HR Generalist

At Britvic, we make, market and sell great-tasting soft drinks, offering refreshments to billions of consumers worldwide. We're constantly refreshing and reimagining our business, ensuring it's innovative and evolving while staying true to our vision – to be the most dynamic soft drinks company, creating a better tomorrow. We've been home to iconic brands for over 100 years, and our relevance is anchored in an authentic heritage. Delivering our vision is down to the passion of our people, and we create conditions for everyone to thrive and grow. From our international supply chain and network of partners, we export to over 100 countries, offering opportunities for our people and businesses to grow.

Job Overview

This role will be part of the people team, providing professional and pragmatic HR support and advice to line managers and leaders. You'll ensure consistency, fairness, and compliance with employment laws across Ireland and Northern Ireland. You'll handle sensitive, confidential, and challenging employment matters, promoting positive wellbeing and resilience. Additionally, you'll support various HR and reward processes, including facilitating the company vehicle policy requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Absence Management: Monitor absence, support managers with action plans, coach on occupational health referrals, drive unsatisfactory attendance management, and facilitate Income Protection Scheme claims.
• Case Management: Provide employee relations advice to managers on disciplinary, grievance, and capability matters, supporting investigations, hearings, appeals, and welfare meetings.
• Relationship Building: Develop effective relationships with managers and employees, instilling trust and confidence. Coach managers through procedures and assist in building their capability.
• Administration: Ensure all case management administration is captured, in accordance with GDPR, policies, and legislation, supporting and coaching managers.
• Performance Monitoring and Reporting: Collaborate with the ER Team to monitor case data, make recommendations for continuous improvement, build manager capability, and drive performance.
• Policy Implementation: Take a proactive approach to implementing and ensuring compliance with people-related policies, building knowledge across management teams, including the company vehicle policy.
• Continuous Improvement: Assess processes and identify opportunities for improvement, implementing cost-saving initiatives and efficiencies.
• Reward Management: Work closely with the reward team on implementing and improving the company vehicle policy for Ireland, managing contract suppliers and ensuring KPIs and SLAs are aligned.
• Training and Development: Determine, develop, and deliver training interventions to build manager capability in people management activities.
• Support Business Partnering: Work closely with the HRBP to support cyclical HR processes and life-cycle events that drive employee engagement, wellbeing, and compliance.

Requirements

• Excellent administration, attention to detail, and record-keeping abilities.
• Experience in dealing with disputes, absence management, disciplinaries, grievances, and workplace investigations.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Understanding of employment legislation (ROI and NI).
• Understanding of industrial relations and employee relations framework.
• Understanding of HR reward practices.
• Strong letter writing ability and proficiency in software packages.

Qualifications

• Experience working in an HR function of at least 2-5 years.
• Degree or equivalent in HR-related discipline necessary.