Head of People and Culture - Immediate start date

Head of People

Leeds City Centre offices – hybrid (2 days WFH, 3 in the office) – will consider full or part time

Salary – competitive

The Opportunity

A great opportunity to bring best practice HR and cultural development to the forefront of the rapidly growing Group.

This brand-new position will give you the autonomy to establish and build the People & Culture function and have a direct impact on the growth and continued success of the group. You will be working with a passionate, driven team who strive for success in their elite US executive search specialisms.

This is a brilliant opportunity for an ambitious and energetic leader who has a strong employee focused generalist HR background from within a similar fast paced, entrepreneurial and high performing environment.

Our Ideal candidate

As our new Head of People & Culture, you’re an experienced HR professional seeking an exciting new role in a forward thinking, entrepreneurial and fast paced executive search business where you have the capacity to really make a difference. Being a people person goes without saying but you also have a strong strategic vision and plenty of commercial savvy.

With a HR generalist background, you’ll have solid knowledge and experience in disciplines, particularly compensation and benefits, training and development, employee relations and organisational development – and you will be comfortable applying these in an organisation within a similar industry sector to ours.

As the Group’s expert in all things people and culture, you will be responsible for partnering with the Senior leadership team to create and implement the strategies needed to help us achieve our ambitious growth plans, whilst ensuring that our team have a voice that is listened to, and our culture, both as a group and within each division results in a happy, productive team that yield success in our high performing environment.

You’ll work closely with our management team to ensure that our current teams are as skilled as they can be and that they feel valued and know of the potential career opportunities that lie ahead of them in this group.

Key Duties will involve

- Establishing, leading, and evolving the People & Culture department (with assistance from a 3rd party HR and legal support) so it is fully functional

- Working with the CEO to develop and implement an annual People & Culture strategy in line with both the Group and each divisions business plans to ensure the high-performing culture and growth plans stay on track

- Partnering with senior leaders and managers across the group to foster a culture of high performance whilst doing things “the right way” to ensure everyone is treated fairly, consistently, and transparently as a member of the team

- Ensure there are mechanisms in place to give employees a voice with a robust analysis and action driven reporting process built from the data that is gathered so that any changes and improvements are made where identified

- Define the training and development offering for the group, focusing on topics such as sales, management development and EDI

- Put in place innovative talent mapping and succession planning strategies and processes across the Group to support growth and retention plans

- Work with the senior team to review the effectiveness of the current benefits package and make and implement improvements and changes as required.

What's in it for you

A competitive salary and range of benefits that are evolving all the time. Not to mention our generous holiday allowance and extended Christmas break!

About us

Our company was founded over a decade ago and since then, we have completed Executive search campaigns in over 60 countries across key market sectors. We are dedicated to accessing top tier leadership candidates for our clients to allow them to transform their organisations worldwide.

Through our three values, we work harder than anyone else to put highly qualified executives in a position to transform their careers and the organisations they’re placed in:

- Integrity

- Respect

- Succession

The group is made up of a number of divisions with a total headcount of c90 employees, all focusing on finding exceptional talent across different sectors at Executive Search level in the US market. Due to our impressive growth, both from a headcount and revenue perspective, we are now at a point where we recognise the importance of investing in our central infrastructure so we can continue this trajectory into 2023 and beyond.

INDTFG

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £50,000.00-£70,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

• LEEDS: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

• Bachelor's (preferred)

Experience:

• HR: 1 year (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in LEEDS