About [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Limited

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Ltd is one of the UK’s leading ambient cake manufacturers of retailer own label, licensed and branded cakes, supplying recognisable retailers across the UK and European market. We are passionate about our products and aim to put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We are currently looking for a HR Advisor to join our team in Blackburn.

Who are we looking for?

The successful candidate will have experience at HR Advisor level as well as experience of the management of Employee Relations caseload. You will have a good understanding of employment legislation and will be experienced in end-to-end recruitment processes. A CIPD qualification level 5 or equivalent (or working towards) is preferred.

The role of a HR Advisor at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Limited

The purpose of the role is to provide a customer focused, comprehensive and professional HR service to employees and managers by managing and developing processes, ensuring adherence to policies, procedures and legal requirements.

• Provide expert and professional advice on all Human Resources queries/issues to Managers.
• Supporting Managers in managing the recruitment and selection of new employees, ensuring that high quality people are recruited to all vacancies.
• Liaise regularly with management teams to achieve a good understanding of their issues and ensure timely interventions where applicable.
• Liaise with the Occupational Health Provider, as necessary.
• Advise and support Managers on restructuring issues, including support with redundancy, redeployment and early retirement cases, in accordance with the policy and employment legislation.
• Provide advice, guidance and training to all Managers on the application of HR policies, practice and employment law.
• Maintain accurate staff records and provide information, as required within the limits of GDPR.
• Ensure that the HR department is ‘audit ready’ at all times to support ethical, technical and site audits.
• Undertake project work and policy development work as assigned by the HR Manager.
• Providing advice and guidance to managers and staff on all employment matters, ensuring that innovative solutions are implemented to support the needs of our customers e.g. management of sickness absence, recruitment, Performance, in accordance with the policies and procedures.
• Use KPI data to identify trends and patterns in forming business decision making and act upon relevant HR KPI information in a timely manner itemising trends and in a format that is readily available for managers to review e.g. sickness absence, recruitment, equality & diversity and turnover data.

Who are [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Limited?

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Limited are one of the UK’s leading ambient cake and chilled dessert manufacturers of retailer own label, licensed and branded cakes, supplying recognisable major retailers across the UK and European market. Our team of experts develop and manufacture a wide range of high-quality ambient cake products across several different categories including celebration cakes, mini rolls, mince pies, fruit pies and a wide range of chilled desserts including cheesecake, crumbles and sponge cakes. These include mince pies, celebration cakes, slab cakes, cupcakes and many more! We are passionate about our products and aim to put the customer at the heart of everything we do. With recent investment and acquisitions taking us to nearly 1,400 direct employees, this is an exciting time to join [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Limited! We are continually looking to grow, but we can only do that with exceptional talent across all levels and disciplines of the business. That is where you come into it! On top of making some delicious cakes and desserts, we do a lot of fun stuff too! Whether that be Christmas fun days, pancake-flipping competitions, Red Nose Day events or odd-sock days, you’ll be coming to work smiling.

What benefits do we offer?

• Financial: Pension, 4x Life Assurance/Death in Service Benefit, Access to ‘Company Shop’ – a discounted re-distributor of surplus food and household products.
• Health & Wellbeing: 25 days holiday (plus statutory holidays), 24/7 Access to a GP, 24/7 Bereavement Service.
• Personal & Professional Development: Dedicated in-house Learning & Development/Training team, Online training platform with access to 100+ training courses.
• A few other bits: Quarterly and Yearly [Employer hidden] Star Awards, Free on-site parking, Hybrid working.

Recruitment Agencies

All our recruitment is managed centrally via the internal recruitment team. We operate a recruitment PSL when we require assistance, and we aren't adding to this at present. Any agency assistance will be instructed accordingly and therefore any CVs sent to any [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Limited employee will be treated as a gift and won't be liable for a fee. Please don't speculatively contact us about this vacancy or any other vacancy.