HR Business Partner in Thirsk

People Partner / HR Business Partner | Thirsk, North Yorkshire |

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR professional to join our People Operations team as a People Partner. Based at our Head Office in Thirsk, with monthly travel to our Crick site in Northampton, you’ll report to the Head of People Partnering and partner our business leaders across Logistics and our UK central functions (Commercial, Marketing, Finance, IT and Technical).

You’ll work with business leaders and line managers to develop capability and manage talent, so that we achieve our strategic priorities. It’s a role for someone who is passionate about building capability and bringing out the best in people, in a fast-paced, lean and agile, private equity backed business.

Key Responsibilities

• People Agenda & Compliance: Lead the People added value, transactional, ethical and compliance agenda/activity to ensure the required standards are achieved.
• Development & Succession: Partner with the leadership team to ensure the right development and succession planning is in place to achieve the strategic priorities.
• Line Manager Coaching: Provide developmental support, coaching and direction to line managers to ensure colleagues perform to expected results, and that clear guidance is given on approaches to building capability.
• Accountability: Work with functional leads, enabling line managers to drive accountability at the appropriate level and support the managers to achieve this.
• Policy & Employment Legislation: Interpret HR Policy, support and coach managers in the practical implementation of HR practice and employment legislation to ensure compliance and consistency.
• Advisory Service: Provide a professional advisory service that gives effective solutions to people issues ensuring a balance between individual and business needs.
• Recruitment Planning: Lead the recruitment planning and activation of skills needs and utilisation in line with business needs over the short to long term.
• Trade Unions & Colleague Representatives: Engage with all relevant trade unions or colleague representatives on matters relating to Terms and Conditions, negotiations and general consultations.
• HR Team Leadership: Provide leadership and direction to the wider HR team to ensure that people are engaged, focused and delivering their potential.

About you

• CIPD qualified, or with equivalent experience gained in HR
• Experience in an HR leadership role, ideally in a multi-functional manufacturing environment
• Up-to-date knowledge of employment legislation
• Proactive and organised, able to work flexibly to meet deadlines and deliver results
• Demonstrative attention to detail and turning data into insights and action plans
• Confident building relationships and influencing at all levels across a diverse workforce
• Comfortable using Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and HRIS systems

At INSPIRED, we want to inspire colleagues to join, stay, develop, and achieve, creating an inclusive and sustainable business fit for growth. One of the enablers of achieving this, is to offer competitive pay and benefits to all colleagues.

Our Total Reward Benefits include:

• Hybrid working (4 days on site 1 report).
• Monday to Friday full time 37.5 hours between hours of 8am and 6pm. However, parttime and jobshare maybe considered.
• Annual bonus related to personal and company performance of 15%
• Enhanced pension, life assurance, and enhanced maternity, paternity, sick pay, and holiday buy options
• People and Pets First benefits, including paw-reavement and paw-ternity leave and bring your dog to work
• Healthcare cashback plan and Hertility at-home fertility testing
• Heavily discounted pet food and lifestyle benefits (Netflix, Spotify, or breakdown cover)
• Retail and gym discounts, electric car scheme, and free onsite parking and electric car charging
• Onsite canteen, free hot drinks, and modern facilities

👉 See all our INSPIRED benefits here

Inspired Benefits Book

About us

INSPIRED Pet Nutrition is an innovative, well-established, and award-winning pet food manufacturer employing over 1,200 colleagues across the UK and Europe. Our family of brands includes Harringtons, Wagg, Barking Heads & Meowing Heads, AATU, Blink, Butcher's, Classic, Pro-Nutrition, and Ultra Premium Direct, along with a number of partner brands that trust us to produce food on their behalf. Our kitchens in Thirsk, Kinmel, Crick and Plechatel, produce a wide range of dry, wet, and baked foods enjoyed by dogs and cats all over the world. Our ambition is simple: to become a global leader in pet nutrition.

Our Purpose: To create happiness

We’re on a mission to set a new standard of workplace happiness within the pet nutrition industry—one that looks like no other and feels like no other. Our culture is built on INSPIRED’s unique behaviours and colleague experience, creating an environment that excites, empowers, and puts people and pets at the heart of everything we do.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

INSPIRED Pet Nutrition is committed to building an inclusive workplace that reflects the diversity of the colleagues and communities we serve. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected and able to be themselves at work. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We make hiring decisions based on talent, potential and the experience you bring.

We are also committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and in the workplace, ensuring equitable access and opportunity for all. If you need any adjustments or support to take part in our recruitment process, please let us know by emailing recruitment@inspiredpetnutrition.com

#INDHP