Head of HR Scotland & North

Head of HR – Scotland & North Permanent
70-75K + Car + Bonus + Excellent benefits

Are you an experienced HR professional with a passion for driving organisational change and delivering practical solutions? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as Head of HR for Scotland & North. As part of the local senior management team, you will play a pivotal role in delivering the people strategy across your operational/functional team. You will use your knowledge, expertise, insight and influence to develop commercially focused HR solutions that support the delivery of the team's objectives and financial growth.

To be successful in this role, you should have proven experience as a senior HR professional in a multi-site complex commercial environment, with a focus on delivering practical solutions. You should be commercially astute with the ability to grasp and translate the business strategy into clear, achievable people objectives, with a 'customer first' focus. Additionally, you should have demonstrable experience in partnering with stakeholders at all levels to drive organisational change, with the ability to support and influence operational/functional teams in achieving their plans and objectives.

As part of a wider HR team, you will seek and share insight into the UK People Plan and implement the plan at the local level, so that it becomes part of the culture and business as usual. You will also drive initiatives to deliver increased management capability and accountability, advocate and drive talent development to create a continuous pipeline of successors for key roles, and work proactively with the Recruitment team to retain talented individuals.

We are looking for someone who is comfortable working with ambiguity, is resilient, curious and open to learning and sharing. You should be MCIPD qualified or equivalent experience. Additionally, you should have in-depth knowledge of HR best practices, employment law, and ideally experienced in competency-based selection and psychometric testing.
Package

• Salary of 70-75K
• Bonus structure of between 25-45% of salary
• 7% company contribution into defined contribution pension
• Car allowance of 550 per month
• PMI for colleague and partner
• Life assurance of 4 x salary (as long as colleague contributes minimum 4% into pension)
• Holiday entitlement starts at 34 days a year including bank holidays.
  Holidays increase by 1 extra day in the year following your 5th, 6th and 7th service anniversary leading to a max of 36.
  We also have bonus anniversary holidays that colleagues receive starting at 20 years service (2 extra days for that year only), 30 years (3 days), 40 years (4 days), 50 years (5 days).
• Colleagues generally have the ability to buy holidays every year (currently it's 3 days per calendar year but this can change year to year depending on circumstances)
• Car salary sacrifice option
• Access to our reward gateway platform with high street discounts and cycle to work etc
• Access to Aviva Digicare+ platform where you can access services such as counselling, GP appointments, bloodwork checks, access to wellbeing discounts such as gym membership

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