HR Manager
Are you ready to shape, mould, and elevate one of our key performing sites to even greater heights? As a HR Manager, you’ll have a real opportunity to make an impact—pulling together a hardworking, robust team, supporting and coaching the senior leadership team, and driving a culture of engagement, development, and success.
This isn’t just about keeping the plates spinning; it’s about taking ownership to create and execute plans that strengthen the whole site and elevate our People team. You’ll lead on talent succession, retention, and culture, and have the chance to influence and inspire across every level.
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead and manage an onsite People Team (up to 8 colleagues) to build a high-performing, motivated, and well-trained team.
- Shape and deliver a site people plan that not only aligns with the Morrisons vision but is tailored to the unique needs of your site.
- Develop and grow the HR team’s talent, ensuring their continued professional development and progression.
- Work in partnership with the Site and Senior Leadership Teams, acting as a trusted advisor to drive key initiatives in culture, retention, and succession planning.
- Foster a culture of respect and inclusion, where managers listen to and act on colleague feedback.
- Coach and support the management team to nurture performance and unlock potential across the site.
- Ensure all ER, IR, and Payroll practices are compliant, consistent, and aligned with company standards.
- Own recruitment and labour supply—permanent and temporary—ensuring a smooth and engaging experience for all candidates and colleagues.
- Drive the development of clear succession plans for all salaried colleagues, so the site’s future is in safe hands.
- Support Health and Safety across the site, prioritising the wellbeing of our colleagues and customers.
- Collaborate with operational teams to identify efficiencies, deliver labour budget targets, and continually improve ways of working.
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About you
You’ll be a strategic thinker with a real passion for driving culture change and fostering engaged teams. You’ll bring creativity and pragmatism to your ideas and be excited about shaping the future of one of our best-performing sites. You’ll also be:
- CIPD qualified (or equivalent HR management experience).
- Experienced in fast-paced, agile, and demanding environments—ideally manufacturing or logistics.
- A confident communicator who can engage and influence at all levels.
- Skilled in dealing with complex ER cases, with a strong understanding of employment law.
- Comfortable working in a unionised environment and partnering with colleagues to deliver positive outcomes.
- A coach and mentor who grows people and builds strong, cohesive teams.
- Proactive and driven by continuous improvement—able to challenge the status quo and find better ways of working.
- Flexible and adaptable, with strong IT skills (MS Office and HR systems) and a willingness to travel to support other sites and projects.
Why join us?
- This role is fully site-based (no hybrid working), giving you the chance to be at the heart of the operation, driving real change and seeing your impact first-hand.
- You’ll have the autonomy to shape and mould the HR agenda at site level, influencing key decisions and helping to create a truly engaged, high-performing workforce.
- You’ll be part of a wider People team that’s passionate about supporting our colleagues and driving the success of our sites.
- Additionally, you will be a self-starter, be innovative and creative in your ideas and be driven by culture change and be pragmatic in your strategic thought process. You will hold a desire to step up in your career alongside the development of our current People team.
In return for your hard work we will offer you:
- Six weeks holiday (including bank holidays)
- 15% discount in our stores available from the day you join us
- Additional 10% discount More Card for a friend or family member
- Career progression and development opportunities
- Subsidised staff canteen
- Free parking
- Market leading pension and life assurance
- Healthcare/Well-being benefits including Aviva Digital GP
- Morrisons MyPerks with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more
- Long Service Awards
- Optional Payroll charity donations
- Enhanced Family/maternity/parental leave
About us
From a Bradford market stall to the UK’s 4th largest supermarket chain and the UK's 2nd largest fresh food manufacturer.We are proud to be the Yorkshire food retailer serving customers across the UK in over almost 500 stores and an online home delivery service. Our 18 manufacturing sites provide our customers with the freshest produce from flowers, fish and veg to burgers and bread, all delivered to our stores via our 6 distribution sites by our 2,000 strong fleet.
Every week, 11 million customers pass through our doors and around 97,000 colleagues across the business work hard each day to deliver great service to them. We cover more than 11 million households with our Morrisons.com service. With competitive, permanently low prices we are committed to helping our customers save money every day.
We are foodmakers and shopkeepers and #wemakemorrisons.
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Reward & Benefits
We've highlighted below some of our standard Rewards & Benefits that our colleagues receive. Please note, some roles come with additional benefits such as bonus, company car allowance etc. you'll find further details where applicable in our adverts, or you can speak to someone in our resourcing team for more information.
Plan your journey
Bridgwater, United Kingdom, TA6 4FG
Learning and development is at the heart of our business
As you can imagine, Morrisons is a busy place to be. There’s lots going on - processes, changes, new initiatives, different ways of working. And that’s just on a Monday morning.
It means there’s a lot to learn. But learning isn’t just about understanding what’s involved in day-to-day workloads. It’s also about growing and developing in your career, too. That’s why we’ve made sure that learning and development is at the heart of our business. We’re here to make sure everyone has everything they need to be their best - and to go as far as they want.
Our DE&I workstreams
We're proud to have a diverse group of colleagues working here. We want everyone to feel valued in an environment where we promote respect, where they feel a sense of belonging, and feel celebrated as individuals.
These are the moments that matter to them - and they matter to us, too.
Everyone is welcome to get involved in our Ethnic Diversity, Ability, LGBTQ+, Women, and Family & Carers workstreams, too. They’re designed to help us better reflect our customers, colleagues, and communities so we can become an even more inclusive business.
As a business, we love bringing people together. And we think it’s one of the biggest reasons to be part of our team.
Our Process
We've outlined below what our typical process looks like, this can vary slightly depending upon the role or team you've applied for. Our goal is to provide a positive and accessible experience for all applicants, ensuring everyone has the support they need to showcase their best selves.
Our resourcing team are on hand to help with any questions about your application and you can reach them by e-mailing resourcing@morrisonsplc.co.uk.
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Find an opportunity that's right for you
Once you've found a role that's right for you, you can apply via this site. If it's your first time applying with us then we'll need all your essential information and we might ask you to upload your most recent CV. If you've applied for roles with us before then we should recognise you and you won't need to share these details again, unless something has changed that you need to update us on.
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Online Assessment (Customer Assistant roles)
After your application, we might send you an e-mail and ask you to complete an online assessment. This is typically a situation judgement test where we'll ask you ten questions with mutliple choice answers and takes around 10-15 minutes to complete. The questions will give you a feel for the types of scenarios you might encounter working in our stores - think customer first.
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Let's find out more
For some of our stores and site roles, if you've been successful with your application we might just e-mail and ask you to book a slot for your interview. For other roles our resourcing team will get in touch with you to find out a bit more about you and why you applied. They'll also answer any questions you might have about us and the role. After all, it's a two way process!
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Interview
Our interviews are typically face to face but can sometimes be virtual. Don't worry, we'll advise either way. Your interview can differ depending on the role or team. Part of the interview may include some competency questions against our Ways of Working (listed below).
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Final Stage
With some of our roles there might be a second interveiw. This tends to be for roles in our Head Office and some salaried positions across our stores and sites. As part of this second stage, we might ask you to complete a task, such as a SWOT analysis or something similar, and present it back during the interview. This helps us understand your approach and thinking about the role.
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Decision
Our resourcing team or the store or site you've applied to will be in touch with you as soon as they can to let you know the outcome. If you've been successful we'll share the details of our offer with you and follow up with everything you need on e-mail.
Ways of Working
Our Ways of Working are like a set of values that define our core beliefs, guide decision-making, and shape our culture and how we operate.
Customer First - I care about our customers and do everything I can to meet their needs
Teamwork - I always play my part in the team, and I recognise we go further together
Working Freely in a Framework - I’m trusted to make my own decisions and encouraged to improve things for customers and for us
Care and Respect - We care more and try harder; for each other, for everyone around Morrisons
Listen and Respond - I take the time to talk with and listen to colleagues and customers, and always do the right thing for the them
Grow Sales, Low Cost - I understand my part in the end-to-end process and look for ways to drive improvement
Life at Morrisons offers more than you imagine.
We’re a Yorkshire based food manufacturer and retailer, and our story began with a simple market stall in Bradford all the way back in 1899. Today, we’re still just as committed to delivering on our promise of 'freshness from farm to fork' for every customer. It’s why we’ve grown to become one of the UK’s leading supermarkets. And, with 90,000 colleagues, nearly 500 stores, and 11 million customers every week, there are now more reasons to join us than you can imagine.
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