HR Manager (Maternity cover – fixed term contract) Reporting to:
Head of HR, EMEA Location:
Castle Mills, Kendal Main role and responsibilities In general, the HR Manager is expected to: – • Ensure that the organisation is employing the right people, with the right skills and qualifications for the job • Understand how the organisation operates, its business requirements and commercial objectives. You will work very closely with other departments and provide an information resource for both employees and senior management • Manage HR across multiple sites including Kendal, Blackburn, Walton Summit and Hemel Hempstead The HR Manager is expected to carry out/oversee at least the following:- • Employment law – working conditions, disciplinary and grievance procedures, equal opportunities, redundancies, paternity pay and maternity rights. • Recruitment – hiring staff, producing job descriptions, placing adverts, working with recruitment consultancies, organising interviews and running induction seminars. • Training and development – putting together and maintaining a staff training programme and identifying suitable courses for staff. • Salary reviews – researching salaries and ensuring they are in line with legal requirements and industry standards. Maintains a pay plan by conducting periodic pay surveys; scheduling and conducting job evaluations; preparing pay budgets; monitoring and scheduling individual pay actions; recommending, planning, and implementing pay structure revisions • Documentation – writing staff handbooks, contracts, staff memos, and issuing written offers of employment, promotion etc. • Work closely with company lawyers and advisors where necessary • Ensures planning, monitoring, and appraisal of employee work results by training managers to coach and discipline employees; scheduling management conferences with employees; hearing and resolving employee grievances; counselling employees and supervisors. • Maintains employee benefits programs and informs employees of benefits by studying and assessing benefit needs and trends; recommending benefit programs to management; directing the processing of benefit claims; obtaining and evaluating benefit contract bids; awarding benefit contracts; designing and conducting educational programs on benefit programs. • Ensures legal compliance by monitoring and implementing applicable human resource federal and state requirements; conducting investigations; maintaining records; representing the organization at hearings • Maintains historical human resource records by designing a filing and retrieval system; keeping past and current records. • Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies. • Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed. • Absence and Capability- Supporting and coaching managers through differing people challenges to ensure the best outcome is achieved. Oversight of all ‘long term’ absences and attend and support care meetings as appropriate • Manages, leads or contributes to HR projects • HR Analytics- Maintain and analyse key HR data metrics, identifying key areas for improvement • Managing the payroll function, processing payroll during holiday cover and authorising payrolls as necessary • Assisting the Ireland based HR Manager with advice and support where necessary Skills and Abilities • Fantastic written and verbal communication skills • Ability to organise own workload and use initiative • Confident under pressure and able to handle multifaceted objectives • High level of organisation • Efficient with thorough methods of working • Must be willing and able to travel between sites Experience • Minimum 3 years HR Management experience • Experience in managing people • Experience in processing payroll • Experience of Irish employment law desired but not essential Training and Qualifications • CIPD level 5 or above
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