About this Position
Are you an HR professional ready to step into a role with meaningful impact — where your employee relations expertise, operational strength and people insight make a real difference?
We are recruiting a Junior HR Business Partner to support the Henkel Adhesives business in the UK (c.500+ employees). This role provides hands-on HR support across the employee lifecycle, with responsibility for supporting and managing employee relations casework for the blue-collar population (a subset of the overall workforce), working under the guidance of the HR Business Partner.
The role requires regular on-site presence at the Winsford and St Neots manufacturing plants to support managers and employees directly. You will also support preparatory and triage work on white-collar ER matters and may occasionally be exposed to ER activity in other UK business units, including Henkel Consumer Brands, as part of development and workload balancing.
What you´ll do
- Support and manage employee relations casework for blue-collar employees, ensuring timely, fair and legally compliant outcomes
- Provide early-stage ER guidance and prepare investigation materials, evidence packs and case summaries for white-collar ER matters
- Coach managers on policy application and early intervention to reduce escalation and repeat issues
- Deliver core HR operations including onboarding, offboarding and contract changes, ensuring accuracy and compliance
- Support annual people processes including performance management, salary review, promotion and succession planning
- Analyse HR and workforce data to provide insight on trends, risks and capability gaps
- Support HR due-diligence, change and integration activity, including preparation of documentation and stakeholder materials
- Work closely with the HR Business Partner, Centres of Expertise and HR Operations teams to deliver consistent, high-quality HR support
