Are you an experienced HR leader who prides yourself on your ability to effectively drive people strategy across several locations? Ready for a new challenge? Do you want to make a difference?

Due to internal progression, we’re looking for a full-time, permanent, HR Business Partner to join us on a national basis to support our Iceland contract. The Business Partner will provide both strategic and operational HR support, to our Customer, Operations Director and General Managers with HR responsibility for a contract of over 2500 colleagues across sites based primarily at Enfield, Livingston, Swindon (x2) and Warrington. You will also be working alongside a great HR team, with responsibility for supporting the design and delivery of a consistent framework for people-related activity within the Iceland Contract and the wider business.

We are flexible with regard to base location although regular travel is expected to all sites.  You will be working Monday to Friday; however, flexibility is required, this is logistics after all!

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £70,000.00 per annum, bonus, plus car or car allowance. In addition, we offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays. Benefits include private healthcare, a dental plan, a workplace pension and an employee assistance programme. Plus, many other perks. In addition, our GXO University provides the opportunity to learn new skills and gain qualifications at a pace that you’re comfortable with.

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Work closely with Internal and external stake holders to integrate HR practices, drive the engagement agenda, and champion people-related change and organisational design activities
• Act as a confidant, influencer, and enabler, for the Operations Director and General Managers, allowing them to make calculated, evidenced and commercially focused people-related decisions
• Ensure that our site HR teams are providing an effective and efficient consultancy and advisory service to our operational teams, acting as a key mentor, coach, and go-to escalation point
• Facilitate, lead, and drive programmes across the colleague lifecycle including talent development and succession planning, colleague engagement and recognition, and recruitment and retention.

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• A background in leading a HR team and overseeing HR activity across multiple locations within large logistics, distribution, or supply chain operations
• Experience of working and negotiating with Trade Unions
• Be an experienced HR Partner particularly around Employee Relations and Culture change programme
• The ability to effectively communicate with and influence a variety of internal and external stakeholders at all levels and via a variety of mediums
• A genuine belief in, and commitment to, delivering a great colleague experience across all people related activity including colleague involvement, wellbeing, D,I & B and Communications

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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