Human Resources Manager - West Cornwall / Hybrid - Circa: £50,000
Well Placed HR are delighted to have been exclusively retained by a Cornish manufacturing success story that has grown at an extraordinary speed and shows no sign of slowing down. Due to this continued growth, the company now seeks to recruit an experienced HR Manager to take the helm of what is already an established and efficient function within a business that now employs in excess of 250 staff. The role is offered as a permanent, full time contract but applicants seeking a four day working week will also be considered. The company also promotes a hybrid working arrangement allowing the successful candidate to enjoy up to two days per week of remote working.

The company is headed up by an energetic and extremely entrepreneurial board of directors, so this will be no ordinary HR Manager appointment. It’s an opportunity to shape and develop a seriously efficient people management function designed to facilitate accelerated growth and a series of major recruitment projects. The role has the potential to be a career game changer. Core features of the role to include:

• Coach and mentor a small but long standing team of people management professionals
• Design, implement and develop a robust people management function from scratch, providing a high quality HRM service to existing and incoming employees
• Develop and maintain modern digital people management systems
• Ensure compliance with UK people management legislation and best practice
• Take a lead role in talent attraction, recruitment and onboarding of skilled employees working to ensure that the business is considered to be the “Employer of choice”
• Review of current time management system and implementation of new systems to accommodate the changing requirements of this growing company
• Develop high quality employee relations policy and practice
• Work closely with the senior management Team to develop road maps for staff including L&D programs and CPD
• Develop respected rewards, compensation and benefits initiatives
• Liaise with Health & Safety focussed stakeholders.
• Develop and implement rewards and benefits schemes
• Act as a senior line of support for disciplinary procedures
• Manage the implementation of company equality, diversity and social responsibility practices

The role requires an HR Manager with at least 3-5 years of recently gained experience in a similar role and with some/all exposure gained within a busy manufacturing or services environment, ideally a larger employer. Applicants should be qualified to CIPD Level 5/7 or equivalent and possess good generalist HRM knowledge, ideally gained within a fast-growth nationally operating business. Good general IT experience as well as experience using modern HR software essential. This is a highly communicative and visible role where the successful candidate will develop strong relationships with stakeholders throughout the business, so great team working and communication skills will be a prerequisite!
In addition to a generous base salary, the company offers a range of non-financial benefits to include a flexible, hybrid working arrangement.
For further details and to apply, please contact Carly Kellow quoting reference CK10681 as soon as possible. All expressions of interest will be treated in the strictest of confidence.

• Coach and mentor a small but long standing team of people management professionals
• Design, implement and develop a robust people management function from scratch, providing a high quality HRM service to existing and incoming employees
• Develop and maintain modern digital people management systems
• Ensure compliance with UK people management legislation and best practice
• Take a lead role in talent attraction, recruitment and onboarding of skilled employees working to ensure that the business is considered to be the “Employer of choice”
• Review of current time management system and implementation of new systems to accommodate the changing requirements of this growing company
• Develop high quality employee relations policy and practice
• Work closely with the senior management Team to develop road maps for staff including L&D programs and CPD
• Develop respected rewards, compensation and benefits initiatives
• Liaise with Health & Safety focussed stakeholders.
• Develop and implement rewards and benefits schemes
• Act as a senior line of support for disciplinary procedures
• Manage the implementation of company equality, diversity and social responsibility practice