Head of Human Resources
Posted 3 days ago by Hunter Adams
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Summary: This interim Head of HR role involves providing comprehensive HR support, focusing on employee relations, engagement, development, and recruitment to align with company values and objectives. The position is a 3-month contract requiring an immediate start, ideal for candidates who thrive in a fast-paced, data-driven environment. The successful candidate will be responsible for partnering with the HR team and leadership to implement HR policies and practices effectively. Strong communication and analytical skills are essential for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with the broader HR Team to provide strategic and tactical HR support.
- Educate, support, and follow up with leaders and managers on HR policies and processes.
- Oversee employee relations investigations and documentation.
- Provide day-to-day performance management guidance to leadership.
- Support leaders and managers with HR-related functions.
- Provide data analysis and reporting based on business needs.
- Administer human resources policies and procedures.
- Establish best practices with the HR team for programs and events.
- Line manage the UK HR team.
Key Skills:
- Proven human resources and partnering experience.
- Experience in a manufacturing environment preferred.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office products, especially Excel.
- Highly analytical with data management skills.
- Knowledge of employment law.
- Excellent communication skills with influencing ability.
- Creative, agile, and flexible thinking.
- Strong presentation and facilitation skills.
- Self-confident with a strong sense of personal accountability.
- Ability to leverage technology to support the business.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: West Midlands
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: HR
This interim Head of HR role, requires the successful candidate to provide HR support, covering employee relations, engagement, development and recruitment in support of company values and business objectives. This is a 3 month (Inside IR35) contract role that requires an immediate/asap start. The ideal candidate will enjoy a fast paced vibrant environment as well as being data driven, detail-oriented, service-focused, curious and adaptive. To be successful in the role you must be passionate about providing excellent customer service by building partnerships and being responsive to the needs of our teams and leadership.
Key Duties:
- Partner with the broader HR Team to provide strategic and tactical HR support, ensuring alignment with business and corporate direction, strategic initiatives, and human resources best practices. (e.g., talent recruitment, development, and training; engagement; succession planning; performance management; legal/regulatory compliance; compensation, safety and benefit policies and practices).
- Educate, support, and follow up with leaders and managers regarding execution of human resources policies, processes and initiatives, and handling employee relations issues.
- Oversee employee relations investigations, interviews, documentation and follow up, supporting the administration of appropriate follow up.
- Provide day-to-day performance management guidance to leadership and facilitate escalation, as needed.
- Provide operational support to leaders and managers as needed with all human resources related functions.
- Provide data analysis and reporting based on business needs.
- Support in handling HR administrative data transactions and processes in support of the business.
- Administer human resources policies and procedures, with attention to confidentiality, timeliness, privacy, and fairness.
- Establish best practices with HR team to develop and coordinate programme and events.
- Line manage the UK HR team
Key Requirements:
- Proven human resources and partnering experience with a successful track record
- Human resources experience in a manufacturing environment preferred
- Proficient with Microsoft office products, Excel, Word, PowerPoint
- Highly analytical with a demonstrated ability to manage data and metrics to support performance
- Demonstrated knowledge employment law
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation
- Creative, agile, and flexible thinking
- Strong presentation and facilitation skills
- Honest and collaborative team-player with exhibited ability to work independently and flexibility to move between projects in a fast-paced environment
- Self-confident with a strong sense of personal accountability
- Ability to embrace and leverage current and new technology to support the business.
This is a 3 month contract role that requires an immediate/asap start. Hybrid working pattern available