HR Business Partner vacancy in Lithuania

We're looking for an experienced HR Business partner to join us! Camira is a British textiles company and you will be based at our site in Ariogala. Please note you must be bilingual in Lithuanian and English for this role.

Purpose

• To consistently and effectively drive and deliver the Company’s people strategy to support the Ariogala site in line with our company values, company procedures & legal requirements supporting the achievement of the Vision and Business Strategy.
• To proactively partner and collaborate with the site Management team in providing practical HR support & solutions that meet business objectives.
• To create an environment of positive people management, ensuring we attract, develop & retain talented people who are fully engaged and productive.
• To effectively manage HR administration for the site and contribute to reducing operational costs ensuring all activity is carried out in a cost-effective manner.
• To actively encourage regular communication on site.

Responsibilities

Operational Excellence

• Ensure the site Management team focus on the importance of people by providing professional expertise to support them. Provide an efficient and effective HR administration service for the site.

Business Development

• Contribute to the development of the Company People Strategy with the Director of HR & HR team and develop and deliver the annual site People Plan.
• Clearly measure and document the impact of the HR function against key business drivers, presenting information in a way that is meaningful to the site management team and informs the change agenda.
• Devise site-specific people plans, in conjunction with the Group Director of HR, to drive change and improve business efficiencies in line with strategic goals.

Employee Engagement

• Act as a role model and actively drive a culture of positive employee engagement.
• Identify the key drivers of engagement and propose & implement solutions to address issues.
• Lead the employee opinion survey process to ensure maximum participation, timely analysis, effective cascade of the results, and the development and implementation of appropriate action plans.
• Actively promotes business initiatives and strives to develop a ‘Great place to work’.
• Celebrates successes.

Employee Relations

• Promote positive fair and impartial employee relations.
• Ensure an effective and consistent approach to people management including involvement, promotion, reward, disciplinary, grievance and employee consultation.
• Listen to employees and analyses feedback using it to improve employee relations.
• Attend the site Labour Council Meetings and ensures issues arising are addressed in a timely manner.

Policy Development

• Influence and participate with the HR team in the development of improved people policies and procedures.
• Ensure all people policies are up to date, fit for purpose & are compliant with Lithuanian employment legislation.

Recruitment & Resourcing

• Drive effective recruitment to meet current and future needs of the site.
• Develop and implement plans to enable the site to become an ‘Employer of Choice’.
• Manage the recruitment process, training and supporting managers, instilling professionalism and best practice to ensure high calibre candidates are recruited to achieve company strategy.
• Ensure all new starters receive a comprehensive induction.
• Actively contribute to and challenge site manpower plans to encourage work force flexibility, reducing labour costs and managing temporary staff use ensuring appropriate consideration has been given to reviewing structures, costs and future needs.
• Periodically undertake external salary bench-making highlighting external trends and ensuring pay rates are appropriately reviewed.

Building Capability

• Drive succession planning and support performance management activities to build capability of the site team to meet current and future needs of the site.
• Develop the management development agenda, delivering increased leadership competency meeting the succession needs of the site.
• Partner with Site Manager & Management team identifying both the opportunities and solutions to close performance gaps through learning and development activities and ensuring technical skills continuity.
• Support the delivery of Leadership development programmes, that highly engage and inspire our people, enabling them to fulfil their career potential.
• Determine future talent needs in the business and initiate, implement and review appropriate strategies and action plans.
• Ensure the PDR and IDP process is utilised effectively & appropriate development plans are implemented, reviewed, updated and learning and development needs addressed.

Employee Wellbeing

• Actively promote a positive safety, health and environment culture.
• Ensure the effective use of the Company Doctor and support the promotion of employee health and well-being.
• Analyse, develop proposals and implement actions to reduce absenteeism levels and costs and promote positive attendance.
• Monitor the progress of short term & long term absentees, liaising with Line Managers as appropriate.
• Support and challenge the site team to ensure appropriate action is taken following accidents.
• Encourage and support the promotion of good health and wellbeing by taking an active role in site health promotional activities.

Management of the HR Function

• Cascade key business messages to direct report.
• Provide coaching & mentor direct report and conduct regular 1-1’s.
• Promote an environment where continuous development and improvement is paramount, working in line with the values, promoting a culture of leadership and responsibility.
• Be the first point of contact for line managers in dealing with people and HR issues, challenging decisions and providing sound and consistent advice and support in line with legislation and company values and procedures.
• Promote the visibility of the HR team across the business by regularly spending time on the shop floor and maintaining a HR presence so queries and concerns can be addressed in a timely manner adding value through face to face discussions.
• Coach, train and develop line managers in all aspects of people management including sickness absence, performance management processes, investigations and recruitment embedding best practice.
• Provide effective leadership and guidance to the HR Assistant in line with the values, ensuring clear objectives, regular reviews and a personal development plan is in place.
• Create a culture of professionalism ensuring high levels of accuracy and customer service are demonstrated consistently.

Cost Control

• Contribute to reducing operational costs and optimising unit cost and ensure all activity is carried out in a cost- effective manner.
• Assist the site Management Team to achieve their business goals through efficient and effective people processes ensuring costs are minimised and value maximised.

In return you'll receive:

• Full-time permanent role
• Salary 3670 Eur (monthly)
• Office based but some flexibility to work from home
• Many more!