HR Lead
Job summary
This role gives the group its HR backbone. Supporting the Head of People & Experience, you will lead the technical core of the function: hiring excellent people, establishing governance and compliance, building a compensation framework, and introducing performance management that helps people grow.
Job descriptions & requirements
Responsibilities:
- Lead recruitment end to end: workforce planning with entity heads, role design, sourcing, assessment, offers and onboarding.
- Run one induction and employment standard across every entity, so that each new colleague understands the group as well as their own role.
- Establish HR governance and ensure compliance with employment law in each jurisdiction, including contracts for consultants and international representatives.
- Develop a compensation and benefits framework with clear grades and pay principles, in partnership with Finance.
- Design and run the performance management cycle, linking individual objectives to entity and group priorities.
- Write, update and communicate HR policies, the employee handbook, and a current set of job descriptions and organisation charts.
- Build structured handover and exit processes that keep institutional knowledge inside the organisation.
- Implement people systems: an HR information system, accurate employee records, and leave and payroll inputs.
- Embed recruitment triggers in entity workplans, so that hiring follows the growth of the business.
Requirements:
- Substantial HR generalist experience with real depth in recruitment, compliance and reward; a professional qualification (CIPD, CIPM, SHRM or equivalent) is preferred.
- Experience of building HR practices in a growing organisation, ideally across more than one entity or country.
- Sound knowledge of employment law and good instincts for when to seek specialist advice.
- Fairness, discretion and the confidence to hold managers to agreed standards.
- A talent for spotting people who will thrive in a business that is still being built.
What success looks like in your first 12 months:
- Priority roles across the group are filled with strong candidates through a rigorous, well-run process.
- Every employee, consultant and representative has a compliant contract, a clear role and a complete record.
- A compensation framework is approved and applied consistently across entities.
- A full performance cycle has been completed and managers regard it as useful.
- When someone leaves, their work, files and relationships are handed over in full.
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