HR Business Partner

Dyson Farming is a family-owned business, with a vision to benefit future generations through a commitment to commercially viable and environmentally sustainable food production  strive to be industry leaders in efficient, carbon-neutral, high-technology agriculture, employing highly skilled, pioneering people and supported by research and development in an ever-closer partnership with our sister company, Dyson. We see the future of agriculture as an exciting opportunity to improve the nation’s food security, health, and economic growth.

The HR Business Partner acts as a strategic partner to business leaders, providing expert advice and support on all people-related matters. This role ensures alignment between HR strategy and business objectives, driving workforce engagement, performance, and compliance.

While this role is based in Lincolnshire, you will be supporting sites in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire and in addition, monthly travel to the Weybourne, the parent company in Wiltshire.

• Develop effective on-going relationships with key stakeholders across the DFL and Weybourne.
• Coach, train and challenge managers on their approach to people issues, advising them on best practice approaches.
• Operate as HR lead on employee relation issues.
• Support the Exec and management team in the planning and implementation of organisational change, HR projects and initiatives that support the people strategy and individual business plans.
• Produce HR metrics for presentation at Senior Exec level and deliver through quarterly people reviews.
• Working with stakeholders to create the labour budget.

• Oversee the end-to-end payroll process for the weekly and monthly processes, ensuring that internal SLAs are met across the stakeholders.
• Oversee the delivery of all compensation administration in relation to the annual salary review process including salary benchmarking activities, Remuneration Committee meetings and bonus schemes.
• Ensure benefit offering remains competitive and reviewed annually.

• Manage our applicant tracking system (Workable) and support hiring managers with recruitment for their teams.
• Develop the candidate experience.
• Oversee talent pipeline opportunities including organising and ensuring smooth running of the Summer Series, Careers Fairs and manage relationships with universities and colleges.
• Manage the relationships with recruitment agencies on our PSL.

• Manage the SLA's for labour providers who supply Seasonal Workers to the Glasshouse.
• Ensure compliance on all ethical related audits.
• Maintain actions and controls on CGR.
• Align HR Policies with Group policies where applicable and implement local policies if required e.g. Human Rights Policy, Agency Worker Policy etc. Maintain, actively review and refine DFL HR policies and processes

• Ownership of the People Plan including ensuring key people activities are delivered in line with the plan.
• Drive the talent review process, working with BUOs to ensure development plans are in place and succession plans are mapped and kept up to date.
• Identify current and future skills gaps with stakeholders and develop training plans.
• Oversee the winter training programme ensuring mandatory training is completed.
• Work with stakeholders to source suitable training to address development needs.

• Employee engagement lead including administering the annual employee engagement survey and identifying improvement areas.
• Manage HR communications, including the company intranet.
• Oversee the health surveillance programme.

• Line management responsibility for the HR Assistant to deliver expert operational HR support. Including, setting goals and objectives and holding regular 1:1s.
• Stay abreast of employment law changes and best practice to ensure compliance.
• Proactively promoting and maintaining high standards work - taking initiative to resolve and/or draw attention to areas that don't meet required standards or any issues that arise.
• Commitment to developing yourself within your role - undergoing training where necessary.
• Other ad-hoc…