Chief Peoples Officer

Some responsibilities of the position: Chief Peoples Officer, (HR Director)

Responsibility for the Talent Acquisition function, ensuring the Company can find and on-board suitable new colleagues who will provide long service.

Engage: the jobholder works with management to provide a motivating and engaging environment where committed colleagues can do their best work.

Develop: working with management to provide development opportunities for colleagues is a key deliverable for the jobholder, ensuring colleague performance continuously improves. Introducing initiatives that keep colleagues within the Business, developing their careers in-house rather than leaving.

Lead Day-to-Day People/HR Team Activities

Source, secure and on-board new colleagues through robust and thorough Talent Acquisition processes. Promote and encourage a positive corporate culture in line with the Company’s Cultural Values. Oversee appropriate processes and procedures that assess and feedback colleague job performance.

Provide day to day advice and best practice information to colleagues and management as required. Implement appropriate capability, disciplinary and grievance measures to effectively resolve employee relations issues. Implement and maintain appropriate succession planning activities in agreement with management.

Work with heads of department to devise training and career development plans for their areas. Oversee sourcing and booking of training as approved. Provide management coaching and training as required. Support and input to graduate training scheme content and delivery.

Ensure smooth processing and risk mitigation with any terminations Projects and Continuous Improvement Devise and deliver People/HR projects in pursuit of improving business efficiency and effectiveness.

Own any People/HR-related activities in relation to mergers, acquisitions, TUPE and collective consultations. Establish and maintain appropriate reporting and monitoring techniques to identify performance Classification HR Team against business objectives, and areas where improvement is required.

Degree Educated is expected, with a FCIPD Level or above.