Engagement Specialist (Maternity)

Location: Aintree

Salary: Up to £50,000

Employment Type: Maternity Cover, On-site

We are working with a globally renowned manufacturing business currently moving through a period of significant change and transformation. This brand is a household name, and together we are looking for a Site Experience Lead to help their people navigate a changing site, culture, and workforce.

What will this role achieve?

This is a vital site role reporting into the HR Business Partner, leading the development and deployment of their colleague programmes across the four pillars of Engagement, Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, and the roll-out and embedding of their Employee Value Proposition and UK&I regional strategy. You will use your knowledge and experience of working within manufacturing environments and understanding a Supply Chain customer base to bring relevant and well-received initiatives and communications that positively impact the experience of their employees and drive performance and engagement.

You will work closely with a wide range of site partners, supporting the Leadership team, whilst building trusted and valued relationships with first-line managers, employee representatives, corporate colleagues, and external visitors. You will also ensure alignment with other areas of the HR function such as Learning & Development (L&D), Reward, Recruitment, and Occupational Health & Wellbeing (OHW), working to enhance the employee experience across the full employee lifecycle.

This is a full-time, site-based role at their manufacturing site.

Your key deliverables will be:

• To work with the Site HR Business Partner and support further development of the site Engagement strategy and roadmap.
• Taking full ownership and accountability for the delivery of the Engagement and Experience agenda at site.
• To drive and champion the annual site engagement survey, identifying trends and working with stakeholders on action planning and continuous improvement.
• Managing the maintenance of data and analytics to identify focus areas and areas for improvement, measuring and assessing success and impact on an ongoing basis.
• To work with the Site Leadership team in a champion capacity to continuously support their cultural change journey.
• Role modelling the winning traits and behaviours (WTB's) and bringing fresh thinking to site to support all colleagues in developing and exhibiting the correct behaviours.
• To maintain a network of contacts within the local community and beyond, driving social connections and CSR opportunities locally.
• Establishing rapport with key partners, ambassadors, and site colleagues to ensure that their approach is built from within and is optimally embedded into the site.
• Working closely with L&D and other partners i.e., OHW, Recruitment, and Comms, to build a fantastic colleague experience into the employee lifecycle.
• To drive the diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda at site, leading on action planning to create a sense of belonging and a culture of inclusion.
• Manage site communications to ensure the most appropriate channels are being utilised, ensuring clear, consistent messaging is shared at vital points in time.
• Actively listen and act as a point of conscience for the site leadership team to drive progress and continuous improvement.

Bring your experience

Essential:

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to listen, engage, influence, and empower to actively drive forward the engagement agenda through others.
• Well-developed planning, prioritisation, organisational, and presentation skills.
• Proven experience of working in an HR environment and associated understanding of interconnections/drivers of Employee Engagement/Employee Life Cycle.
• Passion and drive to challenge the norm to help create a better work environment for all colleagues.
• Ability to build respected, trusted, and supportive relationships with key partners.
• A personal desire to continuously learn and develop to ensure new practices and thinking are understood and accepted.

Desirable:

• CIPD Level 5 or equivalent.
• Specific Employee Engagement Qualification.

Don't meet every single requirement? At Realise, we are dedicated to helping our clients build diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplaces, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we would encourage you to apply anyway! You might be just the candidate we're looking for!

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