HR Manager

**HR Manager - Maternity Cover**

Our client is Europe's leading corrugated packaging company and one of the leading paper-based packaging companies in the world - an industry leader with 46,000 employees globally, 350 production sites around the world, with locations in 23 countries inEurope and 13 countries in the Americas.

This Company is
- Open to considering flexible working, such as part-time hours, hybrid working and other flexible options.
- Happy to offer a wide range of Family Friendly policies including emergency time off for dependants and to provide generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave provisions for their valued colleagues.

Location is flexible due to the need for regular travel to sites in Aldershot, Lowestoft and Peterborough, however the south east area would be ideal. This would be a hybrid role with some home-working and regular attendance at sites.

**Accountabilities include**:
Build strong relationships with key business partners, establish clear accountabilities and ensure that value adding HR activities are delivered, operating as a member of the site leadership team.

Work with other members of the site leadership team to develop and implement HR strategies to support the delivery of the site’s plans.

Work with and support the site teams to ensure local processes such as sickness absence monitoring, internal recruitment, training processes and payroll are managed efficiently.

Support the local Leadership teams with their on-site Trade Union and Consultation Forum meetings to ensure healthy communication and an on-going partnership approach between the business and all colleagues.

Provide statistical and other information such as overtime, absence, headcount to site stakeholders to ensure risk areas are identified and to track site performance.

Ensure the business can attract, motivate, develop and retain great talent, through effective resourcing, training & development, performance management and reward strategies within the operating company.

Specifically:

- Oversee resourcing for the areas to ensure “best person for role” is achieved
- Work closely with new recruits to ensure that they are effectively integrated into the business and that their development potential is maximised
- Establish appropriate training plans for each area supported and ensure effective delivery
- Drive on-going discussions on organisation and people (talent) to ensure short and medium term succession/capability issues are addressed, and a talent pipeline is in place within the operating company and as an input to the UK’s talent pipeline

Ensure the individual and collective relationships between the business and its people are healthy, open and collaborative through appropriate communication strategies and management behaviour.

Champion the development of a positive high performing culture using Open Leadership as the primary tool.

Develop relationships and ways of working with the wider UK HR team to develop a best practice approach towards Resourcing, Engagement, Communication and L&D. Using agreed external services providers ensure an added value HR service/agenda is delivered acrossall client groups on site.

Act as a coach and source of advice on performance management and individual/team development. Championing individual and team effectiveness via 121s and team meetings.

Implement country wide initiatives in areas such as organisation development, reward, and talent management to support all of the above.

Champion and implement people management processes across client groups (including: Potential Review, PDR, 360 feedback, etc), ensuring a consistent delivery of processes/activities.

Manage organisational change programmes (including re-organisations) in line with best practice (internal/external benchmarks), complying with legal requirements and in line with our company values. Ensuring that new appointments/movers/leavers are set upand announced in a professional and timely fashion.

**Experience/Skills/Knowledge**
- Considerable HR “business partnering” experience and breadth of insight especially around talent management
- Experience in a multi-site role
- Experience of operating in a unionised environment ideally in manufacturing
- A strong track record in delivering business change
- Customer focus with strong interpersonal and influencing skills
- Ability to thrive in a challenging environment
- Skills to identify necessary development activities
- Drive, integrity and courage
- Coaching and facilitation skills
- Great organising skills and ability to act on own initiative
- Flexibility and open-mindedness - enjoying ambiguity and change
- Strong accountability & drive to deliver
- Graduate calibre
- Used to operating across a broad spectrum of generalist activities and flexible in getting the job done
- Clean driving licence and able to regularly visit sites with overnight stays as required.

**In return, our client offers**:
Performance related bonus
Company car
33 total days holiday per year including bank holidays
Laptop and mobile
Company Pension

Closing date: 13th February 2023