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Head of HR
Position Details
- Duration: 24 months
- Location: Barrow-in-Furness
- Hours: 37 hours a week
- Work Schedule: 4 days on site, 1 day at home
About the Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work for a client within the Oil & Gas Sector. The Head of HR role works closely with and provides coaching to managers to build their people capability, plan and manage talent and develop approaches that achieve shared organisational objectives acting as a point of people expertise for the organisation.
Key Duties
- Provide strategic and expert HR advice to business leadership, challenging and questioning as appropriate, acting as employee advocate when required, to get to the root of people and business issues.
- Support the organisation with employee relations activities ensuring all actions taken are within policy, best practice and legal guidelines. Ensuring decisions made support the Values, culture and strategic priorities of the business. Conducts effective, thorough, and objective investigations.
- Lead HR annual programs and initiatives, such as Annual Reward Review, performance reviews, reward or payroll communications, etc.
- Coordinate internal and external resourcing, working with service providers and agencies, following an agreed process and approach. Contract owner for external resourcing contracts.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance. Partners with external parties as needed/required.
- Provide HR policy guidance and ensures compliance.
- Manage relationships with benefit providers and work with the benefits broker on annual renewals etc.
- Drive a high performing culture by identifying and addressing performance differentiation. This includes supporting the business to drive the performance management cycle, facilitating performance calibration, and pro-actively addressing under-performance throughout the year by providing day-to-day performance management guidance and support to managers.
- Provides guidance and input on business change and workforce planning. Supports discussions and drives action on talent management and succession planning.
- Work with the Finance team, supporting the annual and monthly finance processes in SAP including PR/POs and budgeting.
- Support audit requirements as appropriate.
- Any other associated duties as reasonably required.
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Technical Skills Required
- HR Technical Knowledge: Depth and breadth of experience and understanding of a number of HR disciplines including Reward, Employee Relations, Business Partnering/Relationship Management, HR Operations, Resourcing, Learning & Development.
- Maintains knowledge of legal and regulatory requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing risks and ensuring compliance.
- Commercial acumen: Exhibits an understanding of the organisation’s business model with the acumen and commerciality that enables delivering HR solutions to people challenges.
- Proven ability to make decisions or proposals based on gathering information from a variety of sources, understanding the breadth of solutions, and ability to critically assess each.
- Demonstrate knowledge of current best practices and trends in HR best practice, across the industry and more broadly within the profession.
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Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters degree, or equivalent, in an appropriate discipline
- CIPD qualification preferred
Morson is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy.
Relevant Experience Areas
- Human Resources; HRBP; CIPD; HR Generalist; ER; Employment Relations; Employee Relations; Employer Relations; Coaching; Resource Planning; Trade Unions; Stakeholder management; People development; Talent Management; Succession Planning; HR Policies; Change Management; Mediation; HR Advisor; HR Specialist; Employment Law; People Management; Learning and Development; Capability Development; Early Careers; Head of HR; HR Director
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Skills
Strategic HR Advice
Employee Relations
Talent Management
Succession Planning
Reward Management
Resourcing
Employment Law
Performance Management
Workforce Planning
Stakeholder Management
Change Management
Coaching
HR Policy Guidance
Budgeting
SAP
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