HR Manager

Sirius Search; Bilston; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking an HR Manager to oversee HR functions for a manufacturing site in Bilston, UK. You will work closely with management, drive HR initiatives, and ensure workforce effectiveness. The ideal candidate has a Level 5 CIPD qualification and experience in a fast-paced environment. This role offers autonomy and requires strong interpersonal skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in HR management, preferably in manufacturing or a similar sector.
• Hands-on project management and change management experience required.

Responsibilities

• Provide advisory functions across the employee lifecycle.
• Build a credible HR partnership within the business.
• Collaborate with HR Shared Service for effective HR service.
• Own onsite projects to achieve local and wider HR strategy.
• Understand business requirements to inform HR priorities.
• Manage talent attraction and workforce planning.
• Implement global performance and reward processes.
• Nurture company culture and engagement.

Skills

Emotional intelligence

Negotiating and influencing

Adaptability

Attention to detail

Goal achievement urgency

Motivating and inspiring others

Education

Level 5 CIPD qualification

Job description

Are you a goal-focused HR Manager who can drive HR and execute the people agenda? Do you enjoy autonomy for a site-based role whilst being part of a wider Global business? This HR Manager opportunity reports directly to the Managing Director and forms part of the management team, and includes responsibility for an HR Assistant for a site of 200 Employees. You will have close alignment and collaboration with the wider, supportive HR network in the UK and Europe.

This HR Manager role is office-based to the West of Birmingham and may include some travel to other sites.

Duties, responsibilities, and tasks for this HR Manager role will include:

• Providing a full complement of advisory functions across the employee life cycle, including recruitment, performance, management, Employee Relations and career development.
• Building a credible and successful HR partnership within a developing business.
• Collaborating with HR Shared Service to ensure that company standard processes are in place, to deliver an effective day to day HR service. This will include incorporating new systems and HR processes to the operation.
• Taking ownership of onsite projects and implementation to achieve the local and wider HR strategy.
• Understand business requirements and strategic objectives and help to turn them into HR and people agenda priorities together with the MD / BU Directors, and HR Services team.
• Resourcing and Talent Management - Understand the resource planning and provide solutions in relation to skills gap analysis, talent attraction, creation of talent pipeline, and acquisition guidelines, including workplace equality, diversity and inclusion, key positions identification, leadership and talent review, critical candidate selection, headcount review.
• Ensure employees and their competence levels meet current and future business needs (long- and short-term workforce planning)
• Performance and Reward implement the Global Performance and reward process, which includes the annual timeline of appraisals, managing performance improvement, recognising high performance, reward strategy, reward and recognition planning and guidelines, off-cycle rewards, wellbeing.
• Culture and engagement - e.g. strategy and values communication, nurturing culture

About you:

You will have an HR generalist, HR Manager background from a fast-paced blue-collar environment, in a sector similar to Manufacturing. You will have Level 5 CIPD qualification as a minimum and have hands-on, project management and change management experience. To succeed in the role, your personal aptitudes will be:

• High Level of emotional intelligence
• Negotiating and influencing
• Adaptable
• Ability to work with attention to detail, meeting deadlines where required.
• Sense of urgency for goal achievement
• Ability to form natural connections with people, motivating and aspiring them to achieve

If this HR Manager role sounds like something you feel you could add value to and you want to contribute to continued succession, then forward your CV today to Cressida Courtney or follow the link and apply online.

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