HR Manager driving People & Culture initiatives across Northern Europe for Valmet, partnering with leaders and ensuring compliance and modern operations.
About the role
- Head of People at Babcock, shaping HR strategy and capabilities for a global workforce. Enabling operational excellence across diverse sectors including military and emergency services.
Responsibilities
- Shape and deliver HR strategy aligned with business goals, influencing senior leaders and key stakeholders.
- Lead HR services across the employee lifecycle, driving consistency, compliance, and continuous improvement.
- Coach and develop HR teams, building capability and fostering a high-performance culture.
- Champion diversity, inclusion, wellbeing, and engagement as integral parts of the people agenda.
- Partner with leaders to anticipate workforce needs, plan succession, and support transformation initiatives.
- Represent HR in cross-functional forums, contributing to organisational success.
Requirements
- Extensive HR expertise with experience in large, complex, global organisations.
- Proven HR leadership track record, operating as a key member of a strategic leadership team.
- Strong commercial acumen, able to understand stakeholder needs and deliver effective, pragmatic solutions.
- Collaborative and influential, building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders through integrity and transparency.
- Innovative and resilient, bringing diverse groups together and leading through complexity to achieve successful outcomes.
- The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
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