Human Resources Director - Tenders Global

Human Resources Director

Next 15

Job title:

Human Resources Director

Company

Next 15

Job description

is a digital innovation agency, established for 21 years and part of the Next15 Communications group, a UK PLC with a global footprint across 50 offices in 15 countries. We connect brands and organisations to the future through disruptive thinking and transformative digital innovation, backed by strong execution.

Role overview

Brandwidth’s Human Resources Director leads a team of talent-focused individuals to devise and implement workforce strategies to improve and improve practices that achieve business goals.

The role includes oversight of all HR functions including talent acquisition, payroll and employee engagement for Brandwidth Group companies, creating and enforcing policies and programmes that ensure our people become the best versions of themselves. You will be reporting to the COO.

Working with our operations teams, you’ll build the trusted relationships necessary to undertake change management and organisational development based on data-centric decision-making, in turn reporting progress and performance to the senior leadership team.

This hybrid role requires you to work from our London office on Great Portland Street for at least a couple of days each week.

As a Human Resources Director at Brandwidth, you will:

Collaborate and Communicate

  • Based in London, the position requires experience in UK labour laws and practices with responsibility for international offices supported by our parent company’s people and legal teams in the market.
  • Champion, drive and implement change management programmes, employee-related and operations policies and processes to improve working practices.
  • Be a point of contact and mentor for line managers, empowering them to take accountability for managing performance and people.
  • Ensure effective methods are in place to identify, measure, develop and retain talent across the business.
  • Lead proactive and flawless communications that keep staff abreast of the latest initiatives concerning their welfare and company news and programmes.

Deliver and Develop

  • Establishment of and adherence to KPIs necessary to report on the performance of people initiatives to senior partners.
  • Planning, input and oversight of HR budgets for training, talent-related SaaS, facilities management, and cultural events.
  • Embrace and lead change management programmes, about M&A, team integration, benefits and rewards in a manner that improves operational performance by minimising disruption to employees, clients, and the business.

Executive Focus and Business Acumen

  • Partner with the senior leadership team to guide our performance through a variety of strategic initiatives concerning the well-being and performance of our people.
  • Be a point of escalation to resolve matters concerning employees in the context of their personal and contractual situations.
  • Align initiatives with progress against our corporate objectives e.g., training for DE&I and quality of service provision.

You will bring:

  • Several years of commercial experience working in an HR department, with 3-5 years in an HR leadership position.
  • Strong understanding of UK labour laws; evidence of successful structural change management; manage HR financial planning; work with staff information systems.
  • Evidence of working throughout the M&A process with demonstrable workforce integration success is beneficial.
  • Experience working for an agency or adjacent sector with an international footprint is beneficial.

And in return, Brandwidth offers:

  • Unlimited Holiday
  • Flexible, hybrid working
  • Annual bonus scheme
  • Private Health Plan
  • Life Assurance x 4 Salary
  • Income Protection
  • Enhanced Maternity & Paternity
  • Pre-tax workplace nursery funding
  • Season Ticket Loans and Cycle Scheme
  • Mental Health well-being services
  • Gym Membership discounts
  • Perks Programme (inc. well-known energy, retail and health)
  • Up to 40% off a new electric car

Brandwidth recognises that managing diversity is a continuous process of improvement and not a one-off initiative. Therefore, we develop and review our diversity strategy on an annual basis to support the achievement of business goals, including ways of addressing the diverse needs of our clients.

As a growing, global company, we focus on fairness and inclusion, ensuring that merit, competence and potential are the basis for all decisions about recruitment, development and appraisals. Brandwidth takes pride in keeping up to date with employment law and best practice when promoting equal opportunities and ensuring a diverse workforce.

We are growth consultants. We are obsessed with finding ways to help our customers grow sustainably whether that’s focused on their revenue, brands or impact on the world. Everything we do is driven by data and embraces technology. We employ close to 4,000 people across 42 offices in 15 countries, incorporating 22 subsidiary agencies spanning digital content, marketing, PR, consumer, technology, marketing software, market research, public affairs and policy communications.

Our Mission

Our mission is to become the world’s leading growth consultancy. For Next 15, growth consulting isn’t just about growth in sales and profitability. It is growth in reputation, talent and product market share. It’s growth in valuation, innovation and talent retention. Growth is a complex problem, and it needs a sophisticated solution.

Businesses are increasingly one large, interconnected digital entity. A problem or opportunity in one area is now connected to everything else. We view our clients through this digital lens to knit together insight, creative, business design, digital build and customer engagement under one roof to solve today’s most pressing business challenges.

Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance

We have accelerated our commitment to running a more sustainable, equitable and diverse organisation that displays leadership in governance and values. We are using the internationally recognised B Corp framework to focus our strategy on people, planet and profit.

Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 02:41:48 GMT

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