HR Manager

An exciting opportunity for an experienced HR professional in this dynamic SME. Reporting into the Managing Director this is a hands-on role with a strategic aspect. The focus of this role will be to deliver people management strategies in support of the organisation’s strategic aims. The role will have both a strategic and operational, providing expert advice and support on all HR matters. The organisation is based in Crawley but has an international presence. You will be accountable for 1 HR/Payroll  Administrator. The role is office based.

HR Responsibilities:

• Work in close partnership with senior management to prepare and implement HR strategy
• Design and work across HR projects
• Create and issue any contracts
• Support managers and team leaders on all recruiting matters
• Advise managers and provide guidance on HR policy and procedures
• Keep up to date with employment legislation in key territories across the group: UK, Belgium, Netherlands & Germany.
• Manage investigations and complex employee relations issues including redundancy and grievance
• Ensure employee relation cases are managed to meet best practice requirements
• Develop and maintain HR policies
• Monitor and develop performance appraisal systems
• Monitor all employee records to include maternity, paternity requests and absence and sickness and provide regular reports to the senior management team
• Manage HR personnel files to ensure they are kept up-to-date
• Develop starter and leaver procedures
• Gather and evaluate market data to measure the organisation’s competitiveness for salary reviews, compensation and benefits packages
• Implementation of HR system
• Work closely with payroll bureau/local company accountants to process bi-weekly and monthly payrolls
• Processing holiday, sick and maternity pay and expenses, calculating overtime, shift payments, bonus’ and pay increases

Person Specification

• Several years demonstrable experience of providing customer-centric HR partnering & support
• Proven HR generalist experience on both strategic and operational level
• Up-to-date knowledge of employment law in the UK
• Experience of working for an European organisation or a company that has European offices
• Ability to work autonomously
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Exceptional planning and project management skills and experience

In return you will receive a salary of 55-60K (depending on experience) a bonus.