JOB DESCRIPTION

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing security company as a People and Culture Manager, reporting to the Director of People and Culture. As part of the Senior Leadership Team, you’ll work closely with other leaders to drive business objectives and uphold company values. You’ll support management and operations teams from a people perspective, delivering best-practice policies and initiatives with a pragmatic, commercial approach. Your leadership will foster innovation and help build a high-performance culture.

You’ll lead a team including a People and Culture Generalist, ER Assistant, People Assistant, and Recruitment Assistant. With overall responsibility for the department, you’ll coach, mentor, and develop the team to ensure a consistently excellent People service is delivered across the business.

• Build strong collaborative relationships with internal & external stakeholders
• Continual review and improvement on the delivery of People processes, practices, policies and procedures
• Manage and overall responsibility for the People Team department budget
• Driving and developing the company Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategy
• Ensure Operations are aware of the implications and effects of any proposed change both in employment law and with respect to company People policies and procedures.
• Support current and future business needs through the development, engagement, motivation and preservation of our colleagues
• Work with People team, Senior Leadership Team and Operation(s) teams to ensure that our clients are kept informed of any changes (People related) on their contracts (whether planned or unpredicted).
• Nurture a positive working environment in line with our culture of diversity and inclusion
• Oversee and manage the recruitment and retention process
• Accountability for ensuring People compliance with SIA standards/keeping abreast of any changes/developments in legislation.
• Advise, lead and deliver on change programmes such as reorganisations, redundancies, restructures, TUPE (on boarding mobilisation, de mobilisation) etc
• People lead on prestigious and/or complex contacts/sites
• Lead/support on high risk ER cases
• Ensure the People team are supporting the business with poor performance, misconduct, absence management, probation fails, SIA licence renewals/revokes etc
• .Accountable for dealing/responding to ACAS EC claims, ET claims, negotiating and drafting settlement agreements or advising on other exit strategies
• Monitor and develop the annual performance appraisal process – work with managers, the operations teams and the Training Manager to ensure PDP’s are mapped out/delivered/sourcing appropriate support
• Support the business with developing our Training Strategy
• Support the business with developing succession planning and talent management
• To keep abreast of changes in employment legislation and advice as appropriate
• Guide and support People team members with their work and activities and their continued professional development
• Actively involved in our Tender process. Attend presentations to showcase our people processes.