Job Summary
Strategic Human Resources partner for the Resins, Filtration and Media (RFM) business in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Responsible for delivering the local associate experience, shaping strategies for engagement, culture, talent and employer brand, while ensuring compliant governance and mitigating people risk.
Responsibilities
- People Strategy & Leader Advisory: serve as trusted strategic advisor to site leadership on people strategy, organizational health and workforce risk; coach and guide leaders on complex topics such as organizational change, policy interpretation and leader effectiveness.
- Governance, Risk & Compliance: own local people governance across sites, ensure consistent application of HR policies and standards, anticipate and manage risk including crisis and emergency response in partnership with site leadership and specialist teams; partner with the Labour and Employee Relations COE to assess risk, govern escalations and strengthen preventative practices.
- Talent, Change Leadership and Culture: activate global practices and policies locally, lead or sponsor key change initiatives and enable cross‑business collaboration.
- Engagement Execution: partner regionally to align engagement and workforce priorities across sites, ensure consistent execution within enterprise guardrails; advance associate experience through listening channels and people analytics to set priorities and guide decisions.
- Lead local HR projects/change of moderate‑to‑high complexity and deliver measurable improvements to the associate experience; use people data and insights to identify trends and recommend actions with HRBPs/COEs and business leaders.
- Drive continuous improvement and be process oriented; apply lean principles and problem‑solving to Human Resources.
Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree with proven and extensive progressive leadership experience in HR; MBA preferred.
- Proven experience within a single-site manufacturing environment required; experience across a multi‑site manufacturing environment preferred.
- Broad HR generalist expertise (ER, compliance, talent, engagement) and ability to translate global standards into locally compliant practices.
- Skilled in coaching and influencing People Leaders on sensitive matters and driving adoption of modern HR operating practices such as self‑service and case management.
- Track record in leading local HR projects/changing initiatives with measurable outcomes for associate experience.
- Continuous improvement and process oriented with familiarity of lean principles.
Location & Travel
This position reports to the HR Director for the United Kingdom and Ireland, is part of the UK and Ireland Human Resources Team located in Ilfracombe and will be an on‑site role with regular travel to the other RFM sites as required. Relocation assistance is available.
Benefits
The role offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to employees, including health care programs and paid time off, among others.
