Senior People & Performance Business Partner (IAI) – Maternity cover

Job title:

Senior People & Performance Business Partner (IAI) – Maternity cover

Company

AB Agri

Job description

The Role & Key ResponsibilitiesJob title: Senior P&P Business Partner (maternity cover)Location: UK (Peterborough or Marlborough) or attached to one of the European offices Hybrid basedContract type: Secondment / 12-14 month Fixed Term ContractCome and join our People & Performance team within Innovative Additives & Ingredients (IAI) starting in March 2025 to cover maternity leave. This is a great opportunity to gain international experience supporting approx 240 people across 26 countries within AB Vista and Livalta. Ideally based working a hybrid working pattern from our offices in UK or attached to our European offices with a requirement to travel internationally.The Senior P&P Business Partner plays a strategic role in aligning the People & Performance function with the overall business strategy supporting the P&P Director, the position goes beyond traditional HR tasks, focusing on improving business outcomes through strategic HR initiatives. The role also includes HR responsibility for the ISN team in Vietnam and line management of our P&P Advisor for Netherlands.What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborate with senior leadership to understand business goals and aligns HR strategies to support them in the business.
• Provide insights on workforce planning, organisational design, talent management, and organisational development to achieve long-term business achievements.
• Develop change initiatives to drive cultural transformation and organizational growth.
• Provide support to leaders and teams navigating market shifts, technological updates, or changes in company composition.
• Support the development and implementation of strategies for attracting, retaining, and developing key talent.
• Work closely with leaders on succession planning, leadership development, and performance management.
• Promote a positive work environment that supports employee engagement, diversity, and inclusion working with managers on a regular basis to focus on this.
• Implement initiatives to improve employee satisfaction and productivity.
• Use HR metrics and analytics to provide actionable insights for business leaders. Supports managers with business cases.
• Monitor key HR indicators such as turnover rates and employee engagement scores.
• Ensure headcount planning processes are in place and reviewed annually.
• Serves as a trusted advisor to executives and managers on HR-related matters, such as employee relations, organisational design, and workforce planning.
• Supply support and direction to managers for enhancing team performance and collaboration.
• Ensure that the business complies with labour laws, regulations, and internal policies.
• Identify and mitigates potential risks related to employee relations, workplace safety, and ethical behaviour.
• Works with the HR team to streamline processes and enhance HR service delivery.
• Ensure that HR policies and practices are aligned with business strategy and industry best practices.
• Support Agri wide projects as required.

What you’ll bring:

• Strategic thinking and business acumen
• Proven leadership and influencing skills
• Advanced communication and relationship-building abilities
• Expertise in talent management and organizational development
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of employment laws and HR best practice
• Organisational Development practices and knowledge
• High level of technical HR ability across all HR disciplines
• Experience of implementing significant change programmes
• People management experience
• Fluent in written and spoken English

Skills & ExperienceNot SpecifiedAbout The CompanyWe’re looking for trail-blazers, non-conformists, innovators.When you join us, you’ll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, company car/allowance, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you – from day one.About usWe’re AB Vista an animal nutrition technology company offering pioneering products and technical services to the global animal feed industry. We’re part of the AB Agri community of leading animal nutrition products and services businesses.We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers – and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.Application NotesWe hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.Agencies and media salesAB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them

Expected salary

Location

Peterborough – Marlborough, Wiltshire

Job date

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 08:37:26 GMT

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