Our Adnams Distribution Centre is located just outside of Southwold in Reydon and is housed in an amazing sustainable building designed to minimise our impact on the environment. Conveniently situated just off the A12 with lots of free parking and only a short distance to the coast it's a great place to work. Did we mention it's full of lovely beer!
Human Resources Advisor - Initially on a 6 month contract, 3 days a week.
What do you need to know about Adnams and our Team?
We make amazing award-winning beers and spirits from our home in Southwold, we operate some stunning pubs and hotels, and we have some great shops across the region. We understand the value of every customer and work hard to deliver amazing service in a time of exciting innovation and digital transformation.
We do all of this while caring passionately about the environment, our local communities and our wider social responsibilities.
At Adnams we really care about diversity and are proud of our culture where everyone is respected, valued and treated with kindness.
As an HR Team we like to challenge the norm and are always looking for new and better ways of delivering more for our business and our people.
The Role
This is a part time position working 3 days a week on an initial 6 month contract, it is possible this may be extended or become permanent for the right person.
This is an exciting time to be joining the team as a part time HR Advisor where your purpose will be to attract, retain, support and engage our teams by doing things the right way!
You will be the first point of contact in supporting our teams and managers with a range of HR topics such as employee engagement, employee relations, coaching and managing performance.
This position also provides the opportunity to work on a broad range of HR projects and activities.
What we are looking for?
To be successful you will be confident, highly motivated and curious with proven previous generalist HR experience in a fast paced environment. You will know that our success is our people and you will have excellent communication and influencing skills, be a confident decision maker and understand how to build strong relationships.
Key areas will include:
· Providing advice and guidance to employees on a full range of HR processes and topics
· Manage employee relations casework such as absence management, disciplinaries, grievances and TUPE, always with sensitivity and fairness.
· Assisting managers during fact finding investigations, formal disciplinary and performance management matters
· Experience with restructures and consultation processes
· Supporting with recruitment, selection, onboarding and retention.
· Upskilling managers to be effective team managers
· Supporting and maintaining HR information databases and document workflows
· Manage leaver and exit processes
· Promoting, coordinating and occasionally delivering a wide range of learning and development activity.
· Data reporting and analysis
Location and working pattern
We are based in Southwold with sites across East Anglia. We promote hybrid working where possible, with employees able to mix working from home, within one of our Southwold offices or from other Adnams sites. This particular role, given its part time nature (3 days a week), would require the majority of the time to be on site in either Southwold or Reydon.
What's in it for you?
Hopefully, a sense of pride that you are working for a business that cares about the important stuff and a lot of fun working with an amazing bunch of people. This is a rewarding role offering the successful candidate exposure across a wide range of varied of HR activities to develop their career.
Enthusiastic and hard-working people who join Adnams tend to stay around so we must get quite a lot of things right. We really admire innovation and are not afraid to try something new, so you get to put new ideas into practice to deliver even better results for everyone.
We offer an excellent package including a competitive salary, training and development opportunities, pension scheme and life assurance, Wellbeing Programmes and fabulous employee discounts!