Anne Corder Recruitment Ltd

03/06/2026

We’re working with a well-established organisation within the agricultural and production sector to recruit a HR & Payroll Coordinator. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys a varied role combining HR administration, payroll coordination, employee support, and process improvement.

We’re seeking a proactive, organised, and detail-oriented individual who can support the smooth running of HR operations while acting as the key liaison between the business and the outsourced payroll provider.

This role would suit someone who thrives in a busy environment, enjoys working across multiple priorities, and is passionate about delivering an excellent employee experience.

What You’ll Be Doing as HR & Payroll Coordinator:

Acting as the key contact for payroll administration and pay-related queries across the business
Maintaining and updating the HRIS system accurately and ensuring employee records remain compliant and up to date
Supporting the full employee lifecycle including onboarding, contracts, changes to employment, and leaver administration
Coordinating payroll submissions and ensuring all payroll data is accurate and submitted within deadlines
Supporting managers and employees with HR administration and general HR queries
Producing HR reports, analysing trends, and supporting management decision-making
Supporting compliance processes including right to work checks, audits, training records, and HR documentation
Driving continuous improvement across HR and payroll administration processes

What We’re Looking For – HR & Payroll Coordinator:

Previous experience within payroll administration and/or HR support
Understanding of UK payroll legislation and payroll processes
Experience using HR systems/HRIS platforms
Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively
Excellent communication skills with the confidence to work with stakeholders at all levels
High attention to detail and a proactive approach to problem-solving
Ideally experience within manufacturing, FMCG, or a fast-paced operational environment
CIPD qualification (or working towards) would be advantageous

Benefits:

Salary of £30,000 to £35,000 depending on experience
32 days’ annual leave inclusive of Bank Holidays, increasing after 5 years’ service
Life insurance cover
Health cashback plan
Nest pension scheme

Why Apply?

Opportunity to join a supportive and collaborative team
Varied role with exposure to both HR and payroll operations
Ability to make a real impact within a growing business
A role offering ownership, responsibility, and ongoing development opportunities
Great opportunity for someone looking to further develop their HR and payroll career

If you’re looking for a rewarding position where you can contribute across both HR and payroll functions while building your career in a dynamic environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Please contact [email protected] for an informal discussion or apply via the advert: https://annecorder.co.uk/jobs/hrpayroll-coordinator-copy-295322

01/06/2026

🌟 June Update from Anne Corder Recruitment 🌟

This month, we’re exploring a growing challenge for engineering and manufacturing businesses: tribal knowledge.

What happens when the person who “just knows” how everything works leaves the business? From maintenance and production processes to customer requirements and quality standards, undocumented knowledge can quickly become a significant operational risk.

In our latest newsletter, we discuss:
✔️ Why tribal knowledge matters more than ever
✔️ The impact of skills shortages and retirements
✔️ How recruitment and succession planning can help protect your business

We’re also excited to share the launch of our new Engineering & Manufacturing community page, details of our upcoming webinar on Neuroinclusive Design, and where you can find us at CambsB2B North 2026.

👉 Read the full June newsletter here:

They know the machine that needs a slight adjustment before it behaves. They know the supplier who needs chasing. They know the workaround that keeps production moving. That knowledge is valuable, but if it only sits with one person, it can quickly become a business risk.

27/05/2026

Senior Supplier Relationship Manager - Supplier Relationship Lead – Staffordshire/Hybrid – £45-50k

ACR is working with a well-established and growing organisation operating within a regulated environment. Due to a strong focus on supply chain resilience, they are now looking to recruit a Supplier Relationship Lead to take ownership of supplier performance, risk management and continuity planning across UK Operations.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced supply chain or procurement professional to play a key strategic role in protecting operational stability, strengthening supplier capability, and driving long-term supplier partnerships within a fast-paced business

Supplier Relationship Lead’s Key Responsibilities:

• Lead strategic relationships with key and critical suppliers across UK Operations
• Own and develop the supplier risk and resilience framework, ensuring continuity of supply and proactive mitigation planning
• Monitor supplier performance, operational capability, and risk exposure, driving continuous improvement initiatives
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Procurement, Planning, Quality, Operations, and Logistics teams to align supplier strategies with business objectives
• Support supplier onboarding, governance, and development activities to improve operational robustness and long-term supply stability

Skills & Experience Required as a Supplier Relationship Lead:

• Previous experience within Supplier Relationship Management, Procurement, Category Management or Supply Chain Management
• Strong understanding of supplier risk management, supply continuity, resilience planning and supplier governance
• Experience managing critical suppliers within manufacturing, FMCG, pharmaceutical, engineering, logistics or regulated environments
• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation and communication skills
• Strong analytical and organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities within a fast-paced environment

Benefits Package:

• Salary between £45-50k depending on experience
• Hybrid/flexible working options
• Excellent long-term career progression and development opportunities within a growing organisation

If this Supplier Relationship Lead sounds like a role that would match your skills and experience, we would love to hear from you and look forward to discussing your application in more detail.

https://annecorder.co.uk/jobs/senior-supplier-relationship-manager-295006

27/05/2026

The best specialist engineers are not on job boards. They are already employed, well-treated, and not particularly interested in your advert.

That is the reality of niche engineering recruitment right now. Businesses have become much more specific about what they need from a technical hire, and that precision is a good thing operationally. But it has made the search considerably harder.

We are seeing it clearly in the briefs we receive. Roles described as multi-skilled often have a dominant discipline buried in the detail. Specifications built by committee contain requirements that cannot coexist in a realistic candidate. And salary brackets set years ago are being held up against a market that has moved.

None of this means specialist engineering roles cannot be filled well. It means they reward a different approach: sharper briefs, earlier engagement, honest benchmarking, and a recruiter who can reach people who are not actively looking.

We have written about the shift towards niche engineering roles and what it means for employers trying to hire well. It is worth a read if you are building an engineering team or trying to understand why a current search is taking longer than expected.

Read the blog here: https://annecorder.co.uk/blog/the-rise-of-the-niche-engineer-why-specialist-roles-are-making-recruitment-harder

Engineering hiring has quietly got harder. Not because there are fewer engineers, but because businesses increasingly know exactly what kind of engineer they...

20/05/2026

Are you looking to build your career within the legal sector? ⚖️

Anne Corder Recruitment is recruiting for a Legal Assistant to join a respected and long-established law firm within their busy Property & Land Development team.

💷 Salary up to £30,000 DOE
📍 Supportive & collaborative working environment
📈 Excellent long-term career prospects

This role will involve:
✔️ Preparing legal contracts and documentation
✔️ Supporting new homes and land transactions
✔️ Handling client enquiries professionally
✔️ Maintaining case management systems
✔️ Assisting the wider legal team

We’re looking for someone who is highly organised, detail-oriented and confident communicating with clients and colleagues alike.

🎁 Benefits include:
• Staff discounts
• Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme

If this sounds like the next step in your career, we’d love to hear from you.

📩 Get in touch with Anne Corder Recruitment today: https://annecorder.co.uk/jobs/paralegal-265732

18/05/2026

Some businesses are using AI to cut admin, move faster, and focus their teams on the work that actually matters. That is the right use of the technology.

But a growing number of hiring managers are now using AI for shortcuts in the hiring cycle, and that is where the logic starts to break down.

AI screening tools are built to find patterns. They identify keywords, job titles, and qualifications against a defined set of criteria. What they do not find is the candidate who has done the job under a different title, or the person whose career path tells a more interesting story than their CV headings suggest. They do not see coachability, communication style, or the kind of quiet resilience that only becomes visible in a conversation.

Those candidates are being rejected before a single person has read their application. And some of them are exactly the people you are looking for.

In our latest blog, we look at where AI genuinely helps in both sales and hiring contexts, and where handing the decision to an algorithm creates problems that are harder to fix than the time it saved.

Worth reading if you are building a team this year or rethinking how your hiring process works.

https://annecorder.co.uk/blog/ai-and-the-art-of-working-smarter-what-sales-teams-and-hiring-managers-can-learn-from-each-other

AI is not coming for your job. But it is coming for the parts of your job you should not have been doing manually in the first place. Used with intent, it...

13/05/2026

🚨 NEW OPPORTUNITY | Industrial Relations Manager
📍 Peterborough | On-Site
📄 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract
💷 £68,000 - £75,000 + £7,000 Car Allowance

Anne Corder Recruitment is partnering with a major UK operational business to appoint an experienced Industrial Relations Manager to support a significant transformation programme across a multi-site manufacturing environment.

This is a highly specialised role focused on:
✔️ Industrial relations strategy
✔️ Union engagement & negotiations
✔️ Organisational restructuring
✔️ Workforce consultation & TUPE
✔️ Multi-site operational change

We’re looking for a commercially pragmatic and highly credible specialist with extensive experience operating within unionised manufacturing, logistics or engineering environments.

Key requirements:
🔹 10+ years’ industrial relations experience
🔹 Strong experience negotiating with Unite or similar trade unions
🔹 Expertise in restructuring, consultation & TUPE processes
🔹 Excellent UK employment law knowledge
🔹 Ability to lead confidently through periods of operational change

This is an exceptional opportunity to play a key role in a major transformation programme where your expertise will directly influence business success.

📌 UK-wide / multi-site travel required
📌 On-site role
📌 Contract position
📌 Applicants must have the right to work in the UK – no visa sponsorship available

To apply or find out more or apply, visit here: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4413452462/?trk=mcm

11/05/2026

Finance teams that only report on the past are already behind.

The companies that move well, and recover quickly when things do not go to plan, tend to have one thing in common. They have a finance business partner embedded in the business, not sitting in a back office, but in the room where decisions are made.

The difference between a finance function that produces outputs and one that genuinely shapes strategy is not about the quality of the reports. It is about proximity. A finance business partner who understands the commercial pipeline, the pressures on different teams, and the assumptions baked into the numbers can do something a report cannot. They can challenge, advise, and flag problems while there is still time to act.

We have written about what that actually looks like in practice, how horizon scanning works, what strong forecasting really means, and what to look for when you are hiring into this role.

If you are thinking about building this capability in your business, or hiring for it, it is worth a read.

https://annecorder.co.uk/blog/why-a-finance-business-partner-is-one-of-the-best-hires-your-company-can-make

Most companies know they need someone to manage the numbers. Fewer realise they need someone who can tell them what those numbers mean for the next three...

07/05/2026

🌟 May Update from Anne Corder Recruitment 🌟

This month, we’re exploring a trend we’re seeing more and more across the market — the rise of temporary hiring 📈

Businesses are still growing and hiring, but many are choosing temporary recruitment to maintain flexibility while managing increasing workloads and future uncertainty.

In our latest newsletter, we share insights into:
✔️ Why temporary hiring is on the rise
✔️ How candidate attitudes are changing
✔️ The benefits of a more flexible workforce strategy

Plus, details of our upcoming employer event for HR professionals and business leaders 🤝

👉 Read the full May newsletter here:

Over recent months, we’ve seen a clear and consistent shift in hiring patterns across our client base. Increasingly, organisations are choosing to recruit on a temporary basis, and this is no longer an isolated trend, but one we’re seeing play out time and again across multiple sectors.

05/05/2026

Most businesses say culture is a priority. Far fewer have thought seriously about who is responsible for building it.

The answer sits with HR. Not in a peripheral, box-ticking way, but in a fundamental one. The HR team shapes how people are hired, how they are managed, how they are developed, and how they feel about the business they work for. Every policy, every process, every conversation is either building the culture or quietly chipping away at it.

But here is the part that often gets overlooked. The composition of the HR team matters just as much as its capability. A team with a narrow range of backgrounds and perspectives will struggle to understand a workforce that looks nothing like itself. Diversity within HR is not a nice-to-have. It is what allows the function to do its job properly.

Our latest blog looks at why this matters, what a genuinely strong HR team looks like, and what to consider when making your next people hire.

Read it here: https://annecorder.co.uk/blog/how-a-great-hr-team-can-transform-your-business-culture

Culture is not a poster on a wall, and it is not a line in a values statement. It is the daily reality of how people are treated, how decisions are made, and...