Senior HR Leader

Edwards & Pearce; Barnsley; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Edwards & Pearce is helping a long-established client recruit a senior HR leader with an operational focus and a clear pathway to a C-suite HRD position. You will work as a true senior business partner to experienced MDs, providing strategic HR support during a period of positive change and growth.

The role is site-based with some UK travel and offers a starting salary of £80,000–£85,000 plus benefits, reflecting the seniority and impact of the position.

Qualifications

• Senior HR leader with strong operational focus and strategic mindset.
• Experience as a trusted partner to MDs and executive teams.
• Ability to influence across a complex, growth-focused organisation.

Responsibilities

• Provide full HR leadership across the business and act as a true senior business partner to MDs.
• Deliver strategic HR support during periods of change and growth.
• Travel UK as required and develop pathways to C-suite HR leadership.

Skills

Strategic HR

Senior leadership

Stakeholder management

Job description

This is a unique opportunity for an ambitious senior operationally minded HR Leader seeking a role that has a clear pathway in a relatively short space of time to an overall decision making HRD position working with long established experienced MD stakeholders. Our client is an outstanding organisation that develops their staff and has strong people values in everything they do, this role offers the opportunity for the right person to further develop into a global HRD position.

The role will offer full HR responsibility across all areas of HR, the chance to be a true senior business partner to highly experienced MD's and offer full strategic HR support during a key period of positive change and growth. Opportunities like these are very rare and working in companies that have been a proven successful business for a long time don't come around very often! The ideal HR candidates will be from South Yorkshire or West Yorkshire locations, the role is site based with some UK travel.

Are you seeking an HR opportunity that will allow you to step up into a C-suite level HR position in a relatively short time? If you are working at senior HR People leader level and seek a senior strategic operational HR position that requires you to work as a true senior business partner to experienced MD's and offer HR strategic advice and support in all things HR. If you are looking to work for an outstanding people values led organisation that truly believes in people support and development from the bottom up and top down, a highly forward-thinking business who are a global leader in their field, then this could be a real chance to fulfil your HR career aspirations.

There is a clear pathway to a C-suite HR position and further career pathways to global HRD responsibility for an ambitious confident and experienced "operationally focused" senior HR Manager who is ready to take the next step up the career ladder. Our client is undergoing positive change and growth, and the future is very bright and now due to the current senior HR Professional near retirement is seeking the right individual to step into those incredible shoes!

We are seeking operationally focused and experienced confident HR candidates located from the South and West Yorkshire regions who are used to working site based/office based working and willing to travel.

The starting salary is £80 - 85K plus benefits, office-based role with some travel to Manchester location

THE CONSULTANCY:

Edwards & Pearce acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Edwards & Pearce is an Equal Opportunities Employer