HR Business Lead North West and Scotland in Warrington

At Linde Material Handling, we are looking for the HR Business Lead to ensure the successful implementation of the people strategy based on business priorities across our functional areas and Regional Business Units. This is a pivotal position where you will be 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.

We offer:

• Flexible Working: Hybrid and adaptable arrangements to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
• Financial Benefits: Competitive salary, salary sacrifice pension scheme, life assurance and exclusive discount vouchers.
• Generous Leave: 25 days annual holiday plus bank holidays to recharge and relax.

Responsibilities:

• Provide 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.
• Provide employee and business insights on people-related topics and define the appropriate people plans.
• Take 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.
• Leverage expertise and data insights across the HR specialist teams and drive to solve end-to-end problems.
• Drive diversity and inclusion, well-being and culture across the HR agenda of the business areas.
• Apply 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 an 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 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.

What We're Looking For:

• 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.

Key Skills: GIS, Accounts Reconciliation, General Services, Consultancy, Fusion, GSM.