Group Human Resources Manager

ABOUT ES BROADCASTES Media Group is a group of businesses including ES Broadcast and ES Broadcast Hire, leading providers of equipment sales, equipment rental and systems integration services to the professional broadcast industry, as well as live events, esports, corporate and government sectors, Film Store Rental, a cine equipment rental business, and Memnon, a library migration and content services business. The HR function provides services to all companies across the ES Media Group in UK, Europe, New Zealand and USA.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The Group HR Manager is responsible for delivering comprehensive, consistent, and compliant HR support across ES Media Group. This pivotal role oversees the day-to-day HR function, guiding the HR team and partnering with senior leadership team (SLT) to ensure that people-related initiatives align with business objectives, legal requirements, and best practices. With a mandate to design, develop, and implement a modern, connected, and pragmatic HR approach, the Group HR Manager leads the transformation and ongoing improvement of HR systems, policies, and processes. This role is instrumental in embedding a high-performance culture, ensuring the smooth execution of HR operations such as onboarding/offboarding, employee relations, contractual changes, internal communications, payroll support, and policy development.

Operating across multiple group companies each with varying priorities and jurisdictional considerations, the role requires a strong understanding of employment law across different regions and the ability to tailor solutions to diverse business contexts. The Group HR Manager acts as a key advisor and business partner to managers and directors across the group, providing coaching and guidance to strengthen people management capabilities and ensure effective leadership. A role model within the organisation, the Group HR Manager sets the tone for HR excellence, integrity, and professionalism.

DUTIES AND KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• HR Business Partnering:

• Partner with business leaders to align HR strategies with organisational goals and the Group’s overall vision.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), contributing to strategic decision-making from a people perspective.
• Provide expert HR leadership, coaching, and guidance to managers across all levels to strengthen people management capabilities.
• Represent the HR function internally and externally with professionalism, consistency, and credibility.
• Drive the HR agenda by embedding a culture of excellence, accountability, and professionalism.
• Coach and train business leaders on their role in delivering the HR agenda to enable business performance.
• Evaluate the challenges faced by the business and take appropriate action to mitigate risks and develop opportunities.
• Act as a vital member of the Senior Leadership Team, being valued as a trusted advisor.
• Provide strong HR Leadership support, advice and guidance.
• Development and continuous monitoring of HR policies and procedures to support the culture, reflect legislative changes, drive performance.
• Ensure legal compliance is met in all HR activities.
• Champion and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement and quality.
• Lead on employee relations across the business ensuring the HR team are supporting and guiding the business through best practice.
• Lead on complex employee relation issues and cases.
• Taking a lead on legal and employee relations advisory delivery ensuring that appropriate systems for establishing, monitoring and evaluating quality standards are in place, taking proactive measures, where appropriate, to ensure standards are maintained.
• Support the business with key succession management, planning and talent development to ensure that we have a strong bench and unique successor pool.
• Oversee recruitment across the business ensuring consistency in process.
• Responsible for the employee experience across the organisation, plotting the employee experience journey and enabling engagement and performance.
• Accountable for overseeing the design and use of regular staff surveys and other engagement tools to continuously promote staff engagement and cultural changes.

• Performance Management:

• Ownership of the annual performance management, goals, pay review and bonus cycle.
• Identify training needs across business and develop training solutions as required.
• Lead, inspire, coach, and develop the HR team member, ensuring high levels of professionalism at all times.
• Carry out performance reviews for the team, ensuring business goals are clearly communicated and linked to objectives.
• Engages the team to perform at their best, connecting them with wider priorities and organisation vision.

• Payroll:

• Full responsibility for ensuring payroll practices are suitable and fit for purpose for each business/division.
• Ensure payroll is processed by the team with zero errors and issues.
• Resolve/deal with complex payroll queries that cannot be resolved by the team.
• Co-ordinate remuneration policies for compensation and benefits; advise senior management and the Board on employee salaries, benefits and bonus payments (in partnership with the Finance Team) in reference to external benchmarks.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Degree and/or CIPD qualified.
• Experience of managing a HR team in a fast paced complex environment.
• Track record in providing leadership in collaborative roles and building strong working relationships with multiple stakeholders at a senior level.
• Able to demonstrate problem solving capabilities.
• Well-developed organisation skills and to be proactive, with a proven ability to prioritise workload in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal and the ability to work collaboratively with a diverse range of people and organisations to build trust at all levels.
• Leadership skills with the ability to demonstrate emotional intelligence and coach, motivate and engage staff to achieve business targets.
• Experience of managing projects and seeing successful delivery of these through coordination via multi-disciplinary teams.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

• Flexible working requirements.
• To take responsibility for your own health and safety as necessary.
• To comply with the company’s disciplinary and grievance procedure as required.
• To comply with the company’s policies and procedures at all times.
• The post holder will be required to undertake such other duties as may be required within the grade and competence of the post. Therefore, the list of duties in this job description should not be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive.
• Duties are set out in this job description but please note that, in consultation with the post holder, the company reserves the right to update the job description from time to time to reflect changes in or to the role. Significant permanent changes in duties and responsibilities will require agreed revisions to be made to this job description.