Exciting job opportunity to work for a established company based in Wembley

Job Specification

Job Title:         People and Culture Manager

Based:             Head Office in Wembley

Reporting to:   Strategic Director 

Hours:             45 hours per week

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing company as a People and Culture. Manager, Reporting to the People and Culture Director. The successful candidate will form part of Senior Leadership team working with other leaders to drive the company’s business objectives and company values. You will support the management and operations team(s) from a people management perspective. You will be responsible for delivering best practise people policies and initiatives using a pragmatic and commercial approach. You will bring innovation and leadership and ensure a high-performance culture within the business.

Role and Responsibilities:

To manage a team consisting of a People and Culture Generalist, ER Assistant, People Assistant and Recruitment Assistant. The role has overall responsibility for the People and Culture department and will need to performance manage, coach, mentor and develop the People and Culture team to ensure that an excellent People service is always delivered to the business.

Build strong collaborative relationships with internal & external stakeholders

Continual review and improvement on the delivery of People processes, practices, policies and procedures

Manage and overall responsibility for the People Team department budget

Driving and developing the company Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategy

Ensure Operations are aware of the implications and effects of any proposed change both in employment law and with respect to company People policies and procedures.

Support current and future business needs through the development, engagement, motivation and preservation of our colleagues

Work with People team, Senior Leadership Team and Operation(s) teams to ensure that our clients are kept informed of any changes (People related) on their contracts (whether planned or unpredicted).

Nurture a positive working environment in line with our culture of diversity and inclusion

Oversee and manage the recruitment and retention process

Accountability for ensuring People compliance with SIA standards/keeping abreast of any changes/developments in legislation.

Advise, lead and deliver on change programmes such as reorganisations, redundancies, restructures, TUPE (on boarding mobilisation, de mobilisation) etc

People lead on prestigious and/or complex contacts/sites

Lead/support on high risk ER cases

Ensure the People team are supporting the business with poor performance, misconduct, absence management, probation fails, SIA licence renewals/revokes etc

Guide managers through relevant processes and procedures, and attend/lead meetings with staff as appropriate.

Accountable for dealing/responding to ACAS EC claims, ET claims, negotiating and drafting settlement agreements or advising on other exit strategies

Monitor and develop the annual performance appraisal process – work with managers, the operations teams and the Training Manager to ensure PDP’s are mapped out/delivered/sourcing appropriate support

Support the business with developing our Training Strategy

Support the business with developing succession planning and talent management

To keep abreast of changes in employment legislation and advice as appropriate

Guide and support People team members with their work and activities and their continued professional development

Actively involved in our Tender process. Attend presentations to showcase our people processes.

Person Specification

• Excellent communicate skills to engage prospective clients
• Experience in delivering presentations
• Possess excellent leadership and motivational skills in order to create a high performing team.
• Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative, often in challenging situations, as well as being a collaborative team player who will support colleagues.
• Previous experience working in a senior People position such as a HR Manager, People Partner/ HRBP, Head of People
• CIPD qualified (level 5 or above)- desirable
• Strong employment legislation knowledge
• Experience of handling varied and complex ER casework.
• Strong TUPE experience
• Recruitment experience
• Working in the services industry (security, cleaning, hospitality, front of house) – desirable.Create and deliver training for our people processes.