William Grant & Sons
HR Administration Team Leader
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We’re looking for an experienced and forward-thinking HR Administration Team Leader to join our HR Operations team. This is a unique opportunity to grow and shape a high-performing HR Administration team from the ground up, playing a key role in defining how HR services are delivered across the business. You’ll lead the delivery of high-quality, efficient and compliant HR services across the employee lifecycle, while driving operational excellence, data integrity and continuous improvement. You’ll also play a key role in supporting our transition to SuccessFactors, helping to embed new, streamlined ways of working across HR Operations.
If you’re passionate about creating structure, embedding best practice and building a strong team culture, this is a role where you can make a real impact.
What you'll be doing
- Leading end-to-end HR administration across the employee lifecycle (from onboarding through to leaving), ensuring accuracy, quality and SLA delivery
- Building the HR Administration team, including shaping roles, ways of working and service standards
- Creating a high-performing, customer-focused team culture, with clear KPIs and performance expectations
- Overseeing the production of employment documentation, ensuring it is compliant, consistent and audit-ready
- Driving high standards of HR data quality and integrity, working closely with HR Systems to improve processes and workflows
- Ensuring compliance with employment legislation, internal policy and data protection requirements
- Acting as the escalation point for complex lifecycle queries and cases
- Partnering with HR colleagues globally to balance standardisation with in-country requirements
- Identifying and delivering continuous improvement initiatives to enhance service and employee experience.
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- Proven experience in HR Operations or HR Administration leadership
- Experience of building, shaping or transforming teams and services (highly desirable)
- Strong knowledge of the end-to-end employee lifecycle
- A track record of driving process improvement and operational excellence
- Experience managing HR data, systems and reporting with a focus on accuracy and control
- Good understanding of employment legislation and compliance requirements
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships
- A collaborative and proactive leader with a passion for developing people and improving service delivery
- Working knowledge of an HCM System (Success Factors, Workday, Oracle, UKG, Dayforce)
What we can offer you
- We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
- Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
- Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
- Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
- Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
- Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
- Learning resources to help you be your best self.
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