Senior HR Manager, Science & Innovation

Tate and Lyle is a successful organisation with a clear purpose, ambition, strategy, and strong expert talent, solely focused on achieving its ambition as a world class ingredients solutions provider. We have expanded our plant-based footprint beyond corn into tapioca, stevia leaf, chickpea protein and soluble fibre to explore wider platforms for achieving our ambition. Achieving this ambition will require development of new capabilities, reallocation of resources and investment to become a leaner, more agile company, leveraging latest technology, process insight and ways of working.

Partnering with President, Science & Innovation to develop people plans to support the strategic agenda whilst working across HR CoEs and global functions to drive delivery against the plans. Contributing as part of the HR Leadership team to the ongoing evolution of the function, the employee value proposition and broader strategic HR initiatives. This role will have a particular focus on Talent Management, Performance Enablement, and People Analytics. This role combines classic HRBP partnering with strong technical capability across performance frameworks, skills taxonomies, succession enablement, and data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities include:

• Developing and deploying scalable solutions, and coaching leaders to build a high-performance, future-ready organisation.
• Partnering with relevant stakeholders to understand their business unit, how it operates, how it adds value, existing challenges, agenda etc.
• Acting as advisor and coach to key stakeholders to enable effective human performance across the function.
• Working with the leadership team to create and facilitate the execution of a shared people agenda that will enable performance.
• Working with the broader HR teams to align on delivery of the people plans, ensuring alignment across regions as well as on onward functional strategy.
• Leading HR projects and initiatives aimed at enhancing employee engagement, retention, and performance.
• Acting as a trusted adviser to senior leaders on workforce strategy, organisation design, and change.
• Driving manager capability and leadership effectiveness through targeted interventions and coaching.
• Analysing workforce trends, identifying talent gaps, and developing succession plan interventions.
• Using HRIS and talent platforms to derive actionable insights; utilising dashboards to drive improvement in performance, mobility, bench strength, and attrition risk.
• Translating capability gaps into skills-based learning paths, academies, and targeted development experiences for the function.
• Leveraging systems and data to generate insight that drives continuous improvement in HR functioning.
• Operating as the face to HR for business units, driving delivery of core HR processes that serve to unlock organisational insight and performance.
• Contributing to the HR function to drive flow in ways of working through bringing the voice of the customer to all that the function delivers.
• Leading with integrity, consideration and challenge – having the courage and confidence to challenge the business and its leaders.
• Delivery against defined people plan metrics (engagement, retention, hiring etc).
• Functional business performance.
• Employee Experience satisfaction.
• Employee retention and engagement.
• Organisational diversity.
• Succession coverage.
• Experience in organisations going through transformation.
• Track record of driving commercially impactful people plans.
• Experience in a global, matrixed environment.
• Capacity to influence complex stakeholders across multiple dimensions.
• Strong planning, critical thinking and problem-solving skills to meet goals within constraints of time and budget.
• Bias for action, strong sense of immediacy, and drive to achieve objectives.
• Learning mindset and ability to identify/apply learning to other situations.
• Execution focus – track record of driving continuous improvement and effectiveness in HR provision.
• Demonstrable expertise in talent management, performance enablement, and succession planning.
• Strong fluency with HR tech/analytics; able to build dashboards and tell a compelling story with data.
• Proven success deploying performance frameworks.
• Experience in organisation design and change management.
• Solid understanding of reward-performance linkages and calibration practices.

Our purpose, Improving Lives for Generations, inspires everything we do. Whether it’s by making food and drink healthier and tastier; continuously improving how we work; promoting a safe working environment; or making a difference to our local communities, we believe we can successfully grow our business and have a positive impact on society. Our work is driven by consumer health needs and trends, governments desire to build and support healthy communities, and the need for affordable food and nutrition in many parts of the world. We deliver ingredients and solutions to meet all these needs.