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HR Manager (FMCG / Food Manufacturing)

Employer
Burtons Biscuits Company
Location
Blackpool, Lancashire
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
22 Apr 2019

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
HR/ Resourcing
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

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 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 manufacture 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.

Company

Who Are Burtons Biscuits?

We are the home of Jammie Dodgers, Paterson Shortbread, Maryland Cookies and Wagon Wheels to name just a few! We are incredibly lucky to work in the world of making delicious biscuits!

‘We are a more successful and fun place to work when people feel free to be themselves’.

At Burton’s we believe in the power of being authentic, being entrepreneurial and being supportive to each other to meet our common goals…oh and did we mention having fun?!

Understanding our customers is crucial to our success, so having a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers is vital.

As a business we are committed to the continuous improvement of diversity and equality in the workplace and we welcome talented individuals from all backgrounds who share our Pride and Passion for Baking Great Biscuits and snacks.

Along with having amazing brands, we have secured long term agreements to allow us to manufacture a number of sweet & savoury snacks across Mars, Cathedral City & Marmite branded products. We also have several key strategic partnerships within the Retailer Private Label sector and our proud of the amazing biscuits we bake for our customers and consumers.

Within our Burton’s group, we have 6 bakery sites across the UK, located in Blackpool, Livingston, Edinburgh, Dorset, Isle of Arran and Llantarnam, with our head office in St Albans.   In total we employ circa 2,100 people around across our locations.

Burton’s Biscuits is owned by Ferrero and we are proud to be part of such a fantastic and successful business.  The Ferrero Group operates in more than 50 Countries and their products are sold in over 170 Countries.  We are delighted to be part of the Ferrero group which represents over 377,000 employees across the world and has a consolidated turnover of €12.3 billion (2020).

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LLANTARNAM
Cwmbran
Torfaen
NP44 3YL
GB

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