Nomad Foods, Europe’s largest frozen food company (c€3bn NSV) which includes iconic brands such as Birds Eye, Findus, Iglo, Goodfellas, Aunt Bessie’s, Frikom and Ledo.

Every day millions of households across Europe eat the food we make, this simple fact carries a great responsibility and we have a part to play in solving some of the challenges the world is facing and our purpose of “serving the world with better food” sits at the heart of what we do every day.

This role supports the global HR agenda of the Group Functions and offers the opportunity to get involved in a variety of areas within HR and to assist with the business partnering relationships across all Group Central Functions

The role reports directly to the Senior HRBP for Group Functions (Commercial) and will have exposure to and support the HR Director Central Functions with HR for HR activity.

The successful candidate will be passionate about delivering to the highest standards and have an ambition to develop a long-term career in HR.

HR Support

• Provide operational and administrative support to HRBP’s across all employee life cycle HR processes including recruitment, offers, recognition scheme, pay review, performance reviews, exit interviews
• Support with preparation of presentations and other materials for meetings including monthly cascades to provide consistency across all Group Functions
• Provide the HR Centre (who manage transactional activities manage Payroll and Benefits Administration for employees based in the UK/Ireland) with timely information from HRBPs. Providing them with support as and when needed.
• Support with administration of international transfers
• First point of contact for HR queries

Deliver HR Excellence

• Be responsible for maintaining and managing data integrity which is critical to our annual cycle activities and resolving all data issues through close collaboration with the HR Centre
• HR Data reporting and analysis as required to satisfy routine organisation requirements and key HR analysis (for example turnover and absence reporting)
• Responsible for the co-ordination of contractor extensions in the UK. Notifying line manager and HRBP when a contractor is due to expire well in advance to facilitate extension or exit
• Maintaining Group HR teams online resources on SharePoint or most appropriate forum
• Represent the Group Central Functions in any UAT testing for new system capabilities and roll outs
• Troubleshoot issues with HR processes, operations and/or HR administration
• Be an HR systems super-user and provide advice/support to line managers utilizing available resources
• Own creation of offline organisational charts as and when these are required
• Have a continuous improvement mindset, ensuring you seek and offer solutions to enhance processes

Recruitment

• Provide support to hiring managers to complete requisitions to hire for vacant positions ensuring accurate position and reward package information is submitted to the Talent Acquisition team
• Partner hiring managers to ensure that for every interview set up, they are supported with an Interview Plan utilising the Interview Builder with appropriate interview questions advised and selected
• Partner hiring managers with first stage interviews as requested by the HRBPs. Ensure constructive and useful feedback is provided to candidates either directly or via the Talent Acquisition team
• Support the HRBPs and the Expertise teams with driving graduate and placement schemes across Nomad

Induction & Onboarding

• Educate line managers and new employees on our induction process
• In conjunction with line managers, ensure all new employees have induction plans in place
• Advise line managers on suitable content for induction plans and in partnership with line managers, ensure new starters complete all onboarding activities and schedule their attendance  at sessions with the CEO
• Track new starter attendance of onboarding initiatives, facilitate feedback and make recommendations for continuous improvement

Culture 

• Proactively participate in the ongoing cultural journey, living our company values every day
• Drive and support the co-ordination of the quarterly Nomad Foods People Awards across Shared Finance
• Preparation, analysis and reporting for Our Voice Employee Opinion Survey and pro-actively getting involved in the collation of action plans

Performance Management

• Support Employees and Managers on how to have effective mid year/end of year PDP conversations
• Support line managers with PDP completion online on Success Factors
• Track and monitor completion, providing regular reports to HRBPs on PDP completion
• Analyse development plans and report key themes identifying opportunities to promote performance cycle activities

Reward

• Assist with the co-ordination of the annual review and any associated data integrity exercises

L&D

• Responsible to co-ordinate the Group Central Functions participants to Nomad wide L&D programmes
• Manage nomination and communication process for Global Initiatives such as Management, Leadership and SHINE for women programmes
• Co-facilitation of in-house HR led training programmes

Talent Management

• Co-ordinate annual cycle for Group functions and support HRBPs with pre-work and facilitation as required

Employee Relations

• Partner line managers on ER case work providing advice and guidance accordingly
• Serving as a note-taker in ER meetings as and when required
• Track ER case work globally for Group Functions
• First point of contact for all ER queries
• Creation of all ER documentation

Graduates

• Assist with the running of the Nomad Foods Tech & Finance graduate programmes including recruitment, assessment centre days, in-house and external training
• Support the onboarding of the 2024 graduate cohort
• Support with the organisation of 2024/25 graduate rotations, working with function sponsors and Reward
• Assist with the co-ordination of the Mid-Year PDP review and calibration process

HR projects

• Work alongside HRBPs with the creation and implementation of key HR projects across the business area’s

Essential

• 2 year+ relevant HR experience
• Has thorough knowledge of UK employment law
• Experience of managing lifecycle activity
• Aptitude for working with HR information systems
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft applications including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. And generally tech savvy!
• Ability to build good working relationships remotely
• Ability to be flexible and work across multiple issues in support of the HRBP agenda
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong planning and organisational skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Numerate and able to analyse and draw conclusions from data
• Able to deal with a wide range of people both based locally and internationally of varying seniority levels
• Customer focused approach with a mindset of ‘Excellent Execution’ – right first time
• Self-starter and happy to work to a degree independently
• Ability to work as part of a team as well as on own initiative
• Flexible and willing to learn

Desirable

• Degree educated
• CIPD qualified
• Experience of SuccessFactors
• Experience of iCIMS ATS
• Experience of Microsoft Teams/Cisco Webex
• Previous experience advising on employment law
• International employment legislation