HR Business Partner - Bury (9m FTC)

Job Overview

As our HR Business Partner, no two days will be exactly alike, but you can expect a dynamic blend of strategic oversight and hands‑on engagement. You\’ll be the trusted advisor to our Bury team, reporting directly to the Head of HR for Physical Distribution, and playing a crucial role in the future development of L\’Oréal UKI Physical Distribution. Your mornings might involve building strong relationships with our internal managers and employees, ensuring legal security and compliance with HR processes, and acting as a business strategic partner by outlining HR challenges and projects. You\’ll take the lead in recruiting a strong and diverse pipeline of junior talent, co‑designing and delivering operations‑specific training plans to empower our workforce. Throughout the day, you\’ll be actively involved in ensuring a fair and transparent reward policy, managing individual and collective payroll revisions, and tracking headcount and payroll costs for your remit. Working closely with the HR Shared Service team, you\’ll ensure our organisational charts and employee data are always up‑to‑date. As a key member of the site Mancom team, you\’ll lead, drive, and inspire the Bury team, aligning strategy within operational goals, celebrating successes, and fostering continuous feedback. You\’ll be accountable for our HR KPIs, constantly strengthening L\’Oréal\’s image, promoting diversity, and upholding our Group\’s values and code of ethics. Anticipating and accompanying operational requirements and changes will be second nature to you, as you help to drive organisational excellence.

Qualifications

• You are a results‑driven HR professional with a passion for people and an innate ability to navigate complexity.
• You possess a solution‑oriented mindset, thrive on working accurately at pace, and comfortably handle ambiguity. Ideally, you bring previous HR experience in an operational setting, with a strong understanding of recruitment, selection, change management, and organisational design. Experience in a unionised or FMCG environment is desirable, but not essential.
• You have strong planning and organisational skills, allowing you to re‑prioritise and adapt to changing deadlines with ease.
• Your ability to engage and positively influence both internal and external stakeholders, along with managing upwards, is key.
• You\’re a natural leader who can inspire, motivate, coach, and develop people, fostering a culture of growth.
• You\’re proficient with MS Office and ideally CIPD qualified or hold an equivalent qualification.
• Beyond your skills, you show Ambition, always thinking big, proactive, and committed to exceptional performance.
• Your Judgement allows you to balance operational and strategic thinking, effectively managing confrontation and cutting through ambiguity.
• You demonstrate Resilience, maintaining a positive outlook and bouncing back from challenges, always showing purpose and ownership. Empathy is at your core, enabling you to build genuine and trustful relationships, supporting others, and respecting diverse perspectives.
• Finally, your Learning Agility means you\’re self‑motivated, curious, and open to experimenting and learning from every experience, constantly stepping out of your comfort zone.

L\’Oréal is present in 150 markets on five continents. For more than a century, L\’Oréal has devoted itself solely to \’Create beauty that moves the world\’; it is now the industry world leader with €29 billion consolidated sales. Together, we solve complex challenges at scale, while making sure we stay committed to making the world a more inclusive and a better place for everyone & our planet. Experience the excitement of agility to shape the future of beauty; where diversity and purpose come together to create meaningful impact.

About the Division

Our Corporate Division supports the 4000+ strong workforce in the UK & Ireland. It\’s a fast‑paced and dynamic environment when you\’ll have visibility over our 4 Divisions and play an integral role in moving our business forward. Our founder Eugène Schueller once said that \”a company is not walls and machines, it\’s people, people, people\”. Joining our corporate teams means joining the world leader in beauty, at the cutting edge of innovation. But above all, it means becoming part of a team of talented and inspiring people.

Benefits

Our industry‑leading award‑winning benefits package shows how much we value our people. We know they\’re at the heart of L\’Oréal\’s success, so we offer a fair and competitive package to help you thrive. Enjoy perks like money‑saving offers, free mortgage advice, share options and an enhanced pension plan. Love our brands? You\’ll get up to 60% off iconic names like YSL, CeraVe, Armani, Kiehl\’s and Garnier! Because health matters, we offer private medical and dental insurance, discounted gym memberships, and onsite mental health support. We also provide enhanced family leave for all and up to 4 weeks of paid fertility leave, so you can prioritise what matters most. Learning is in our DNA at L\’Oréal. We\’ll help you master your role, build skills, and access top‑notch leadership programs and monthly expert talks. And there\’s lots more too!