Job Description
HR Business Partner
Location: Mayfair, London
Working hours: Full-time
Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum
Based in central London and operating throughout the UK and internationally, Food Alert is a leading food safety and health & safety consultancy. Our clients span many sectors including retail, leisure, and education, but hospitality is where our expertise and passion lie. We work with some of the UK’s most innovative, exciting and high-profile restaurants, hotels and pub groups such as Brewdog, The Ivy Collection, Dishoom, Citizen M, and Harbour Hotels.
We are also part of The Citation Group whose portfolio of companies proudly deliver compliance support services to more than 50,000 clients. Our mission is to be the company that colleagues and clients want to work for and with.
We have exciting plans for development and growth in 2022 and beyond. The Citation Group has recently acquired two additional businesses to join Food Alert creating a suite of services focused on the food sector and we are looking for an HRBP to support the team across all three entities (headcount circa 85). The HRBP will work closely with the Senior Leadership Team in implementing a range of people strategies designed to ensure we have a brilliant culture, strong leadership with an engaged and highly performing team. This is also a hands-on role with responsibility for ensuring the day-to-day HR needs of the team are met. The post-holder will report to the MD of Food Compliance and will also have a dotted line to the Divisional Head of HR, benefiting from being part of a dynamic and collaborative wider HR team within the Group.
Our team are experts in their fields and dynamic, fast-paced, commercial and customer-focused and we are looking for the same qualities in our HRBP – it would also be great if they #lovehospitality!
It’s a really exciting time to join our business and come and grow with us.
The role
Food Alert’s HR Business Partner provides support to colleagues, managers, and the Senior Leadership Team, working collaboratively with the Citation Group HR team. You are responsible for implementing a range of initiatives in order to attract, engage, retain and develop great people.
• Work closely with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to drive the People Plan, identify and deliver key HR initiatives
• Generalist HR/ER: Provide HR support for ER issues across the three businesses including: performance management, grievances, disciplinaries, redundancy, long term sick, disputes, TUPE, colleague wellbeing including maternity/paternity)
• Creating a high-performance culture: Ensure that the performance review cycles are fit for purpose and coach and develop managers to be the best they can be, and to ensure that their people are the best they can be.
• Reporting and Stats: Prepare people reports for the SLT on a monthly basis and attend SLT meetings as HR representative and secretariat
• Rewards & remuneration: develop our benefits, prepare all communications and contract variations, and liaise with the Group payroll team.
• Support with embedding new acquisitions into the Citation Group.
• All HR admin associated with the team including ensuring that employee records are accurately maintained.
• Compliance/business protection – you know the importance of this and will make it integral to the way we work.
• Internal Comms – owning the internal comms within Food Alert and actively contributing to the wider Group internal comms – it’s the voice of our culture, a glue that helps bind us and has never been more important
• L&D – we like to keep it relevant, quick and easy to access, be prepared to get involved in supporting the delivery of existing programmes and help to create new material
The person
• CIPD level 7 or equivalent experience
• Experience of dealing with a wide range of ER issues and comfort in dealing with issues from basics to complex issues
• Experience or exposure to large change projects (e.g. restructures, business integrations, TUPE transfers
• Experience of writing and delivering training
• Able to work in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment. Always ready to adapt and get stuck in
• Agile with a growth mindset, you will really care about our business. You understand that you are a role model for and a custodian of our culture and will always put your best self forward.
• You will have a wide range of influencing and communication skills. With high emotional intelligence and sound commercial acumen, people will want to come to you, not just because of your expertise, but because you are a great person to work with.
• You will have strong coaching and problem-solving skills, able to work together with our managers to help find the best solutions
• Initiative and ability to come up with ideas on how to improve our processes to create a better experience for colleagues.
Coming to work should never be a chore so we, and you, create an environment where you can be at your best. You will be surrounded by great people who care about what we do and have a true sense of purpose.
If you are still reading this, it says our culture is for you. Apply now. Come join us.