HR Generalist Senior

Sensient Technologies is seeking a Senior HR Generalist to join their team in King's Lynn, UK. This full-time role involves providing comprehensive HR support throughout the employee life cycle, including managing employee relations, leading training programmes, and ensuring compliance with employment law. The successful candidate will foster strong relationships with employees and managers, utilise analytical skills to interpret HR data, and support the HRIS system. Sensient offers an attractive salary, benefits, and opportunities for professional growth within its global operations. The company is renowned for its innovative solutions in colours, flavours, and extracts across various industries.

Come join the skilled team at Sensient Technologies. We are collaborative, passionate, and 100% driven towards customer satisfaction… And we will be better with you.

As our new Senior HR Generalist, you will be responsible for providing operational HR support and expertise in all areas of the employee life cycle. If you are passionate about fostering an engaging and productive work environment, this is the role for you.

This is a full-time office-based role in our King’s Lynn site (UK), 5 days a week.

What you will do:

• Act as a central HR contact person for the Business Unit advising on HR policies and procedures
• Effectively lead and manage employee relations issues (end-to-end processes) by researching, investigating, presenting solutions and ensuring successful closure of employee issues
• Effectively manage relationship with the workforce, balancing the business’ and employee’ interests
• Participate in and lead the HR and payroll procedures and UK employee benefits
• Lead and facilitate training and development programs, maintain site learning management system
• Ensure compliance with employment law, Corporate & Group directives
• Ensure all onboarding and off-boarding activities are delivered and improvement action items followed up
• Support the annual performance management processes, as well as other HR projects
• Set up and facilitate employee Roundtable meetings, ensuring actions are assigned to action owners for completion
• Complete weekly, monthly and quarterly HR reporting and ensure data integrity is accurate for all HRIS technologies 
• As the HRIS Superuser for Europe, support the European employees with HRIS oracle system queries and supporting the HR European team with training of new HR users and any queries/access.

You will bring:

• Build rapport quickly and maintain effective working relationships with employees and managers across all levels
• A true pro-active, hands-on approach, high level of employee engagement as well as the ability to successful monitor the “pulse” of employees 
• A strong analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and act on this
• Proficiency in MS Office packages, with strong Excel reporting skills                       
• Ability to execute and thrive in a fast paced, high growth environment by delivering accurate results and meeting deadlines

What you will get:

• An excellent salary together with benefit offering
• A thorough and effective training experience during onboarding and beyond
• Opportunity to develop and grow within an international Group at business unit level, or outside within our other divisions 

About Sensient: 

Sensient Technologies Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors, and extracts. Sensient employs advanced technologies at facilities around the world to develop specialty food and beverage systems, cosmetic and pharmaceutical systems, specialty colors, and other specialty and fine chemicals. The Company’s customers include major international manufacturers representing most of the world’s best-known brands.

About Sensient Personal Care and Specialties Market (PCSM)

Sensient Personal Care and Specialties Market (PCSM) develops, produces, and markets ingredients and high-quality colors for the personal care and cosmetics industry, as well as Specialty Colors for use in household and industrial cleaners, specialist coatings and agriculture product applications.