Senior People Experience Partner

As a Senior People Experience Partner, you will play a key role in enabling a positive workplace culture by providing leaders with guidance and support on all areas of the employee lifecycle, including Performance, Disciplinary, Grievance, Absence, Wellbeing, and Engagement. By truly partnering with our leaders, this role will deliver and embed our One HR Plan by empowering our managers to do the best thing for their teams.

Role can be based in Burton or Bury St Edmunds 

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.  

We’re all about rewarding our team’s hard work, that’s why…

You’ll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career. 
• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
• Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels. – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
• Refer a friend – who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could earn £1,500 for referring them!
• Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens.
• Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…

As Senior People Experience Partner, you will…

• Lead a team of People Experience Partners to support and build manager capability and confidence when dealing with significant employee issues.
• Partner with our business leaders to provide a balance of strong professional HR advice aligned to UK employment law and commerciality in line with the business needs and our One HR Plan.
• Support and own high-level, complex ER cases with the assistance of our Investigation team – such as TUPE, Tribunals, and high-risk cases.
• Utilise the insight gathered by the People Experience Partners to work with the Senior People Change Partners to develop strategies to address persistent or reoccurring themes in our ER cases or Line Management capability.
• Influence and partner at an Exec level to allow for the right outcome for employees, leaders, and Greene King in all elements of the employee lifecycle.

What you’ll bring…

• MHFA Trained / willingness to be trained
• Understanding of GDPR
• CIPD Level 5 equivalent or working towards
• High level of knowledge of employment law, policy & best practice
• Line management experience preferred