HR Manager in Halifax

Verdant Specialty Solutions is a global specialty chemical company. Its customers include world-leading personal care and home care brands, energy solutions providers, and industrial companies. Verdant’s vision is to be the go-to provider of batch specialty surfactant-based chemistry for applications in the consumer and industrial markets. Based in Houston, the company has seven locations in the US and Europe. Verdant’s international team of 330 employees are committed to safety, quality, and supply reliability.

As the HR Manager for Europe, you will be responsible for providing a comprehensive HR service for our UK and Germany sites, which ensures that managers and employees are equipped to achieve the goals and objectives of the organisation in conjunction with the implementation of HR strategy and policies of the Group, whilst respecting the legal constraints.

To operate within and maintain all appropriate Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality standards in order to ensure that the products and services provided by the site comply with regulatory and company standards and customer expectations.

• Acts as HR Business Partner to Site Managers to help support the company goals.
• Provide day to day site HR support for management teams and employees, ensuring current knowledge of employment legislation and ER is maintained to ensure business and legislation compliance.
• An understanding of UK employment law and HR procedures is a must, along with the confidence to positively challenge line managers and encourage best practices to minimise business risk.
• Manage the employee lifecycle, from attraction, recruitment, onboarding, termination and exit.
• Ensure that all necessary employment documents are completed accurately and in compliance with legal requirements.
• Identify and manage succession-planning programs for key positions.
• Lead HR initiatives and strategic HR projects for the Site.
• Manage the monthly payroll for UK and Germany through a third party payroll provider.
• Evaluate and benchmark compensation and benefit programs.
• Data reporting and analysis such as payroll/employer costs, headcount attrition, and absence statistics, using it to support business decisions.
• Facilitate employee relations with the site teams and Trade Union representatives to foster effective engagement and collaboration and foster a culture of feedback and open communication.
• Manage HR policies for best practice and legal compliance.
• Support the L&D strategy for the site and delivering on-site HR training programmes to meet identified training needs.

• CIPD Level 7 Qualified or degree in human resources, or related field.
• Minimum 2 years of HR and payroll management experience required.
• Manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
• Experience in managing third party payroll.
• Experience and understanding German HR Practices and payrolling preferred but not essential.
• Experience with Trade Unions preferred.

• Exceptional attention to details and accuracy.
• Ability to build effective relationships quickly.
• Strong Microsoft Excel experience.
• Strong knowledge and experience with payroll/HRIS systems.
• Strong communication skills.
• Self-motivated and able to work autonomously.

• Competitive salary with bonus scheme.
• Pension.
• Life Assurance.
• 25 Days Holiday + Statutory.
• Employee Assistance Program.

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