Job title            HR Manager

Location            Halifax (HX2)
 
Hours of work  Mon-Fri 9am – 5.30pm (flexible start and finish times)
contracted 37.5 hours per week
 
Salary                Up to £42,000 per annum - depending on skills and experience
 
Our client is one of the UK’s leading manufacturers and distributors of bathroom products.

The business owns established operations in the UK (Bolton, Halifax and Colchester), China (Shanghai) and the UAE (Fujairah/Dubai) employing over 400 people across 5 sites with an annual turnover of £90m+.


 
Role Requirements
 
The HR Manager, reporting to the CEO is a pivotal role to provide HR support services to the Chief Executive Officer.

This is a very important role; the HR Manager takes care of all aspects of running the HR function for the UK operations.

This person should be and experienced HR professional, extremely well organised, diligent, and confident in approach as well as articulate – being able to adapt approach dependent on the customer and needs.
 
Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Manage employee relations casework including dispute resolutions, disciplinaries, grievances, absence, and redundancy.
• Apply HR and business knowledge evidencing appropriate decision-making skills.
• Advise managers on the terms and conditions of employment and knowledge share best practice with them.
• Develop HR policy and procedures to drive performance and mitigate disputes.
• Provide first line advice on current and existing benefits for employees and managers.
• Work with appropriate parties on reward strategy.
• Provide advice on recruitment and selection strategies.
• Support the recruitment process – this may include writing job descriptions and preparing interview questions and application forms etc.
• Carry out new starter inductions.
• Drive alignment between HR strategy and business goals.
• Continuously monitor and review HR policies and processes and implement changes where necessary.
• Participate in the implementation of specific projects, procedures and guidelines to help align the workforce with the strategic goals of the organisation.
• Support change management processes.
• Working with 3rd Party legal advisors to ensure compliance to legislation.
• Working knowledge of HR Systems 

• Knowledge of employment legislation and current best practices.
• CIPD qualified – Level 5 minimum working towards or achieved Level 7.
• Experience of working directly for Board Members.
• Highly effective use of MS Office and IT Literate.
• Possess good communication skills.
• Manufacturing/Warehousing experience would be preferred.

• Holidays – 22 days rising to 25 after 3 complete years’ service.
• Pension – 4% contribution
• Death in Service – 2 x annual salary.