Interim Hr Manager

HR Manager - FTC to EOY

North Oxford

Up to GBP60,000

Interim HR Manager required for a crucial role in delivering effective HR services within a global manufacturer based in Oxfordshire. This alignment ensures that the HR objectives support and enhance the overall business strategy.

The primary focus is on implementing organizational development and talent strategies to attract, develop, and retain high-performing colleagues within the enabling functions. Responsibilities include leading recruitment efforts, managing employee relations, fostering employee engagement, and overseeing succession planning, organization design, and organizational effectiveness across the Enabling Functions.

Some of what you will be doing:

• Provide strategic and operational HR support to senior stakeholders.
• Lead talent management, succession planning, performance management, and engagement initiatives.
• Support organizational design and effectiveness, offering HR solutions and communication strategies.
• Collaborate with the Global HR team to develop and implement HR solutions that meet current and future needs.
• Analyze HR data and metrics to identify trends, issues, and opportunities for improvement, providing insights and recommendations.
• Ensure consistency and alignment of policies and processes with the Global HR Team, leading or supporting global projects as needed.
• Lead and participate in global HR projects and initiatives to support business strategy and enhance the employee experience.

Ideally, your skills and experience will include:

• Proven experience in delivering high-quality HR services.
• Strong ability to influence and manage stakeholders, adaptable to change, with flexible style and approach.
• Skilled negotiator, capable of achieving consensus among differing opinions.
• Customer-focused with excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to build strong relationships across all organizational levels.
• International experience, effective in a multicultural environment across multiple geographies.
• Proven change management skills in complex environments, able to build confidence and credibility at all levels.
• Good knowledge of employment and contract law, comfortable with technical HR discussions.