Labour Analyst

Date: Oct 11, 2025

Location:

Livingston, GB

Place of Work: On-Site

Company Description

We are FBC UK, Fox's Burton's Companies! ……And we bake the UK's most incredible biscuits (we might be slightly biased, but we will leave that for you to judge).

FBC UK was a match made in heaven, with two of the top UK biscuits manufacturers (Burton's Biscuits and Fox's Biscuits) coming together to create one unique, integrated company.

We are home to famous iconic brands, including Maryland, Fox's, Jammie Dodger & Rocky, to name just a few. We are proud manufacturing partners to some of the biggest UK retailers and household names. We bake our incredible biscuits at eight bakeries across the UK, located at Isle of Arran, Livingston, Blackpool, Llantarnam, Edinburgh, Kirkham, Batley & Dorset and our HQ in St Albans. Together, we employ circa 4,000 amazing colleagues across all our locations.

We are committed to building an inclusive workforce that feels empowered to build a fulfilling and successful career. By embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) we create a supportive environment for people to thrive and strive to have more positive impact.

We understand that having formal and on-the-job learning opportunities is key to our colleagues’ professional and personal growth. We are committed to providing an environment where everyone can learn from each other and grow through a variety of learning experiences.

Our colleagues make our business special. With strong community values, we believe FBC UK is a more prosperous and fun place to work when people feel free to be themselves. We believe in the power of being authentic, entrepreneurial, and supporting each other whilst meeting our business goals.

About the Role

We've got an opportunity to join our Livingston bakery as a Labour Analyst! As Labour Analyst, you will be responsible for overseeing and managing the workforce to ensure efficient and effective running of the Production Lines. This role requires excellent communication, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. Ideally, you will bring previous experience of workforce planning or a similar role, and use your analytical skills to ensure attendance and payroll information is accurate.

Main Responsibilities

ADMINISTRATION

•Effective administration and reporting of labour within the Plant production functions, reporting to key stakeholders

•Manages work attendance reporting (absence & sickness, overtime, vacations, leavers, etc.) ensuring accuracy to produce payroll upload.

•Contributes to internal and external audits in a timely manner when required.

•Assisting with key stakeholders with ad hoc activity and reporting requirements.

•Management of new starter system access.

•Coordinate agency timesheet reporting to ensure accuracy of payments

WORKFORCE READY DATA MANAGEMENT

•Collects and ensures timely and appropriate data management for Cost Centre and attendance types etc.

•Promptly and accurately resolves time exceptions for the factory-based colleagues daily.

•Proactively provide opportunities to the time management and payroll analyst for system optimisation and efficiencies.

•Work Closely with Payroll and T&A for system changes and upgrades.

REPORTING AND ANALYSIS

•Provides reports and analysis about colleagues attendance and payroll information.

•Support the key stakeholders to monitor and analyse forecasted hours vs. actual ones to enable broader analysis.

•Weekly reporting to payroll team issues and anomalies.

•Effective planning and reporting of labour, within the plant production functions, ensuring the data for each function is accurate for payroll review.

•Updating daily absence reports for internal management information.

•Generate reports (hours reports)/ highlight risk hours/ pp situation.

•Continuous improvement and recommending system changes.

COMMUNICATION

•Work together with Plant Planning to elaborate reports to apply correct decisions for shifts.

•Contributes to proper communication of processes and touchpoints, cascading through the line managers to the teams.

•Continually working with managers to ensure efficiency of time and attendance process and providing training/support where required.

•Reporting and resolving (where possible) issues with the clocking in machine.

•Communication with the HR team regarding departmental moves to ensure accurate cost centre and reporting line allocation.

Who we are looking for

Proven experience in labour management/workforce planning or a similar role.
Experience managing relationships with external stakeholders including agencies.
Strong understanding of labour laws and regulations.
Excellent planning and organising skills.
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and labour management software.

Diversity Statement

FBC UK is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at FBC UK. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.

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