HR Advisor in Hull

BBF Ltd is one of the UKs leading ambient cake manufacturers of retailer own label, licensed and branded cakes, supplying recognisable retailers across the UK and European market. We are passionate about our products and aim to put the customer at the heart of everything we do.

We are currently looking for a HR Advisor to join our team in Hull.

Who are we looking for?

The successful candidate will have experience at HR Advisor level as well as experience in the management of Employee Relations caseload. You will have a good understanding of employment legislation and will be experienced in end-to-end recruitment processes. A CIPD qualification level 5 or equivalent (or working towards) is preferred.

The role of a HR Advisor at BBF Limited

The purpose of the role is to provide a customer focused, comprehensive and professional HR service to employees and managers by managing and developing processes, ensuring adherence to policies, procedures and legal requirements. Responsibilities include:

• Provide expert and professional advice on all Human Resources queries/issues to Managers.
• Support Managers in managing the recruitment and selection of new employees, ensuring that high quality people are recruited to all vacancies.
• Liaise regularly with management teams to achieve a good understanding of their issues and ensure timely interventions where applicable.
• Liaise with the Occupational Health Provider, as necessary.
• Advise and support Managers on restructuring issues, including support with redundancy, redeployment and early retirement cases, in accordance with the policy and employment legislation.
• Provide advice, guidance and training to all Managers on the application of HR policies, practice and employment law.
• Maintain accurate staff records and provide information, as required within the limits of GDPR.
• Ensure that the HR department is audit ready at all times to support ethical, technical and site audits.
• Undertake project work and policy development work as assigned by the HR Manager.
• Provide advice and guidance to managers and staff on all employment matters, ensuring that innovative solutions are implemented to support the needs of our customers.
• Use KPI data to identify trends and patterns in forming business decision making and act upon relevant HR KPI information in a timely manner.

Who are BBF Limited?

BBF Limited are one of the UKs leading ambient cake and chilled dessert manufacturers of retailer own label, licensed and branded cakes, supplying recognisable major retailers across the UK and European market. Our team of experts develop and manufacture a wide range of high-quality ambient cake products across several different categories including celebration cakes, mini rolls, mince pies, fruit pies and a wide range of chilled desserts including cheesecake, crumbles and sponge cakes.

With recent investment and acquisitions taking us to nearly 1,400 direct employees, this is an exciting time to join BBF Limited! We are continually looking to grow, but we can only do that with exceptional talent across all levels and disciplines of the business.

On top of making some delicious cakes and desserts, we do a lot of fun stuff too! Whether that be Christmas fun days, pancake-flipping competitions, Red Nose Day events or odd-sock days, you’ll be coming to work smiling.

What benefits do we offer?

• Financial: Pension, 4x Life Assurance/Death in Service Benefit, Access to Company Shop - a discounted re-distributor of surplus food and household products.
• Health & Wellbeing: 25 days holiday (plus statutory holidays), 24/7 Access to a GP, 24/7 Bereavement Service.
• Personal & Professional Development: Dedicated in-house Learning & Development/Training team, Online training platform with access to 100+ training courses.
• A few other bits: Quarterly and Yearly BBF Star Awards recognising those who have gone above and beyond, Free on-site parking, Onsite canteen, Onsite Cake Shop (majorly discounted).

Recruitment Agencies

All our recruitment is managed centrally via the internal recruitment team. We operate a recruitment PSL when we require assistance, and we aren’t adding to this at present. Any agency assistance will be instructed accordingly and therefore any CVs sent to any BBF Limited employee will be treated as a gift and won’t be liable for a fee. Please don’t speculatively contact us about this vacancy or any other vacancy.