Key Responsibilities: Relationships * Be a connection and channel between management teams and employees. * Build strong stakeholder relationships with senior management across the UK * Build effective communication between UK branches and HQ in China relating to HR aspects. * Provide clear guidance and support across a range of HR issues including employment law, HR best practice and analysis of key metric data. * Coach and influence discussions with designated business areas on organisational design to support business strategies, demonstrating vision and best practice, whilst ensuring compliance with policy and procedure. Change Management * Support and influence the key stages of organisational change ensuring a consistent approach across all business areas, providing clear communication on the reasons for change to all stakeholders. * Act as the performance improvement driver and create positive changes in people management, in the long, medium and short term. * Share responsibility within the HR Division for developing the HR strategy and HR policies and ensure that they represent leading-edge HR practice, improve organisational effectiveness, facilitate change and effect employee engagement. * Interpret and implement HQ HR policy and process changes. People Advocacy * Proactively support and embed the delivery of Succession Planning and leadership development. Ensure robust plans are in place and reviewed regularly. * Take responsibility for raising the awareness of engagement and driving the implementation of employee engagement initiatives. * Responsible for contributing to the generation of an environment of trust and fairness. People Development * Coach line managers on leadership behaviours and ensure that individual and group development plans exist to close any gaps. * Act as a coach to individual managers and teams to ensure leadership behaviour is aligned to company’s values; enabling leaders and senior managers to deal successfully with people management issues, develop their capability in effective performance management, employee engagement, talent development and retention. Transactional Expertise * Advise and support managers on ER cases e.g. disciplinaries, grievances, absence management and performance management. * Work with our legal team to ensure the site is compliant across employment law and legislation. * Use and manage multiple HR systems to aid daily HR operations. Person Specification: Required: * Knowledge of UK Employment Law and Agency Worker Regulations. * Supporting multiple stakeholders including Senior Leaders. * Experience with delivering strategic tasks * Experience with culture change management Desired: * Language skills: Predominately English, however candidates that can also speak Mandarin, would be of great interest