HR Consultant

About the Company

A global FMCG organisation is seeking a hands-on, high-impact HR Business Partner to support a major period of transformational change. This is a fast-paced, delivery-focused role supporting both blue- and white-collar populations in a unionised environment.

About the Role - Contractor role can be remote until the end of the year

This is not admin. Not a task-taking role. This is for someone who owns work, drives outcomes, brings structure and delivers exceptional documentation across complex people matters.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders and across a mixed workforce
• Support restructuring, workforce planning, performance, talent and wider people initiatives
• Build strong relationships with trade unions and support union engagement
• Deliver confident HR advice during change programmes
• Support ER cases (grievances, disciplinaries, performance) with high-quality written outputs
• Produce clear investigations, case summaries and stakeholder briefs
• Bring pace, judgement and clarity where work needs direction
• Support delivery of the UK People Plan in a global matrix environment

Qualifications and skills

Strong HRBP experience in global FMCG, industrial or similar high-performance environments

• Proven experience with unionised blue- and white-collar teams
• Solid UK ER expertise and confidence handling complex cases
• Able to influence senior leaders and act as a trusted advisor
• Exceptional written communication - structured, accurate, clear
• Highly organised, proactive, and confident driving work independently
• Experience with HR systems (Workday ideal)
• CIPD Level 5+ or equivalent experience
• Exceptional written communication - structured, accurate, clear
• Highly organised, proactive, and confident driving work independently
• Experience with HR systems (Workday ideal)

We are committed to diversity and inclusivity.

Inventum Group is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.