People & Performance Business Partner (interim)

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job title: People & Performance Business Partner

Location: Hybrid - connected to the Peterborough Head Office

Are you a HR Business Partner looking for a new opportunity to start immediately? Are you looking to gain experience in a forward-thinking and growing business?

We are recruiting a People & Performance Business Partner on a 6-month fixed-term contract to support business growth. The Agri Central function is essential for contributing to our business success. This position will support key functional areas, including Finance, IT, and Responsibility. You will empower teams to innovate and excel in an ever-evolving environment while ensuring BAU is maintained.

What you'll do:

• Partner with business leads and managers to ensure teams are structured, resourced, and skilled, while providing HR guidance, supporting organisational changes, ensuring legal compliance, and collaborating on wider People & Performance initiatives.
• Coach and support managers in talent development, succession planning, recruitment, and employee relations to increase performance and growth.
• Utilise HR systems to ensure reporting is accurate and data integrity is maintained. Interpret and present data effectively to encourage business decisions.

What you'll bring:

• Relevant HR qualification or experience.
• Full generalist HR knowledge across resourcing, talent management/succession planning, change management, employee relations & employment law, and good HR practices required.
• Effective interpersonal/communication skills, with the ability to develop relationships/networks at all levels quickly and encourage stakeholders.
• Change management and people management skills.
• Organisational and planning skills.
• Innovative thinker.

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 bonuses to 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. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that's because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we're building a fair, innovative, and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone. If you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else), just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive, and 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.