Head of Talent/hr

4 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Black Sun Plc Full time

**Why this job?**

Over the last few years, Black Sun has invested heavily into our talent agenda, including building a highly functional HR team (or “Talent Team” as we like to call ourselves) and we are now recruiting for a driven and dynamic Head of talent/HR with a strong generalist background to take our talent activities to the next level. Reporting into the CEO, our Head of Talent/HR will work closely with the CEO to set our people strategy and ensure that all talent activities support the strategic direction of the business and drive towards attracting, developing and retaining top talent.

Our new Head of Talent/HR will need to be comfortable with a hands-on role whilst developing and, through the Talent team, driving to execution the full spectrum of ‘talent activities’. They will also need to be comfortable with and capable of challenging the organisation and coming up with new ideas along the way.

We are looking for a natural and charismatic leader, who is excited about managing, developing and mentoring the team.

We will expect you to use your creative style and innovative approach to do things differently whilst keeping our culture and values alive. It is essential that you have a strong empathy with our corporate purpose and understand and buy into our proposition, share our valuesand have a great sense of humour

**Key responsibilities**

**Planning**
- Working with the Talent team to develop annual Group Talent Plan to deliver on our talent acquisition, retention and development goals
- Inspire and lead your team to deliver on agreed actions from the Talent plan globally
- Feedback to the Board on your team’s progress and performance against the plan and talent KPIs and performance metrics
- Working with leadership on the proposition and strategy for the new Positive Change Group talent team
- Providing support and guidance to partner businesses within the Positive Change Group as needed

**Talent Attraction**
- Work closely with the Talent Acquisition Manager to ensure we are able to attract and hire the very best talent for Black Sun who share our values and buy into our goals, globally
- Bring our EVP to life internally and externally effectively communicating our it through all channels
- including the likes of Glassdoor and the Black Sun career’s site

**On-boarding**
- Through the Talent team, manage the whole new employee on-boarding process and oversee the Talent team in making offers, contract negotiations, paperwork and employment contracts, through to the implementation of our on-boarding and induction programmes
- Complete 1 month probation reviews with all new joiners, feeding insights back into the business and acting on any issues or concerns
- Manage the end of the probation review process with Managers/Senior Management
- Where required, take the lead on managing probation extensions, liaising with agencies on rebate extensions, or terminating employment

**Performance management**
- Work closely with the Talent Development Advisor to plan, develop and implement all talent development, training and career development activities across the business
- Lead the annual performance review process, having responsibility for ensuring all employee reviews are completed in a timely manner and employee goals are relevant
- Work with the Senior Management team to develop succession plans for key/top employees

**Employee Engagement and Communication**
- Have overall responsibility for the ongoing development of, and engagement with, “Halo” (Black Sun’s internal communications hub), ensuring fresh content and full company engagement
- Implement Black Sun’s annual communications and social programmes for the business
- Manage and evolve the range of initiatives to receive ongoing feedback from the business including our annual Employee Engagement Survey, employee catch-ups, and exit interviews, feeding all insights back into the business and taking remedial action on identified concerns or problems
- Work with the CEO and Senior Management team to implement the annual pay & promotion reviews for all employees, benchmarking salaries and benefits where required

**Legal and Compliance**
- Be the company’s ‘guardian’ ensuring that internal processes are fit for purpose and all activities and initiatives within the business are in line with legal and best practices
- Have overall responsibility for ensuring employee records are maintained at all times. This includes maintaining Black Sun’s HRIS, BambooHR
- Maintain key internal documents to ensure legal compliance such as the Employee Handbook, templates and employment contracts
- Where required, work with the Senior Management team and other external partners/ organisations on employee relations matters ensuring that all actions taken by Black Sun remain legally compliant and safeguard the business
- Work with the Finance team to implement the monthly payroll

**House**
- Overall responsibility for the upkeep


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