Are you an experienced HR professional who enjoys building positive workplace cultures and supporting operational teams? Can you build trusted relationships with managers, trade unions and employees to deliver positive business outcomes? Do you enjoy coaching managers and creating engagement across multiple sites?
Join GXO as an HR Manager supporting the Costa contract across our southern region. Working closely with operational leaders, trade unions and HR colleagues, you'll help deliver people initiatives, support employee relations matters and drive engagement across the region. This is a varied role where you'll coach managers, build strong stakeholder relationships and contribute to a positive and consistent employee experience. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and making a difference through people, we'd love to hear from you.
This is a permanent position working 3 or 4 days per week, between Monday and Friday. Based primarily at Greenford, you'll also provide support to our Avonmouth and Willand sites. Flexibility will be required to accommodate travel and ensure visibility and support across all locations.
Pay, benefits and more:
We’re offering a full-time equivalent salary of £44,000 - £50,000 per annum, depending on experience, plus 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). For 3 or 4 days per week, salary and holiday entitlement will be paid on a pro-rata basis.
Your benefits package includes a company car or car allowance of £450 per calendar month, a company sponsored pension scheme, private medical & dental insurance, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You’ll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more!
What you’ll do on a typical day:
- Partner with site operational leaders to deliver the people plan across Greenford, Willand (Devon) and Avonmouth (Bristol), ensuring HR initiative support business objectives
- Coach and develop managers, helping to build capability in people management, performance management, succession planning and overall employee experience
- Lead and manage employee relations cases, providing expert advice on disciplinary, grievance absence management and dispute resolution matters
- Build strong relationships with Trade Unions and key stakeholders, supporting consultation processes
- Analyse HR metrics and trends to identify opportunities to improve engagement, retention, diversity and performance
What you need to succeed at GXO:
- CIPD Level 5 qualified (or working towards level 5) with proven experience operating at HR advisor level or above
- Strong employee relations experience, including disciplinary, grievance absence management, dispute resolution and trade union engagement
- Excellent stakeholder management and coaching skills with the ability to influence and support managers at all levels of the business
- A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel regularly across multiple sites, with the flexibility to support a 24/7 operational environment
We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.
GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.
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