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Henkel holds leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses: Our portfolio includes well-known hair care products, laundry detergents, fabric softeners as well as adhesives, sealants, and functional coatings.
Junior HR Business Partner (Hybrid / UK – Plant-focused)
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Junior HR Business Partner (Hybrid / UK – Plant-focused)
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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
What makes you a good fit
- Experience managing employee relations cases with a sound understanding of UK employment law
- Strong HR operations capability and attention to detail
- Confidence working with HR data and translating insight into action
- Credible, pragmatic communicator able to build trust with managers and employees
- Comfortable working independently within defined frameworks, with appropriate escalation
- Experience supporting organisational change or M&A activity (desirable)
Some perks of joining Henkel
- Flexible work scheme with flexible hours, hybrid work model, and work from anywhere policy for up to 30 days per year
- Diverse national and international growth opportunities
- Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
- Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
- Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
- Performance bonus / incentives
- Competitive Pension & Life Assurance - Company contributes up to 10% of basic salary
- Annual Leave: 27 days plus 8 Bank Holidays
- Celebration vouchers
At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different genders, origins, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, disabilities, and generations.
JOB ID: 25089705
Job Locations: United Kingdom, England, Hemel Hempstead
Contact information for application-related questions: RecruitmentUKIE@henkel.com
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I am interested in several jobs. Can I apply for multiple positions at the same time?
Yes – simply fill out your profile in our online application system. Once your online profile is complete, you can apply for multiple positions.
The job offer is written in English – should I write my application in English as well?
Yes, please. As Henkel is an international company you will be working with colleagues from all over the world and English is our official company language. Generally, the ‘rule’ is: please write the application in the same language as the job ad.
Do I get feedback during the application process about the state of my application?
Each position that we have open with Henkel is unique, and finding the right candidate is important for both the hired candidate as well as for Henkel. We want to make sure that both the candidate and the company are a good fit for each other. We will provide feedback to the candidates throughout the entire process.
Can employees move between business areas and/or to a different country?
Yes, in fact it is an expectation within Henkel that our talent is flexible and mobile. This helps to support the company on a broad, global level.
Our “Triple Two” philosophy promotes this expectation, by allowing you to work in at least two different roles, in two different business areas and two different countries. The reason behind this philosophy is that we believe working in different roles, business units and functions is good for your personal development and improves your understanding of Henkel as a global company.
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Whom do I contact if I have questions concerning my application?
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