People Partner (maternity cover)

People Partner

Salary: Competitive salary

Benefits: Company share save scheme, Competitive matched pension contributions, Life insurance up to 4x salary

Location: Pizza and Bread Aston, Nantwich, CW5 8DL / Pizza and Bread Crewe, Crewe, CW1 6UA, including Crewe DC

Ways of Working: Site Based

Hours of work: Monday - Friday / 08:30-17:00

Contract Type: Fixed Term - Approx. 12 Months (Maternity Cover)

This role will provide support across multiple sites within the Crewe and Nantwich area, including the Crewe site, Crewe DC, and Aston site. The contractual base will be Aston, with responsibilities shared relatively equally across all locations.

*The successful candidate will ideally start in August to allow for a full handover period.*

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Our site in Nantwich, Aston, is a vibrant facility producing chilled speciality breads, including sliced baguettes, flatbreads, and dough balls. The site employs around 270 people and delivers high-quality products to a dedicated customer base.

Our site in Crewe produces chilled speciality breads, including sliced baguettes, hand-crafted flatbreads, and dough balls. The site employs over 280 people in the factory operating at a high standard of quality and volume.

What you'll be doing

In this busy and exciting role, you will work in partnership with senior leaders and line managers to deliver the People Plan, providing pragmatic HR support, driving engagement, strengthening leadership capability and ensuring effective people processes that support business performance.

Role Accountabilities

• Partner with leaders to diagnose people challenges, recommend solutions and support delivery of agreed actions

• Provide expert guidance on employee relations, attendance management and complex people matters

• Support ethical compliance activity including SEDEX audits, modern slavery requirements and internal audit readiness

• Produce and analyse people data and reports to support leadership decision making

• Work collaboratively with Centres of Expertise across HR operations, payroll, reward, talent acquisition and learning

• Drive engagement initiatives, employee voice activity and delivery of the annual engagement survey action plans

• Build effective relationships with unions, employee forums, wellbeing champions and temporary labour providers

• Support reward processes including pay reviews and accurate HR system implementation

• Strengthen workforce planning and talent pipelines for both hourly paid and salaried roles

• Coach and develop managers to build capability, support organisational change and deliver performance and succession processes

What we're looking for

• Proven ability to build relationships, influence and challenge stakeholders effectively

• Strong understanding of business priorities and how HR drives performance outcomes

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to adapt approach to different audiences

• Proactive, pragmatic and solutions-focused mindset

• Ability to work to tight timescales within a fast-paced environment

• Strong analytical capability with experience extracting and presenting people data

• Experience delivering HR or people-focused projects through to completion

• Strong organisational skills with excellent prioritisation and time management

• Sound judgement with the ability to assess risk and escalate appropriately

• High integrity with a passion for inclusion and championing a positive culture

We're proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits

• Holidays

• Competitive matched pension contributions

• Life insurance up to 4x salary

• Company share save scheme

• Greencore Qualifications

• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform

• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.

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