Head of HR
Contract: Ringway Jacobs
Location: Chelmsford
Contract Type: Permanent
As part of Ringway Jacobs Senior Leadership Team, the Head of HR is responsible for shaping and delivering people strategies across the business. By partnering with senior leaders, you will drive impactful pragmatic HR initiatives whilst leading a well-established people function.
Acting as a trusted advisor, with confidence to speak truth to power, this is a broad role that operates in an environment with high autonomy and trust and balances strategic thinking with day-to-day delivery of practical and commercially focused solutions.
The Role
What you will be responsible for:
* Leading and developing a well-established HR team.
* Developing and implementing people strategies that align with business priorities and reflect our visions and values.
* Partnering with senior leaders to ensure fairness, inclusion and respect is at the heart of business decisions and supports a culture of growth, honesty and flexibility.
* Ensuring compliance with UK legislation, development of streamlined processes and procedures and implementation of best practice.
* Advising on complex employee relations matters including TUPE, redundancy, organisational design and change management.
* Designing and developing management learning materials to upskill new and existing managers to ensure fairness and consistency and role model our ABC of leadership.
* Providing advice and support regarding the recruitment, development and retention of key roles across the business, succession planning and talent management.
* Developing and maintaining strong working relationships across the business to ensure a collaborative approach to business solutions is adopted and maintained.
About You
This role will be a good fit for you if you:
* Have a proven track record as a generalist HR practitioner at a senior level.
* Are confident, resilient and comfortable working with senior stakeholders.
* Work with a proactive and pragmatic approach that values ‘real world’ experience over theory.
* Demonstrate commercial awareness.
* Are a self-starter with a people focused mind-set who enjoys seeing others grow and develop.
* Can demonstrate broad technical competence in all aspects of employment law, compliance practices and policies.
* Build rapport quickly by balancing honesty and flexibility to find common ground.
* Champion collaboration to achieve the best solutions for the business.
* Are comfortable with a ‘hands on’ practical approach as well as working strategically.
* Are CIPD qualified (Chartered desirable)
Benefits
At Ringway Jacobs we recognise that our people make the difference, and in order to do what we do well, particular care is taken in nurturing and investing in our people. That’s why you will always be given the opportunity to utilise your expertise and develop your career.
Ringway Jacobs recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles. We therefore welcome applications from people looking for an alternative working pattern e.g. part-time hours, job share etc. Please let us know on your CV or cover letter if this is what you are looking for.
In return for your hard work you will receive:
* Sick Pay
* Competitive salary
* Opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave
* A variety of discounts through our “RJ Rewards” app, including restaurants, holidays, days out etc
* Life Assurance
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Pension scheme
The Company
We are Ringway Jacobs, a leading highways service provider working with local authorities across the UK. Formed in 2005, specifically to provide road network management solutions to local government, our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care make us the best in class. We support over 10,000 miles of highways, 10,000 miles of footway, almost 7,800 miles of public rights of way and 242,000 street lights. We excel in delivering safe, sustainable service excellence, through our passion, integrity and collaborative culture.
Ringway Jacobs is an equal opportunities employer. We wish to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all our employees.
If you require further details, please contact our Recruitment Team on 0330 311 2502 or e-mail them on careers@ringwayjacobs.com, or click on the “Apply Now” button. This will take you to a login page, where you will need to create an account to continue your application. Once you have created an account you will be able to see where your application is up to and apply for other opportunities within Ringway Jacobs.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.
We have a dedicated recruitment team and politely request that agencies refrain from contacting anyone across our businesses with regards to speculative CV’s or offering to assist with our vacancies, thank you.
Please click on the following link for more information on this role: Job Description