Head of People and Culture

We are pleased to be working with a fantastic business that operate on a global basis within a high-growth industry. The Head of People and Culture will be responsible for the UK and Ireland, supporting the leadership team and rolling out the People and Culture strategy across the employee base which are spread across multiple sites in the UK. A business that genuinely puts its people at the heart of their operations, they offer a great rewards package and opportunity for growth and development.

We are looking for an experience HR leader who has worked at Head of HR/Head of People level, has experience of leading HR teams, strong commercial acumen and is competent partnering with senior leaders.

Hybrid working with 3 days per week in the office close to Hemel/Watford with good transport links. On top of a salary package of circa £70,000 to £80,000 there is excellent bonus potential and benefits.

Role overview:

• Overall responsibility for the following areas; people & culture processes, employee benefits and reward cycles, employee wellbeing & engagement, Employee Relations, competency management, Learning & Development, contracts and policies, Talent Acquisition, employee onboarding process
• Implementation of People & Culture strategies for UK&I, in line with organisational objectives
• Managing key people & culture process for UK&I including engagement surveys, merit & bonus processes, gender pay gap reporting and performance management
• Providing day to day management support to the UK&I people & culture team, being the main escalation point for all aspects of People & culture including:
• Supporting the team with their onboarding and personal development plans, providing coaching and feedback on a regular basis.
• Working closely with Global Head of People & Culture to ensure local stakeholders from these groups are effectively supported.
• Development and ownership of the UK&I People & Culture budget
• Leading on any local organisational change requirements, including redundancy and TUPE
• Leading on local compensation strategy, including regular benchmarking of roles to ensure we remain competitive in our offering.
• Implementation of policies which support our overall D&I strategy.
• Using key people & culture data and analysis to help drive enhancements to our local processes and policies.
• Work closely with IT teams to ensure data integrity and security within people & culture systems.
• Ensuring compliance with local employment legislations across our policies and practices, including collaborating with our payroll and tax teams to ensure compliance.
• Attending regular meetings and providing updates/presentations to the UK&I management team
• Attending all UK&I Crisis Management team meetings as the subject matter expert for people & culture
• Providing support to other regions and for other initiatives as required

Candidate requirements:

• Strong experience at Head of HR/Head of People level essential
• Demonstrable experience of leading HR teams
• Experience of working in a large, complex, multisite business
• Understanding of the commercial / financial drivers that underpin decision making
• Demonstrable examples where you have effectively delivered organisational and contractual change
• Experienced in using and analysing data to form structured proposals and arguments
• Ability to adjust your communication style as required for internal group communication, senior team decision making or Board proposals
• Proven experience of build relationships across the above groups as well as with external parties
• The aptitude to quickly understand complex HR legal issues and identify and propose solutions
• You will be innovative, aspirational, driven and appropriately tenacious.
• Detail focused with a hands-on approach, must be prepared to follow up your ideas with delivery of the improvement

Think Human Resources is the HR division of Think Specialist Recruitment, an independently owned recruitment business. The HR division is responsible for recruiting permanent, temporary and contract roles within the field of Human Resources including; HR Administrator, HR Assistant, HR Advisor, HR Business Partner, HR Manager, Head of HR, Employee Relations, talent, internal recruitment, Learning and Development, Compensation and Benefits/Reward and Recognition.