Head of HR

5 months ago


Welham Green, United Kingdom Motus Truck & Van - Mercedes-Benz Full time

This is an incredible opportunity for a **Head of HR **to join us here at Motus Truck & Van.

To drive the implementation of HR Strategy for Motus Truck & Van through cultural transformation to ensure the commercial aims of the business are achieved. This strategy will aim to make Motus Truck & Van an employer of choice by creating an environment which delivers high levels of employee engagement. The role will be responsible for all elements of the HR portfolio: overall strategy & direction, employee relations, reward, transactional excellence, policy, resourcing, training and development.

**Key Accountabilities**

1. Own the HR Strategy for Motus Truck & Van

2. Drive and lead Motus Truck & Van core values

3. Create the direction to deliver the implementation of specific initiatives, projects, procedures and guidelines to help align the workforce with the strategic goals of the organisation

4. Be a member of the Motus Truck & Van leadership team, supporting and coaching each Director on any HR topic as well as taking responsibility for all HR actions to support this senior team

5. Create and lead the change management processes, becoming the reference point for the HR team, for example providing guidance on the people workstreams for implementing new business, including advising on matters such as TUPE, employment law and restructuring exercises

6. Ensure a successful annual employee engagement and culture survey for 100% of the employees takes place ensuring action plans are developed and followed through to ensure employee engagement is progressing

8. Manage the HR Team to ensure all employees are on-boarded consistently and effectively

9. Ensure reward is optimised consistently across the company to ensure the company best reflect the market conditions to allow us to recruit and retain our people effectively as well as motivating high performance and the right behaviours

10. Develop direction to ensure that all transactional processes used within the HR function are consistent and optimised so that employee data (such as pay data) is accurate and timely

11. Be the reference point to provide expertise and support in all employee relations cases

12. Take responsibility to ensure accurate and appropriate HR data is provided to create insight and support strategic decisions as needed

13. Drive timely management of absence utilising occupational health where appropriate

14. Provide direction and process to ensure 100% of employees have engaging and effective performance management interventions, at least receiving a PDR every 12 months from their direct line manager

15. Drive the division’s Apprenticeship recruitment and development programme ensuring the best possible future pipeline of talent exists

16. Create and drive an annual training programme across the division optimising training across the business to ensure appropriate and engaging content is driving the right performance and behaviours output as well as ensuring all OEM mandatory training requirements are met without exception

17. Develop a robust talent programme to deliver strong succession planning interventions across the business to ensure there is a strong pipeline of talent in the managerial populations

18. Be the reference point to act as a coach and mentor to the senior teams in how to deal effectively with both conduct and capability issues

**Skills**
- Experienced Senior HR Manager/Head of HR ideally within the automotive sector
- Strong leader with the ability and experience of creating cultural transformation
- Strong team player
- Very strong relationship building, negotiation and influencing skills
- Someone that others will trust with sensitive data and information
- Strong & courageous, especially when standing up for what is right
- Inquisitive, operating with an open mind
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to operate at all levels of the organisation
- Intellectually strong, ability to absorb and assess a situation quickly drawing the appropriate conclusions
- Balanced & emotionally resilient to be able to drive change despite setbacks and challenges
- Strong IT and data skills
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Extensive knowledge of how the business works and understanding of the commercial environment the business operates in
- Ability to display empathy and sensitivity towards people
- Ability to deliver and receive criticism in an open and clear way

**Experience and Qualifications**

**Team and Stakeholders**

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