HR Manager – Tunstead, Commercial and SC&L Central

Overview

In this HR Manager role, you will lead the people agenda for the Tunstead Cement Plant and related operations, partnering with senior leaders to drive performance and engagement. You’ll guide employee relations, organisational change, and workforce planning in a fast-paced, unionised environment. You’ll influence decision-making, promote best practices, and help shape an inclusive, high-performing culture across the business. This is a chance to impact outcomes at scale within a national HR team and across manufacturing operations.

Pay / Benefits

• Bonus scheme
• Enhanced holiday entitlement
• Contributory pension scheme
• Access to reward website with discounts
• Employee Assistance helpline
• Employee communities

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to provide expert HR guidance on complex people matters
• Deliver high-quality employee relations and manage disciplinary, grievance, absence and capability issues
• Lead industrial relations activities with Trade Union representatives and support annual pay negotiations
• Coordinate organisational change initiatives including restructures and redundancies with compliant consultation
• Coach leaders to build management capability and support a high-performance culture
• Support workforce and succession planning and talent development activities
• Oversee recruitment, onboarding, early careers and educational engagement initiatives
• Identify learning and development priorities and support career progression
• Utilise HR data to identify trends and drive continuous improvement
• Collaborate with the wider Cement and Packed HR team to standardise practices and support cross-business initiatives

Key requirements

• Significant generalist HR experience in manufacturing/industrial environments
• Experience managing complex employee relations cases and organisational change
• Experience in a unionised environment with Trade Union engagement
• Strong knowledge of UK employment legislation and practical application
• Experience coaching and influencing leaders across multiple levels
• Bachelor in Business and CIPD Level 5 qualification, or working towards it
• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to balance people priorities with business objectives
• Ability to make difficult decisions and manage conflicting priorities under pressure
• Strong analytical skills to translate HR data into actionable insights

• strong interpersonal skills
• stakeholder management
• influencing and coaching
• UK employment law knowledge
• employee relations management
• change management

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