HR Change Manager (12 Month FTC)

Are you ready for a change?

Here at GXO, we are currently recruiting for a HR Change Manager to join our team, supporting our customer Waitrose. Being based at one of our operations for Waitrose (Milton Keynes, Leyland, Greenford or Reading), you will be responsible for ensuring that the contract and its key stakeholders are given the right level of support and active execution of the people strategy to successful deliver specific change initiatives across the contract to mitigate any risk to the operations, service to our customer and maximise employee engagement.

This is a full time, 12 month secondment, predominately working Monday to Friday, 09:00 till 17:00. With this being a national role, there will be some travel to various sites when required.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £52,000.00 per annum, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes, a company sponsored pension scheme, private medical & dental insurance, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You’ll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more! 

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Support the Snr HRBP and Snr Ops Director with the creation of the stakeholder management and engagement plans with defined deliverables of specific change initiatives
• Focus on key change areas including Reorganisation, Rationalisation, & changes in T&C’s
• External customer liaison, ensuring the customer is fully informed and updated at all times
• Creation, deployment and communication for specific HR change projects and change plans to include delivery of consultation plans
• Identify and analyse change impact, organisational readiness and support a change management strategy that mitigates risk and maximises employee engagement

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Demonstrable ability and proven track record of successfully delivering change interventions in a complex and fast paced environment
• Credible HR professional with a strong generalist HR background with an excellent understanding of UK employment law and industrial relations (TUPE, Redundancy, Change of Terms and Conditions etc.)
• Ability to influence, constructively challenge and impact at all levels with excellent communication and organisational skills
• Holder of CIPD level 5 is advantageous but not essential

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GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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