HR Business Lead - North West and Scotland

Kion Group; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company in Liverpool is looking for an HR Business Lead to implement their people strategy aligned with business priorities. This role includes driving HR initiatives, supporting managers with employee relations, and leveraging data insights to improve processes. Candidates should have strong interpersonal skills, strategic thinking, and experience in a sales/service or engineering environment. A degree in HR or Business is required. This position offers the opportunity to shape the HR agenda and foster a positive employee experience.

Qualifications

• Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders.
• Experience in employee relations and employment law.
• Strong execution skills and learning agility.

Responsibilities

• Drive HR strategic projects and initiatives across the business.
• Support managers with HR-related advice and coaching.
• Develop and maintain understanding of business issues and strategies.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Influencing skills

Communication skills

Strategic mindset

Critical thinking

Adaptability

Problem-solving

Continuous improvement mindset

Education

Degree in HR/Business or equivalent

Tools

Workday

Excel

PowerPoint

Visio

Job description

The HR Business Lead will ensure the successful implementation of the people strategy based on business priorities across our functional areas and Regional Business Units. The role is responsible for ensuring the successful translation of strategy into actionable deliverables relating to day-to-day HR activity.

The role will be a key partner in developing the people agenda, championing employee engagement initiatives, and acting as an advocate for the respective business area. Developing and implementing the associated people plan, initiatives and processes, whilst building and supporting high-performing teams. Ability to build strong and influential relationships with key stakeholders. Coaching managers to improve their impact as leaders, and enabling them to resolve complex employee cases.

We offer:

Accountabilities

• Provides the key interface across all areas of the people agenda within business areas, while collaborating alongside the HR specialist teams and ensuring close collaboration with HR Services
• Be responsible for all Employee Relations case management processes for the respective regional teams.
• Advise and upskill people managers in HR-related matters in order to sustain good employee relations and provide coaching and expertise on absence, conduct, talent and performance matters.
• Ensure HR strategic projects are implemented, understood and embedded
• Provides employee and business insights on people-related topics and define the appropriate people plans
• Takes ownership for the respective headcount and people costs for the business area, providing data and insight to support the development of the HR budget and workforce planning
• Leverages expertise and data insights across the HR specialist teams and drives to solve end-to-end problems
• Drives diversity and inclusion, well-being and culture across the HR agenda of the business areas
• Applying change management expertise to ensure that organisational changes are planned and implemented in a way that applies best practice.
• Analyse and advise on people metrics to prioritise areas of focus and use insights to improve our HR service and inform next steps
• Develop and maintain and understanding of the key business issues within assigned area, its strategies, ways of working and provide proactive support and advice on policies, practices and processes
• Mediate and learn lessons from complex case management activities
• Work with other HR teams to design, deliver and review services and projects that are part of the employee lifecycle and help continue to make KION IT’S A great place to work
• Apply feedback, experience and knowledge of wider market changes to update and maintain people policies and processes to ensure that we can achieve HR and business goals and mitigate people-related risks.
• Support the business with activities relating to employee experience and engagement including action planning

Tasks and Qualifications

Competencies, Experience, Qualifications: Degree in HR/Business related or equivalent experience

• Strong interpersonal, influencing and communication skills with the ability to form successful working relationships quickly and across all levels
• Strategic mindset combined with strong execution skills and critical thinking with excellent learning agility
• Adaptability with the confidence to share ideas and propose solutions to senior-level stakeholders
• Experience of working within a sales/service or engineering environment
• Strong experience of employee relations and employment law including trade unions
• Continuous improvement mindset; experience in improving ways of working and processes
• Good system knowledge – workday, excel, powerpoint, Visio etc
• Ability to problem solve and take learning from every challenge