Group HR Manager | Permanent | Watford | £75k|
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Group HR Manager to join a dynamic, multi-sector organisation operating across the UK, Europe, New Zealand, and the USA.
This is a pivotal role, responsible for leading the HR function, partnering with senior leadership, and ensuring HR operations align with business objectives, legal requirements, and best practice. The successful candidate will drive the development and implementation of modern HR strategies, systems, and processes to support a high-performance culture.
My client is an organisation that operates a group of businesses that provide a range of services across the professional broadcast, live events, esports, corporate, government, and content services sectors. Its operations include equipment sales, equipment rental, systems integration, cine equipment rental, and library migration and content services.
This crucial role oversees daily HR operations, leads the HR team, and works closely with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to ensure people-related initiatives align with business objectives, legal requirements, and best practices.
With a focus on designing, developing, and implementing a modern, integrated, and practical HR strategy, the Group HR Manager will drive the transformation and continuous improvement of HR systems, policies, and processes. The role plays a key part in fostering a high-performance culture while managing HR activities such as onboarding and offboarding, employee relations, contractual changes, internal communications, payroll support, and policy development.
The Benefits and Perks Package: Company Pension, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Private Health Cover, Onsite Parking,
The Basics:
Group HR Manager - Office based/ 1 day remote
Salary £75k
Mon Fri 9am -6pm
The Responsibilities:
HR Business Partnering:
Partner with business leaders to align HR strategies with organisational goals and the Groups overall vision.
Act as a trusted advisor to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), contributing to strategic decision-making from a people perspective.
Provide expert HR leadership, coaching, and guidance to managers across all levels to strengthen people management capabilities.
Represent the HR function internally and externally with professionalism, consistency, and credibility.
Drive the HR agenda by embedding a culture of excellence, accountability, and professionalism.
Coach and train business leaders on their role in delivering the HR agenda to enable business performance.
Evaluate the challenges faced by the business and take appropriate action to mitigate risks and develop opportunities.
Act as a vital member of the Senior Leadership Team, being valued as a trusted advisor.
Provide strong HR Leadership support, advice, and guidance.
Develop and continuously monitor HR policies and procedures to support the culture, reflect legislative changes, and drive performance.
Ensure legal compliance is met in all HR activities.
Champion and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement and quality.
Lead on employee relations across the business ensuring the HR team are supporting and guiding the business through best practice.
Lead on complex employee relation issues and cases.
Take a lead on legal and employee relations advisory delivery ensuring that appropriate systems for establishing, monitoring, and evaluating quality standards are in place, taking proactive measures, where appropriate, to ensure standards are maintained.
Support the business with key succession management, planning, and talent development to ensure that we have a strong bench and unique successor pool.
Oversee recruitment across the business ensuring consistency in process.
Responsible for the employee experience across the organisation, plotting the employee experience journey and enabling engagement and performance.
Accountable for overseeing the design and use of regular staff surveys and other engagement tools to continuously promote staff engagement and cultural changes.
Performance Management:
Ownership of the annual performance management, goals, pay review, and bonus cycle.
Identify training needs across business and develop training solutions as required.
Lead, inspire, coach, and develop the HR team member, ensuring high levels of professionalism at all times.
Carry out performance reviews for the team, ensuring business goals are clearly communicated and linked to objectives. In doing so, review training and development of all staff, so all staff have the support in reaching their full potential as identified through the appraisal process.
Engage the team to perform at their best, connecting them with wider priorities and organisation vision.
Payroll:
Full responsibility for ensuring payroll practices are suitable and fit for purpose for each business/division.
Ensure payroll is processed by the team with zero errors and issues.
Resolve/deal with complex payroll queries that cannot be resolved by the team.
Co-ordinate remuneration policies for compensation and benefits; advise senior management and the Board on employee salaries, benefits and bonus payments (in partnership with the Finance Team) in reference to external benchmarks.
The Skills & Requirements:
Degree and/or CIPD qualified.
Experience of managing a HR team in a fast-paced complex environment.
Track record in providing leadership in collaborative roles and building strong working relationships with multiple stakeholders at a senior level.
Able to demonstrate problem-solving capabilities.
Well-developed organisation skills and to be proactive, with a proven ability to prioritise workload in a fast-moving environment.
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to work collaboratively with a diverse range of people and organisations to build trust at all levels.
Leadership skills with the ability to demonstrate emotional intelligence and coach, motivate, and engage staff to achieve business targets.
Experience of managing projects and seeing successful delivery of these through coordination via multi-disciplinary teams.
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