previous experience in the following: HR Manager, CIPD, Human Resources, Senior HR Advisor, Manufacturing People Manager, Senior HR Generalist etc.

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Returning To Work After Maternity Leave Integration back into the workplace after months of sleepless nights, pureeing carrots and walking in the park is not always as easy as you might think. In fact, it might shock you to know that a whopping 65% of women on maternity leave do not go back to their employer. Why? Some women choose not to return to work, but more often than not, they are left with no choice due to inflexibility from employers. According to our research, 44% of women don’t return to work at all and 21% return to a new more flexible employer. The stats raise the question – are employers doing enough to accommodate their employees changing needs and circumstances? Some employers are flying the flag for returning to work and even offer specially developed programmes to ease new parents back into work life. Others, sadly, are really letting the side down. Here are a few ideas on how you can stay ‘in touch’ and engaged with your employer while you’re away. If your employer is currently not using any of these methods, then make your case for them. It’s in their interests to hold on to good people! Keep-up chat Buddy up with a colleague and have a monthly catch-up call. You can stay in the loop and be involved in decisions (if you want to!) whilst on maternity leave. (Obviously, this won’t be everyone’s cup of tea. Some parents want to 100% switch off from work when they’re on maternity leave, which is totally fair enough. It’s all down to personal preference.) Phased return Following an initial catch-up session, ‘phase’ back into the workplace on your return after maternity leave e.g. be ‘in’ but not ‘on’. This helps new parents to re-acclimatise to the world of work. Flexible working Flexible start and finish times, remote working, part time, full time condensed hours, term-time only and job shares are just some of the options available. If your employer doesn’t offer flexible working, make the case for it! Read our blog on asking for flexible working hours. Shared paternity leave Consider shared paternity leave as an option, meaning each parent spends less time out of the workplace but your baby has that quality time with both of you. Having a baby is an emotional time and will change your life forever, so it’s very difficult to plan ahead. You just don’t know how you will feel tomorrow, let alone six months or 12 months down the line. You may not want to go back and be fortunate enough not to have to, or you may want to return on a flexible working pattern. Or perhaps, you want to carry on just as before. Everyone is different. Maybe you are thinking of a change in career direction. If this is the case it may be worth talking to a career coach. You can read more about this on our blog. Whatever route you choose to go down, there are always options available. If your employer is not parent-friendly and flexible, encourage them to be! There are plenty out there who are!

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