Job Description

Main Responsibilities & Duties

• Broad HR generalist experience, including employment law, employee relations, training and development, succession planning, business continuity, annual appraisal implementation, performance management, disciplinary and grievance procedures, strategic resource planning, recruitment and induction process, HR policies and procedures, compensation reviews and bonus proposals, payroll and benefit management (including pension), absence recording and management.
• Responsible for the direct management of HR employees and Administration Assistants, including coaching, mentoring and allocation of workloads.
• Consistent management of a wide range of employee relations whilst mindful of company policy and procedures and the continuous assessment of legal risk.
• Building strong professional relationships with all senior management team, other senior managers, as well as employees.
• Creating, managing and operationally executing of specific people plans within the business, including talent and performance management, strategic workforce planning and employee engagement.
• Effectively managing complex employee relation issues and mitigating business risk.
• Developing and measuring performance management strategies and plans to demonstrate improved business performance.
• Using workforce intelligence to identify people management requirements and performance solutions and establish credibility as an expert in strategic HR.
• Building trusted and valuable partnerships at all levels within the organisation to translate People & Culture strategy into practical and pragmatic solutions that makes a difference to key business priorities.
• Ensuring all relevant legislative requirements, including those relating to diversity and inclusion, are embedded in the advice provided to senior leadership and people managers.
• Managing the business implementation of key People & Culture initiatives which may include performance management, workforce management, i.e. workforce plans, cost of workforce etc. talent management and leadership and development programs.
• Facilitating, coaching, challenging and developing senior stakeholders and their teams to influence their individual and collective mindset, behaviour and performance in order to achieve targeted business outcomes.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Experienced Senior Level HR Practitioner with experience of working within a large (1000+ employee business), complex and professional organization and working within a fast-paced environment. Exceptional relationship and stakeholder management skills. Proven ability to partner challenging client groups as they grow, develop and experience significant changes. Proven ability to influence, challenge and persuade at a Senior/Director level. Be able to demonstrate the improvement of business performance through results. Experience of developing, implementing and managing strategic implementation plans and key change initiatives. Experience of coaching senior managers and be able to facilitate and deliver HR initiatives. Strong generalist experience with a business and commercial focus. Excellent presentation skills including the ability to engage various audiences and levels of seniority from the ground up. Strong business awareness with the ability to recognise how HR levers can be used in support of business strategy in the longer-term. A willingness to be hands-on and very involved with all areas of the HR function. A Minimum of CIPD level 5 at a minimum. A related degree in the specified field is desirable.