HR Business Partner

Position Title: HR Business Partner
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 43584
HR Business Partner - Harnes Plant
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences, together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role
This HR Business Partner opportunity offers the chance to support our Harnes manufacturing operation, providing direct exposure to operational leadership, people strategy, and business transformation initiatives within a dynamic manufacturing environment.
As a strategic advisor to business leaders and employees, you will drive people strategies that support growth, organizational effectiveness, talent development, employee engagement, and business performance. As a key member of the leadership community, you will partner with leaders and HR Centres of Excellence to deliver impactful people solutions that enable sustainable success across the site.
In addition to your HR Business Partner responsibilities for the Harnes plant, you will play a key role in managing employee relations and social dialogue activities with employee representative bodies for both the Harnes manufacturing site and our European Headquarters in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, supporting a combined employee population of approximately 600 employees.
What you'll be doing

• Partner with business leaders to develop and execute people strategies aligned with operational and organizational objectives.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on organizational design, workforce planning, talent management, succession planning, employee engagement, and change management initiatives.
• Lead and develop direct report(s), providing coaching, performance management, and development planning.
• Drive a culture of performance, accountability, inclusion, and positive employee relations.
• Collaborate with HR Centres of Excellence, including Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Compensation, and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, to implement business-focused people solutions.
• Coach leaders on talent decisions, performance differentiation, leadership effectiveness, and organizational capability building.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to develop robust talent pipelines and staffing strategies that support future business needs.
• Lead and support complex employee and labor relations matters, including managing relationships and consultation processes with employee representative bodies (CSE/Works Councils) for both the Harnes site and the European Headquarters in Villeneuve-d'Ascq.
• Utilize workforce data, analytics, and business insights to inform decisions and influence outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with employment legislation, company policies, and HR governance standards.

What you'll need to be successful

• Master's degree in Human Resources, Business, Management, Law, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of progressive HR Business Partner experience, ideally supporting manufacturing, industrial, or plant-based environments.
• Demonstrated experience driving organizational change, employee engagement, talent management, succession planning, and organizational development initiatives.
• Strong employee and labor relations expertise, including experience within unionized environments.
• Experience working with employee representative bodies and managing social dialogue processes.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to balance business priorities with people-focused solutions.
• Advanced analytical skills with experience leveraging data to support decision-making and problem-solving.
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, coaching, and relationship-building capabilities.
• Strong negotiation skills and the confidence to navigate complex and sensitive situations.
• Solid understanding of employment law and HR best practices.
• High emotional intelligence, adaptability, resilience, and professional integrity.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across all organizational levels.
• Fluent English and French language skills are necessary.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.

About the team
The HR Business Partner reports to the HR Director Manufacturing and is a member of both the Harnes Plant Leadership Team and the broader European HR organization.
This highly visible role supports employees and leaders across the Harnes manufacturing site, partnering closely with operational leaders, HR specialists, regional HR colleagues, and global Centres of Excellence. You will play a key role in driving organizational effectiveness, workforce transformation, talent development, employee engagement, and business performance within the plant.
In addition, the role is responsible for coordinating and supporting social dialogue activities with employee representative bodies for both the Harnes manufacturing site and the European Headquarters in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, representing approximately 600 employees.
This unique combination of operational HR partnership and employee relations leadership provides valuable exposure to both manufacturing and corporate stakeholders while maintaining a primary focus on the Harnes plant.
About McCain
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Leadership principles
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
For this role, key leadership principles include:

• We are customer obsessed.
• We think big and plan ahead.
• We bring out the best in our people.
• We act like owners.

The McCain experience
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another.
Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
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Job Family: Human Resources
Division: Continental Europe
Department: Human Resources Harnes
Location(s): FR - France : Pas-de-Calais : Harnes
Company: McCain Alimentaire SAS