Head of HR - London based, hybrid working
Salary up to 80k plus 10% bonus
HRLife is delighted to be working with an innovative SME – an engineering business with a real passion for sustainability and environmental protection. They’re a collaborative business with a start-up culture and are now looking for a Head of HR to join them on their journey as they continue to grow and develop.
Reporting into the CFO and managing a small HR team, you’ll be responsible for shaping and executing their people initiatives. This will be a broad generalist role; a mix of both strategic and operational HR as you’ll be supporting business leaders with a robust scale-up plan whilst also ensuring all the HR basics are in place and processes are fully streamlined.
Key responsibilities include:
* Develop and implement HR strategies to support the organisation’s goals and objectives, including workforce planning, talent acquisition and employee retention
* Lead all recruitment activities ensuring a best-in-class candidate experience
* Develop, recommend and review competitive reward offerings to attract and retain top talent
* Manage and resolve ER issues
* Lead learning and development initiatives with a particular focus on management development
* Drive succession planning and talent management
* Enhance performance management processes
* Manage the operational aspects of the HR, providing meaningful people data
* Focus on culture and wellbeing, monitoring employee engagement and delivering the annual plan of wellbeing initiatives
This will be ideal for someone who has previous experience working in a small, vibrant business and enjoys a broad generalist role, happy to work strategically whilst also being able to roll up their sleeves and get stuck into some of the detail. You’ll have strong influencing skills and an agile mindset. A commercial HR professional who has a passion for delivering excellence across the full employee lifecycle.
In addition, our client is looking for:
* Degree educated, ideally with CIPD level 7
* Experienced in a similar industry, ideally engineering or tech
* Strong employment law knowledge
* Experience in managing HR projects
* A coaching and mentoring approach
* Emotionally intelligent
London based, hybrid working
Up to £80k plus 10% bonus