About This Role
<p>Ecolab is looking for a HR People Partner!</p><p>The HR People Partner will provide proactive, commercially focused and pragmatic HR support to the Pest division</p><p>across the UK and Ireland. Working as part of the UK & Ireland HR team, the role will partner with managers to</p><p>strengthen people capability, support effective employee relations, enable consistent execution of core people</p><p>processes, and contribute to an inclusive, engaging and high-performing culture aligned to Ecolab’s values.</p><p>The role will act as a trusted advisor to managers, using people data, business insight and sound judgement to identify</p><p>trends, manage risk and support practical solutions that improve associate experience, manager effectiveness and</p><p>business performance.</p><p></p><p><i><span>Ecolab’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) reflects our longstanding value of working together to integrate diverse perspectives to challenge ourselves, reach our goals and do what’s right.</span></i></p><p></p><p><b>What will you do:</b></p><p>People partnering and manager support</p><ul><li>Partner with Pest division managers to support delivery of the people agenda, ensuring consistent application of company procedures and effective risk management.</li><li>Provide practical, commercially focused HR advice across a field-based, multi-site and customer-facing environment.</li><li>Coach and build manager capability in core people processes, enabling leaers to manage confidently, consistently and in line with Ecolab values.</li><li>Support managers to create inclusive, engaging team environments where associates feel valued, heard and able to perform at their best<br /> </li></ul><p>Employee relations, compliance and risk</p><ul><li>Advise managers on employee relations matters including disciplinary, grievance, performance, absence management and capability cases, in line with company procedures and employment legislation.</li><li>Identify and escalate complex, sensitive or high-risk matters appropriately, ensuring clear judgement, robust documentation and balanced decision making.</li><li>Remain up to date with relevant UK and Ireland employment law, internal polcy requirements and external HR trends, translating these into practical guidance for managers.</li><li>Support consultation activity, restructures, TUPE transfers, acquisitions and integration activity where required, including risk assessment, due diligence and employee communication suppor.<br /> </li></ul><p>Talent, performance and engagement</p><ul><li>Support recruitment, onboarding and probation processes, working with managers and Talent Acquisition to ensure a positive and effective new starter experience.</li><li>Promote timely completion of performance, development and talent processes, ensuring associates have clear objectives, regular feedback and meaningful development conversations.</li><li>Use engagement feedback, Your Voice Matters insights and manager conversations to identify themes and support practical action plans.</li><li>Contribute to talent discussions by helping managers identify capability needs, succession risks and opportunities to grow internal talent.<br /> </li></ul><p>Data, Insights and Continuous improvement</p><ul><li>Use people data and insight to identify trends in absence, attrition, employee relations, engagement and manager capability, recommending actions that support business priorities</li><li>Proactively identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve consistency and drive efficiencies through digital tools, MyEcolab, Workday and smarter ways of working.</li><li>Collaborate with HR Operations, HR Service Delivery, Centres of Excellence, specialist teams and external providers to ensure effective delivery of divisional and country people priorities.</li><li>Lead or contribute to HR projects, change activity and continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen the associate experience and enable business performance</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Minimum qualifications</b></p><ul><li>Strong HR generalist experience, ideally gained within a commercial, fast-paced, multi-site or field-based environment.</li><li>Proven experience advising managers on employee relations, absence, performance, capability and other people management matters.</li><li>Sound working knowledge of relevant UK employment law, with awareness of Ireland employment considerations or willingness to develop this knowledge.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with managers, stakeholders and HR colleagues, including within matrix structures.</li><li>Strong judgement, influencing skills and ability to provide pragmatic, risk-balanced and commercially aware solutions.</li><li>Ability to work autonomously, prioritise effectively and make decisions within agreed frameworks.</li><li>Confident using people data to identify trends, present insight and recomend practical actions.</li><li>Resilient, adaptable and comfortable working with ambiguity, changing priorities and competing demands.</li><li>Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and professionally at all levels.</li><li>Willingness and ability to travel across the UK and Ireland as required.</li></ul><p><br /><b>Desirable qualifications</b></p><ul><li>CIPD qualified or working towards CIPD qualification, or equivalent experience.</li><li>Experience supporting a customer-facing, mobile or operational workforce.</li><li>Experience supporting businesses across both the UK and Ireland.</li><li>Experience contributing to change management, TUPE, acquisition, restructuring or organisational effectiveness projects.</li><li>Experience using Workday, MyEcolab or similar HR systems and service delivery tools.<br /> </li></ul><p>#li-eu</p>