People & Performance Business Partner

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job title:HR Business Partner

Location: Peterborough (Hybrid)

Contract: 6 months fixed-term contract / secondment Package includes : Salary from £40,000, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, including discretionary performance related bonus, car allowance, private healthcare, and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%

Are you a HR professional ready to take on a contract or secondment role to gain valuable experience? We are looking for a People & Performance Business Partner to join our commercially driven ABN team, enabling our business strategy across diverse functions including Logistics, Finance, Technical, Quality, and Safety. As a true partner to the business, you'll work closely with managers to embed best practices, increase performance, and champion our people agenda.

If you're ready to shape the future of work and help teams thrive, we want to hear from you!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Collaborate with leaders to ensure teams are effectively structured and resourced to meet business goals.
• Use your HR and employment law knowledge to support decision-making.
• Support organisational change initiatives with a focus on compliance and positive outcomes.
• Coach and guide managers to effectively lead their teams and navigate HR matters.
• Champion talent development by aligning with L&D to grow existing and emerging talent.
• Support strategic workforce planning and succession strategies.
• Collaborate with recruitment to enhance hiring, selection, and onboarding practices.
• Provide guidance on employee relations, performance management, and casework.
• Leverage HR systems to ensure accurate reporting and data integrity.
• Translate HR metrics into insights that drive smarter business decisions.

What You'll Bring:

• Experience in a People Partner or HR Business Partner role.
• Knowledge of HR best practices and employment law.
• An effective communicator who can persuade, coach, and challenge effectively.
• Comfortable working in a multi-functional business environment.
• Data-driven mindset with the ability to turn insight into action.

About The Company

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it.From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits - these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us

We're AB Agri part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we're passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we'd love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can - it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we'll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive - or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won't affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don't accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.