Senior HR Manager
- Recruiter
- Lewis Bear Recruitment
- Location
- London (City of), London (Greater)
- Salary
- £70,000 - £75,000
- Posted
- 22 Mar 2017
- Closes
- 19 Apr 2017
- Job Title
- Human Resources
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Our client, a global international law firm have an opportunity for an experienced Senior HR Manager to join this forward thinking HR team, supporting Corporate Practice Groups.
Overview:
Play a lead role in the development and implementation of commercial HR solutions to support the firm and divisional strategy from a strategic and operation perspective. This role in particular will support the Corporate Division mostly based in London but with responsibility for the offices in the Middle East and some Divisional reporting responsibility across Europe and the US. In total, the population is between 380 and 400.
Working closely with the Senior HR Manager, Finance Lead, manage a HR Advisor. Work closely with the Office Manager in the Middle East on people related topics.
It is anticipated that the contract will be between nine and 12 months long.
Areas of focus:
Client
· Act as a change manager and project leader, with the gravitas and credibility to influence at a senior level within the organisation. Participate in management meetings to provide advice, support and where appropriate, challenge. Engender trust when building relationships and act as a coach as appropriate.
· Participate in regular discussions with the Head and others on immediate resourcing and succession planning requirements in order to identify gaps and develop plans to fulfil both short term and long-term requirements.
· As appropriate, validate vacancies with relevant leaders to ensure recruitment is needed and if so, work closely with the resourcing team to complete this information to gain relevant approvals
· Work closely with the wider business to support global mobility and the enhancement of career opportunities through secondments.
· Provide advice and intervention to the business on complex employee relations issues such as disciplinary, grievances etc. Ensure knowledge is fully up to date with all developments in terms of employee legislation and employee relations issues.
· Overall responsibility for the Divisional performance management processes and include, but not limited to managing the annual appraisal process ensuring timely launch of programmes and engagement from all stakeholders as well as on-going feedback and mid year check-ins. Advise and coach on performance and the related issues and challenges. Manage moderation meetings to calibrate performance. Advise and coach leaders on content and structure of messages to be delivered in performance meetings.
· Provide leadership and guidance to ensure the annual pay process is delivered effectively and on time. In particular, facilitate relevant salary and bonus discussions to ensure moderation across the London business maintaining objectivity and fairness; linking compensation decisions to performance; and, ensuring relevant market information is taken into account.
· Work closely with the partners and the resource management function to ensure work allocation processes are effective and fair.
· Focus on talent management and support the assessment and collation of training and development requirements, designing and delivering specific initiatives in conjunction with the L&D team.
· Champion diversity and inclusion in line with firm objectives.
· Work with leaders to improve employee engagement linking in to internal communication initiatives and processes.
· Analyse and present relevant HR data to provide information around latest thinking in the profession / HR Strategy and market intelligence using regular HR reports.
· Assist in the design, co-ordination and facilitation of off-sites and team development programmes.
· Deliver local inductions for new team members.
Team
· Work in close partnership with myHRServices and other specialist areas of ER, Comp and Ben, L&D, Diversity and Trainee Development to co-ordinate the utilisation of appropriate skills, knowledge and strategies.
· Work alongside other HR Business Managers to ensure consistency, sharing of ideas and best practice.
· Build relationships across the wider business including support functions and secretarial population.
· Lead on, or contribute to, projects to develop HR practices and processes.
· Manage one HR Advisor directly and support the development of junior members of the HR team by providing timely feedback and mentoring as appropriate.
· Support the Head of HR with ad hoc projects to deliver the global strategy.
Essential skills and experience:
· Experience in delivering high quality HR support to a sophisticated client base, dealing with senior stakeholders and forging strong relationships at every level.
· "Can do" ethos.
· Confident and resilient and able to offer credible advice.
· Able to move from strategic reviews to hands on operational matters while retaining a high level of personal effectiveness and organisation
· Able to demonstrate depth of commercial understanding of the business.
· CIPD qualified or equivalent.
· Good level of knowledge of UK employment legislation.
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to draft and review formal correspondence.
· Strong negotiation skills with the ability to influence and persuade.
· Strong ability to build and maintain working relationships across all areas of the business.
· Experience of working in a professional services environment, particularly within the accounting profession, would be advantageous.
Travel:
Very little travel will be required for this role apart from an annual trip to the UAE and very occasional travel within the UK if appropriate.