HR Director (Change Management)

Job description / Role

As a member of the Executive Management Team, your role is to support the Group CEO in all human resources activities in order to help transition the business into a high performance commercial entity able to achieve sustainable strong growth.

In addition to delivering the strategic and operational imperatives to support the transition strategy, day to day responsibilities will include management of the all day to day human resources needs including, but not limited to HR policy, recruitment and performance management.

Key responsibilities:
- Act as the face of HR for the company
- Responsible for senior level decision making and both day to day management and strategic direction of the organisation
- Develop and implement an annual agenda for HR strategy in line with the business plan. Ensure HR plans support the needs of the business but are also flexible enough to cope with changes in the organisation, as and when they occur
- Provide information and reports on data such as staff turnover, references, cost per hire, training hours per person, etc.
- Conduct training needs analysis and designs and implement a training plan with input from business heads. Manage costs to budget.
- Design and implement a performance management system
- Lead all recruitment in support of business heads and senior management
- Ensure all functions have complete Job Descriptions
- Assist senior management in all aspects of organisation design work, including but not limited to the grading of each job function across the business
- Deal with any performance or grievance issues in a legally compliant and professional way
- Monitor sickness absence.
- Ensure all policies and procedures are up to date and legally compliant.
- Provide day to day advice to line managers on all human resource issues: management of staff, remuneration, etc.
- Review all staff salaries and make recommendations for any alterations with business heads
- Maintain a succession plan for all departments
- Involvement in all redundancy consultations
- Ensure payroll is completed accurately and to deadline
- Conduct occupational health referrals and providing pastoral support and advice to employees
- Line management responsibility for the Administration function of the company

- Appropriate HR accredited qualifications
- 10 years management experience
- At least 5 years experience in working for an international company with subsidiaries in different countries/geographies
- High level of inter-personal, analytical and communication skills
- Ability to think laterally and adapt to changing circumstances in a dynamic environment
- Previous experience of managing an Human Resources team
- Proven experience in the successful implementation of change management
- An understanding of how to build a high performance culture and derive exceptional results from staff
- Previously influenced senior managers, built strong commercial relationships and driven an HR strategy
- Must be comfortable working in a standalone environment
- Can quickly establish credibility and respect and build strong working relationships with department managers. Demonstrable maturity, professionalism and gravitas
- Ability to recognise the value and responsibility of working in a team, actively supports and develops team members, quick to identify and problem solve any issues
- Act as a role model for the organisation looks beyond own team as a role model and source of knowledge. Works with others in a collaborative and solutions focused manner to achieve win-win outcomes
- Able to work to deadlines and adapt to changing conditions ability to generate effective and pragmatic solutions to new situations and problems as they are presented
- Demonstrate an understanding of personalities and behavioural styles in order to work collaboratively with a variety of people and cultures in order to make informed decisions around resourcing, reporting structures and relationships
- The ability to inspire confidence of the GCEO and other senior managers through timely delivery of information and plans. Works independently of GCEO, but consults where appropriate
- Strong working knowledge of employment law issues and the ability to apply these to a variety of situations using a pragmatic and common sense approach
- Familiar with best practice redundancy processes and experienced in coaching managers through this and leading where necessary.
- Commercial acumen - has a good overall understanding of company finances and uses this information to push back and support managers in resource and succession planning
- Able to problem solve both operational and strategic issues through a pragmatic and commercially sound approach

About the Company

The McNair Partnership is a specialist executive search firm providing a range of recruitment solutions to global industry. Using traditional and proprietary search methods, our team of recruitment experts have unrivalled market intelligence across a variety of industry sectors. We have successfully searched and recruited top-tier candidates for jobs in Financial Services, Energy, Construction, hospitality and General Commerce throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, over the last 21 years.

We are the trusted recruitment partners of some of the most successful businesses and brands, large and small, delivering effective search, selection, and Interim services.