Senior HR Consultant
East Midlands Area (Peterborough/Northampton areas)
Competitive salaries and excellent benefits including up to one day’s paid leave each year to undertake volunteering opportunities
As a Senior HR Consultant at MAKE UK HR & Employment Law (HRL), you will manage and deliver our HR consultancy services and training, both independently and collaboratively with our team and associate consultants. Your role involves continuous development of our HR offerings, working closely with sales colleagues and cross-functional teams to enhance our consultancy services.
Role and Responsibilities
- HR Consultancy and Training: Deliver HR consultancy and training services to MAKE UK member companies and external clients.
- Needs Analysis: Manage the needs analysis, design, delivery, validation, and evaluation of HR consultancy interventions and training.
- Client Requests: Respond to member and client requests for HR consultancy, providing advice on options, arranging meetings, and supporting proposals.
- Market Opportunities: Seek and develop opportunities to market and sell HR consultancy to meet team targets.
- Product Development: Innovate and develop HR consultancy products in line with national guidelines and requirements.
- Quality Improvement: Continuously improve the quality of MAKE UK’s HR consultancy services and products.
- Collaboration: Work with MAKE UK HRL colleagues and MAKE UK teams to support consultancy opportunities and cross-selling.
About you
- Proven experience in three or more areas: strategic HR, change management, learning strategy, day-to-day HR practices, HR training development and delivery.
- Extensive track record in providing HR and organisational change best practices.
- Broad understanding of organisational culture change and performance management.
- Deep understanding of current HR challenges.
- Comfortable engaging with diverse colleagues and senior clients.
- Proven project management skills.
- Skilled in developing business cases and articulating benefits.
- Experience as a senior HR professional or internal consultant in a commercial business environment.
- Proven advisory experience with business managers and stakeholders on various people issues.
- Demonstrable results or added value from HR interventions.
- Experience in reviewing HR policies, contracts, and handbooks.
Knowledge
- Broad understanding of key people issues and legislative impacts.
- Up-to-date technical knowledge and skills in HR practice.
- Understanding of the training cycle (TNA, design, delivery, validation, and evaluation).
- Knowledge of the latest HR management and training best practices.
Personal Qualities
- Ability to work autonomously and handle process ambiguity.
- Effective team player and independent worker.
- Skilled in building business relationships and self-marketing.
- Attention to detail.
- Commercial and customer focus
Other Information
Applicants must hold a full, clean driving license as the role requires regional travel and occasional travel within England and Wales.
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What we do
We stimulate success for manufacturing businesses, helping them to meet their objectives and goals. We empower individuals and we inspire the next generation.
How we do it
We enable manufacturers to connect, share, solve problems and create opportunities together. We do this through regional and national meetings, groups, events and advisory boards. We work at every level to ensure UK Manufacturing performs and grows, now and in the future.