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Head of People - UK
Hertfordshire
Up to £115,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
A rare opportunity to join a highly successful, globally recognised engineering and manufacturing business at a pivotal stage of growth and transformation.
This is a senior leadership role within a complex, matrix-led international organisation. This particular division of the group employs circa 3,000 employees across 10 global businesses, with the UK site forming a key strategic growth hub.
Based in Hertfordshire, the site currently employs circa 500 people, with significant planned growth over the next 18 months. Backed by major investment, the organisation is undergoing large-scale transformation programmes spanning organisational design, operational performance, cultural change, leadership capability, talent development and ways of working.
Reporting into the Divisional HR Director and forming part of the UK Senior Leadership Team, the Head of People will lead a well-established HR function and play a critical role in shaping the future people strategy for the site.
Key areas of responsibility include:
• Leading and developing a multi-disciplinary HR team
• Driving organisational design and transformation activity
• Partnering with senior leadership on strategic workforce planning
• Leading union relationships and employee forum activity
• Supporting large-scale change and engagement initiatives
• Overseeing talent, succession and leadership development strategies
• Ensuring HR compliance, governance and operational excellence
• Acting as a strategic HR Business Partner to the SLT
We are keen to speak with commercially minded HR leaders who bring experience from manufacturing, engineering, industrial or utilities environments, ideally within unionised settings.
You will be an influential and credible senior HR professional with strong change leadership capability, experience operating within complex organisations and a track record of building high-performing teams.
Key requirements:
• Significant senior generalist HR leadership experience
• Manufacturing / engineering / industrial sector background
• Unionised environment experience
• Strong organisational development and transformation expertise
• Experience leading and developing HR teams
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing capability
• CIPD Chartered qualification preferred
Should you be interested in discussing this vacancy please contact Annabel Green via email at annabel@resourcing4hr.co.uk or call her on 07850 215276. Alternatively linkin with me on LinkedIn or register your details on www.resourcing4hr.co.uk.
Resourcing4HR is an independent HR Recruitment and Consultancy company specialising in supporting the HR Community - both candidates and clients alike, in a partnership approach to resourcing HR professionals.
Resourcing4HR is an equal opportunities employer and a company committed to diversity.
Resourcing4HR operates as a Recruitment Agency for the provision of permanent candidates and as a Recruitment Business for the provision of temporary candidates
Hertfordshire
Up to £115,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
A rare opportunity to join a highly successful, globally recognised engineering and manufacturing business at a pivotal stage of growth and transformation.
This is a senior leadership role within a complex, matrix-led international organisation. This particular division of the group employs circa 3,000 employees across 10 global businesses, with the UK site forming a key strategic growth hub.
Based in Hertfordshire, the site currently employs circa 500 people, with significant planned growth over the next 18 months. Backed by major investment, the organisation is undergoing large-scale transformation programmes spanning organisational design, operational performance, cultural change, leadership capability, talent development and ways of working.
Reporting into the Divisional HR Director and forming part of the UK Senior Leadership Team, the Head of People will lead a well-established HR function and play a critical role in shaping the future people strategy for the site.
Key areas of responsibility include:
• Leading and developing a multi-disciplinary HR team
• Driving organisational design and transformation activity
• Partnering with senior leadership on strategic workforce planning
• Leading union relationships and employee forum activity
• Supporting large-scale change and engagement initiatives
• Overseeing talent, succession and leadership development strategies
• Ensuring HR compliance, governance and operational excellence
• Acting as a strategic HR Business Partner to the SLT
We are keen to speak with commercially minded HR leaders who bring experience from manufacturing, engineering, industrial or utilities environments, ideally within unionised settings.
You will be an influential and credible senior HR professional with strong change leadership capability, experience operating within complex organisations and a track record of building high-performing teams.
Key requirements:
• Significant senior generalist HR leadership experience
• Manufacturing / engineering / industrial sector background
• Unionised environment experience
• Strong organisational development and transformation expertise
• Experience leading and developing HR teams
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing capability
• CIPD Chartered qualification preferred
Should you be interested in discussing this vacancy please contact Annabel Green via email at annabel@resourcing4hr.co.uk or call her on 07850 215276. Alternatively linkin with me on LinkedIn or register your details on www.resourcing4hr.co.uk.
Resourcing4HR is an independent HR Recruitment and Consultancy company specialising in supporting the HR Community - both candidates and clients alike, in a partnership approach to resourcing HR professionals.
Resourcing4HR is an equal opportunities employer and a company committed to diversity.
Resourcing4HR operates as a Recruitment Agency for the provision of permanent candidates and as a Recruitment Business for the provision of temporary candidates

