HR Manager

Overview

The HR Manager will provide comprehensive support to the Corporate HR Function, ensuring alignment with key strategic objectives. This position aims to establish the UK HR team as a highly efficient, valued, and respected resource for both managers and employees. The HR Manager will support a diverse, multi-divisional business that includes operational, manufacturing, customer service, and commercial functions across multiple sites.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to business and functional leaders, providing expert consultation and actionable insights in the areas of:
  • Talent Management
  • Organizational Development
  • Performance Management
  • Career Development
  • Employee Relations
  • Compensation Planning
  • Change Management
  • Change Leadership
• Leverage all areas of the HR Model (HR Business Partners, Field HR, Platforms, Colleague Services and Technologies) to enhance collaboration and improve the colleague experience
• Provide exceptional advisory capabilities and partnership to the business, enabling strategies to improve the overall work experience through enhancing role model Leadership capabilities
• Utilise country, regional and site Talent Plans to accelerate the Company\\\’s path to best-in-class representation
• Act as a change agent and support key initiatives at site, regional and country levels, operating in a sophisticated and collaborative structure
• Leverage HR & Management Information to identify trends and risks, supporting business leadership in managing diversity, attraction, retention, career development, performance, engagement and compliance
• Adopt the deployment strategy by working across sites and regions, aligning with the overall UK Strategy

Leadership Responsibilities

• Develop a successful team by:
  • Attracting, hiring, and developing exceptional, diverse talent who will autonomously excel in the company culture
  • Setting clear performance expectations and holding your team & others accountable for achieving desired results
  • Defining and employing performance management and retention strategies by providing open and timely feedback to ensure performance improvement, team stability and focus
  • Encouraging suggestions for improvement and recognizing exceptional performance
  • Engaging in career discussions and ensuring each colleague has a meaningful career development plan
• Create a Successful Work Environment by:
  • Creating an environment where individuals feel valued and different views are encouraged and respected
  • Cultivating a culture where your team feel physically and emotionally safe and can raise difficult issues
  • Promoting a culture of learning and information sharing
  • Empowering and encouraging team members to take thoughtful risks
  • Assessing local environments to understand negative drivers (ex. turnover, morale, productivity) and implements remediation plans as appropriate
  • Understands root cause of targeted organizational challenges and removes barriers to success
• Move Strategy to Action by:
  • Aligning work priorities to business, functional and company goals
  • Communicating a clear plan and motivating the team to achieve goals and defined success metrics
  • Regularly reviewing team\\\’s priorities. Have the courage to prioritise the critical few and stop on/low-value-added work
  • Prioritising and deploying resources optimally

Experience, skills & abilities required

• Consistently demonstrates our 4i Values of Integrity, Intensity, Innovation & Involvement
• Puts the Customer First
• Thinks and acts with a customer-centric approach to deliver exceptional customer experience
• Prioritizes customer requirements and is dedicated to meeting or exceeding customer expectations
• Continuously improves internal processes to create new value for the customer
• Develops and maintains successful customer relationships (internal and/or external)
• Owns Their Results
• Takes personal accountability for decisions and actions, and always exercises good judgement
• Does not make excuses for poor performance, is open about what is not working and what needs to be done to fix it
• Takes personal ownership for adherence to safety, compliance, quality, and cyber security
• Consistently applies good judgement and maintains commitment to Thermo Fisher Scientific ethics and values
• Finds a Better Way Every Day
• Is intellectually curious and adopts continuous improvement, challenging the status quo. Introduces and proactively seeks out new insights and solutions to strengthen performance
• Role model the use of Practical Process Improvement (PPI) to improve processes
• Holds self and others accountable to build PPI capability and instill a continuous improvement culture
• Ensures standard methodologies and lessons learned are adopted

Ideally CIPD Qualified or equivalent with significant HR Generalist experience in operational and commercial environments; successful in working within a sophisticated matrixed organisation; good general knowledge of all key aspects of UK employment law; validated interpersonal, communication and presentation skills; ability to work on own initiative to deliver projects and implement new initiatives; ability to research, analyse and reason logically within tight and conflicting time frames; ability to adopt and handle change in a fast-paced environment handling high levels of ambiguity at times; ability to navigate matrix structures and organisational relationships; confident in engaging and collaborating with managers and business leaders; travel to other Thermo Fisher Scientific sites may be required within the UK.