HR Lead at McCain Foods

About the role.

• In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.
• We have ambitious growth business plans at McCain, but we can’t achieve those without our people. Our HR team play a huge part in driving our winning culture and it’s the role of our HR Lead at Hull to get under the skin of the people behind the potatoes.
• As HR Lead it's your job to work alongside your our people leaders across our Hull Manufacturing Plant to make McCain a great place to work. This covers many elements of HR including Employee Relations, Recruitment, and day-today HR Employee Lifecycle processes and compliance.
• Our ideal candidate will already be living and breathing a HR generalist role so you’ll already have a good idea of what this role will entail.

Leadership Principles.

• Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organisation. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.
• We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.
• We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.
• We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.
• We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.

Accountabilities.

• Partner with leaders and employees to navigate people matters — from employee relations and investigations to managing appeals, misconduct, and disciplinary actions, including suspension or termination when required.
• Drive local recruitment with energy and ownership by managing job requisitions in SuccessFactors, hosting job events and fairs, proactively sourcing talent, and nurturing strong local talent pools — with a spotlight on early careers.
• Own employee movement and contract management, ensuring seamless updates to personal information and smooth transitions for all employees.
• Spot trends and share meaningful insights with stakeholders to elevate the impact and efficiency of HR service delivery.
• Champion HR compliance, including right-to-work checks, GDPR data practices, and internal audit requirements.
• Keep the employee experience at the heart of everything, continually identifying and implementing improvements that make our HR processes smoother, smarter, and more human.

Qualifications:

You’ll be a HR generalist ideally with experience in a manufacturing environment (FMCG would be advantageous!) You will also have…

• A professional HR qualification
• Experience of working within a FMCG Manufacturing plant
• Solid ER experience, with previous knowledge of managing conduct, absence etc..
• Strong stakeholder management
• Experience of working at pace in a high pressured, and demanding environment
• Strong recruitment experience. Has experience of talent attraction as well as experience of recruiting at pace and volume
• Good administrational skills with a knowledge of Microsoft Office particularly Excel
• The ability to work well on your own, and self-motivated. A self-start and able to work independently