HR Operations Manager

The opportunity

Due to our ongoing growth, we are looking for a HR Operation Manager to support our People team.

  • location
    Location Blackburn
  • salary
    Salary Competitive depending upon experience

About the role

You will lead a small HR team, where you’ll work alongside passionate and talented professionals dedicated to driving people and organisational success. You will support the business to deliver people-related processes, vision, and strategy across the company. Your fundamental focus will be to manage and optimise all HR operational procedures, systems, and services, ensuring seamless execution and providing dependable support to employees and managers.

Key responsibilities

  • Manage all core HR departmental areas, including payroll, employee relations, HR admin, internal recruitment and maintaining and improving HR systems.
  • Manage and optimise HR operational procedures, systems, and services, ensuring seamless execution and providing dependable support to employees and managers
  • To oversee HR operational activities, ensuring adherence to all applicable employment laws and regulations, and minimising organisational risk. Help to ensure employment law, HR policy, best practice and workforce development are applied throughout the organisation.
  • To drive operational excellence within the HR function by streamlining procedures, enhancing service provision, and ensuring accurate and timely execution of HR administrative tasks
  • Identify HR trends so that attention can be directed to key issues and resources
  • Identify staffing needs and manage the creation of job descriptions, handbooks and updates to policies
  • Continuously improve engagement and welfare activities, maximising productivity, devolving HR responsibilities to line managers and building leadership capability.
  • Control the performance review programme to deliver continuous employee development.
  • Advise staff on terms and conditions policies and procedures, including maternity and paternity leave, grievances, pay and any other issues which affect their employment
  • Regularly coach, mentor, and support colleagues (including our People team members) to identify individual strengths and development needs
  • Actively support and be involved in the preparing and handling of discipline and grievance cases; providing sound guidance in current practice and adherence to policies and procedures
  • Ensure internal HR communications, including any issues, initiatives and programmes are well planned, coordinated, relevant, timely and adhere to the company’s values.
  • Reporting of HR Statistics at board level

What you will need

Benefits

  • salary
    Competetive Salary (depending upon experience)
  • pension
    Contributory Company Pension Scheme
  • insurance
    Non-contributory death-in-service insurance
  • people
    Employee Assistance Programme
  • holiday
    33 Days Holiday including BH
  • flexible working hours
    Flexible working hours patterns
  • location
    Discounted gym memberships across the UK
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