Senior HR Advisor in Merthyr Tydfil

Kepak is one of Europe’s leading food companies, with manufacturing sites across Ireland and the UK. Kepak’s vision is to be a successful, sustainable, future-ready Food Business with differentiation at its core that is a great place to work. This vision is underpinned by our values of Responsibility, Ambition, Passion for Food, and teamwork. Kepak Meat Division UK operates across 3 manufacturing sites with 2,000 employees, producing a range of quality meat and protein-based food products for retail and foodservice customers. The division focuses on providing exceptional service and value to our stakeholders.

We are recruiting for a Senior HR Advisor to play a pivotal role in our organisation. If you’re passionate about supporting people, driving positive change, and delivering excellent HR support, we’d love to hear from you. This is a permanent, full time position working 37.5 hours per week with a competitive salary.

The Senior HR Advisor plays a key role in the HR function, supporting the implementation of people policies, processes, and initiatives that enhance employee engagement, organisational capability, and overall workforce effectiveness. Supporting the HR Manager, contributing to agreed site people plan actions, enabling consistent operational HR delivery. Acting as a critical link between the HR Manager and HR Advisors, the Senior HR Advisor helps to support the site people strategy into high-quality, practical day-to-day HR delivery. The role provides guidance, oversight, and support to ensure policies and people initiatives are applied consistently. As a trusted people partner, the Senior HR Advisor will help to support by providing expert advice on complex HR and employee relations matters; providing guidance, coaching and upskilling to managers to build people management capability, whilst positively influencing workplace behaviours. Through professional judgement, credibility, and strong stakeholder relationships, the role helps drive a high-performance, values-led culture across the site.

Role Qualifications and Skills:

• CIPD Level 5 Qualified or above preferred
• Passionate about delivering a proactive, operationally focused and value-add HR service to the business
• Must be discreet, diplomatic and treat information within the department as highly confidential
• Meticulous attention to detail essential, including proofing and editing
• Sound understanding of integrity and compliance
• Communicates well in written and oral form with multi-nationals on all levels
• Ability to multitask and work under own initiative to deliver to deadlines
• Resilience when faced with ambiguity and changing priorities whilst maintaining a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude
• Ability to manage own workload effectively
• Relationship builder with influencing skills
• Strong IT skills in HRIS and Office packages (particularly Word, SharePoint, Excel)

Benefits:

• Company Pension - Legal and General
• Life Assurance
• 31 days annual leave per year (after probation)
• Subsidised canteen serving multiple hot food options for breakfast and lunch
• Employee Discount Platform - All Kepak employees are entitled to access to the WrkIt platform, which offers significant discounts and cashback with hundreds of brands
• Refer a Friend Scheme - Earn up to £500 for successfully referring a friend or family member to Kepak Group
• Bike to Work Scheme - You can buy a bike and safety equipment through a salary sacrifice scheme which reduces your taxable income – meaning you pay less tax!
• Long Service Awards - We recognise, acknowledge and award the dedication and valuable contribution of long serving employees
• GroceryAid Employee Assistance Program - help with a wide range of topics including mental health and wellbeing support, family and relationship advice, debt management, back to work support, and counselling for all Kepak colleagues and their families.