Head of Human Resources

3 weeks ago

Cambridge CB WF, United Kingdom The Royal Society of Chemistry Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and innovative Head of People Operations to join our People and Culture function at a pivotal time of transformation. This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape and enhance our key HR specialist services, working closely with the P&C Director to drive positive change across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities
  • Strategic Leadership: Drive the RSC's people strategy and organisational effectiveness, leading the implementation of P&C's transformation initiatives, managing a team of specialist leads across key HR functions.
  • Total Reward Strategy: Oversee the development of a total reward strategy, including compensation, benefits, and pension schemes, ensuring alignment with the organisation's goals.
  • Talent Management: Focus on workforce planning, recruitment, career development, and succession planning, ensuring the organisation has the capabilities to meet its strategic objectives.
  • Learning and Development: Spearhead the organisation's learning and development programs, promoting a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
  • Employee Relations: Foster positive employee relations, lead on complex ER cases, and manage people policy development, ensuring a positive and inclusive work environment.
  • HRIS Implementation: Ensure the successful delivery and adoption of the new HRIS (Workday) implementation, promoting a seamless and efficient HR service.
  • Metrics and Reporting: Establish and track key P&C metrics, providing regular reports and using data to drive decision-making, ensuring the organisation's HR function is aligned with its strategic objectives.
Essential Skills
  • CIPD Qualification: CIPD Level 7 qualified or Level 5 qualification coupled with significant experience of operating at a senior/lead level.
  • HR Operational Knowledge: Extensive HR operational knowledge within relevant legal frameworks, ability to devise innovative solutions to significant and complex HR problems.
  • People Management: Experience of successfully operating as a people manager providing leadership and direction across a range of HR specialist services, aligned with the delivery of strategic people goals.
  • Communication Skills: Excellent negotiation skills and an ability to influence outcomes through reasoning, persuasion and tact.
  • Analytical Skills: High level analytical abilities: able to assimilate and analyse information quickly, identifying issues, priorities and solutions and using effective models, techniques and resources to resolve issues.
  • Continuous Development: Demonstrable continuous development and improvement of own professional practice.
  • Strategic Influence: Proven experience of influencing strategic HR policy direction within a large / complex organisation, ideally with some experience of leading a people function with international colleagues.

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