Senior HR Business Partner

G’s Fresh Ltd; MARCH; On-site; GBP 50,000 - GBP 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A manufacturing company in March, UK, seeks an experienced Senior HR Business Partner to lead the people agenda. This role involves acting as a strategic advisor, managing HR operations across two sites, and influencing senior leadership with data-driven insights. Candidates should possess strong interpersonal and analytical skills with proven HR experience in a manufacturing environment. The position offers a dynamic work environment with various employee benefits including discounts, health plans, and development opportunities.

Benefits

31 Days holiday per year including bank holidays

Salary sacrifice pension scheme

Health Cash Plan

Learning, development, and training opportunities

Employee referral scheme

Cycle to Work

Eyecare contributions

Qualifications

• Proven HR Business Partner experience in a manufacturing or operational environment.
• Confident managing complex ER cases and leading change.
• Experience with strategic workforce planning.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic people partner to senior leadership teams across two operational sites.
• Lead strategic workforce planning and talent succession planning.
• Provide thought leadership and risk-based advice on employee relations.

Skills

CIPD qualified

Strong commercial acumen

Excellent interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Experience in employee relations

Education

CIPD qualification

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Senior HR Business Partner to lead the people agenda across two operational sites within a manufacturing/operational environment.

Acting as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, you will align HR strategies with business objectives, drive performance, and ensure best-in‑class HR delivery. You will also line manage an HR Business Partner, providing guidance, coaching, and oversight across day‑to‑day HR activity.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic people partner to senior leadership teams across two operational sites, shaping and delivering people strategies that directly enable business performance and growth.
• Collaborate closely with the people team Centre of Excellence to translate group people strategy into site‑level workforce plans, organisational design, and capability frameworks.
• Lead strategic workforce planning and talent succession planning, ensuring critical roles and future skills are identified, developed, and sustained.
• Provide thought leadership and risk‑based advice on employee relations, employment legislation, and organisational change, enabling confident and compliant decision‑making at senior level.
• Drive a consistent and high‑impact HR operating model across both sites, ensuring governance, compliance, and best practice are embedded.
• Lead, coach, and develop an HR Business Partner, building bench strength and elevating HR capability across the operational environment.
• Influence the design and execution of performance, talent, and leadership development strategies in partnership with the HR Centre of Excellence.
• Leverage people data, insight, and trends to inform strategic decisions, measure impact, and continuously evolve the people agenda.

About You

• CIPD qualified.
• Proven HR Business Partner experience in a manufacturing or operational environment.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to influence at senior level.
• Confident managing complex ER cases and leading change.
• Excellent interpersonal, analytical, and problem‑solving skills.
• Experienced HR background in a manufacturing environment.

The position is based on‑site, offering occasional work‑from‑home flexibility depending on business needs.

What we offer

• 31 Days holiday per year including bank holidays.
• Monday to Friday – 40 hours per week
• Great Place to Work accredited.
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme available
• Cinema and Sky Store discounts
• Supermarket & other retailer discounts
• Health Cash Plan
• Holiday discounts
• Life assurance & income protection
• Employee referral scheme
• Employee Assistant Programme
• Cycle to Work
• Eyecare contributions
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme.
• Learning, development, and training opportunities including mentoring.
• Regular social and charity events
• Engagement in local community & early careers events
• Onsite health checks, & annual flu jabs
• Regular wellbeing sessions

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.