Client: Location: Salary: HR Manager – Nottinghamshire

Job Purpose

To lead the HR functions within the Nottingham store to ensure that, through working with the Store Management team, you have the ability to deliver the HR business plan in the short, medium and long term and in line with business strategy and objectives.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• Working with the SGM you will be accountable for the achievement of the store HR KPI’s through the management team.
• Working with the SGM and regional HR you implement a performance management culture that is recognised by the management team as supportive and engaging.Accelerating those individuals that demonstrate their stretch potential and dealing with those individuals who are under performing.
• To fully implement an effective MMP and appraisal framework within the store.Ensuring that individuals are fully trained and understand their responsibilities and time frames.
• Working with the SGM you are the final point of contact for resolving store disciplinary and grievance matters in accordance with operational and legal requirements.Ensuring that employees are treated fairly in line with best practice and employment legislation.
• Working with the SGM, establish a learning and development framework that supports the manpower and succession planning objectives of the store.Ensuring that individuals are encouraged and supported to maximise their capability, through clear and engaging learning and development plans which deliver against the store, regional and corporate objectives.
• You will be accountable for ensuring that the management team are fully trained in employment legislation, its importance, their role and its implications.
• Working with the SGM you are responsible for ensuring that all Statutory and Company regulations regarding Hygiene, Fire, Health and Safety and Store Security are followed to protect customers, colleagues and the business interests of the company.Ensuring that all training is given by fully trained individuals and thorough validations are carried out to check understanding and record training.Working with the SGM and line managers you are to ensure that your store training record cards are constantly kept up to date.
• Working with the SGM and management team you are responsible for ensuring the full integration of core training within departments and across the store ensuring competent delivery, evaluation and tracking of all department training initiatives and core activities.
• Working with your management colleagues you are responsible for ensuring the security of employees, customers, stock and other Company assets by ensuring that Company procedures are implemented, employees are trained, and all sensible precautions are taken.
• As the HR Manager for the store it will be down to you to ensure that you and your HR team provide accurate advice to the management team on all HR issues.Ensuring that employees are treated with dignity and respect and in line with best practice and employment law legislation.
• Working with the SGM you will be responsible for ensuring that employee engagement and Q12 form part of the fabric of the communication and engagement within the store and underpins all that you do.You will be responsible for ensuring that employee engagement action plans are in place and reviewed regularly with the SGM and their direct reports.
• You are the store champion for promoting Equality and Diversity principles across the management team.Ensuring that line managers understand what this looks like within their department and their responsibility for role modelling what good likes across the store.
• To be accountable for establishing, in conjunction with the resourcing team, SGM and Divisional Manager, a store manpower and resourcing plan taking into consideration short, medium and long term business objectives.
• You will be responsible for delivering a fit for purpose’ store structure in line with corporate best practice, that ensures that you have the right people in the right place, maximising customer interaction at every opportunity and delivering against store and corporate efficiencies at all levels.
• You are accountable for ensuring that all work permits held within the store are valid and take a proactive role in ensuring that permits that are due to expire are managed in the correct way, so that the store is not left legally exposed and that you comply with the immigration legislation at all times.
• Working with your HRM colleagues around the division, you actively share key learning and best practice with your colleagues and HRBP.Continuously looking for ways to improve your operation and sharing success with the group.
• Working with the SGM utilise the Divisional and Head Office HR teams so that you have the very best processes in place.Establishing ways of working that are second to none and delivering a store that not only demonstrates excellent HR practice but also competence within its management team.
• You are accountable for managing the efficient administration of all HR systems through the HR team.Ensuring that Line Managers and staff understand their responsibilities to supporting them.
• You are accountable for constructing accurate budgets to meet personnel costs targets, and provide support and advice to managers to ensure budgetary constraints are met.

  Skills & Experience

• Sound commercial judgment and understanding of business needs
• Influencing skills
• Planning and organizational skills
• Ability to follow procedures
• Good communication skills – written, verbal and presentation skills
• Training skills
• Coaching skills
• Sound knowledge of Health and Safety; COSHH, Food Safety and due diligence legislation
• Good knowledge of HR best practice, Equal opportunities and Employment Law legislation
• Ability to follow up and take action
• Ability to motivate
• Ideally should have CIPD qualification (not essential)

  Competencies

• Leadership
• Results Orientation
• Market and Customer Orientation
• Social Competence
• Intercultural Awareness
• Analytical and Strategic Competence
• Ability to bring about change.

Expires: 11/05/2011