Reporting to the Director of Human Resources, and as a member of the HR Senior Leadership Team, this role is strategically responsible for leading a first class pay, reward and HR operations service across the University of Northampton. The post holder and their team will heavily influence, at a strategic level, the Universitys senior leaders on reward and recognition thinking, showing how reward and recognition schemes and vehicles can have a demonstratively positive impact on employee morale. This key leadership role is also responsible for providing exemplary administrative and first-line HR operations services such as payroll, pensions and reward processing, HR handbook / contract of employment enquiry management, job-changer and job-leaver process management, as well as people development administration management. With experience in critical data analysis, the Head of Pay, Reward & HR Operations will provide meaningful people data, for the HR Business Partnering, HR Policy & Wellbeing teams, and all UON leaders, in such a way that it turns data into useful dashboards and meaningful management information, for these internal customers, so that they can consider and understand what this data is suggesting and, potentially, what needs to change to make UON a better place to work. A detailed, yet strategic, brain is required for this role. The post holder will be an experienced and competent leader themselves, able to inspire and give confidence to a team whose roles can be stressful. They will create an environment where their people are supported but driven to embody service excellence and behave in a way that always embraces the Universitys values and behaviours. As a senior HR practitioner, they will be tuned into current and evolving HR practice at large.
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