Head of People

London Permanent £60,000 - £70,000 per year View Job Description
Head of People opportunity designed to:Lead the People team and shape the full employee journey across the organisation.Drive the People & Culture strategy and lead annual planning.Partner with the Executive and Leadership teams to influence strategic and operational decisions.Oversee casework and change programmes, ensuring legal compliance and risk mitigation.
  • Pivotal leadership role at leading health charity in London
  • To drive the People & Culture strategy and lead annual planning

About Our Client

A leading health charity in London with a headcount of around 600 employees

Job Description

Head of People responsibilities:

● Lead, coach, mentor and develop the People team and People Partners to deliver the operational and strategic people requirements across the entire people portfolio

● Work in partnership and provide coaching, direction and support to Executive members (inc CEO) and Leaders to enable them to deliver their teams plans and strategies

● Provide professional people advice, guidance and support with an up to date employment law input on a wide range of strategic and operational people issues. This will include leading on complex areas of change and providing guidance on employee relations cases

● Manage the people and establishment budgets and plans, setting the annual process ensuring effective financial control through the monitoring and review of the monthly management accounts.

● Work in partnership with the Associate Director of People & Culture in delivering the strategic agenda, People & Culture Strategy.

● Prepare and deliver papers and presentations on people related activities to leaders and committees

The Successful Applicant

Please apply for this Head of People role if you fit the below criteria:

● Proven experience working as a People lead that includes, strategic Business Partnering and organisational change and restructures

● Demonstrable experience of managing complex employee relations issues including disciplinaries, grievances, appeals and performance management. This includes ETs and the interpretation of legislation for the purposes of internal policies and advice

● Proven experience of coaching and leading teams of professionals

● Experience of influencing and challenging executives within an organisational setting

● Ability to resolve difficult situations and problems that are people focused

● Presenting to diverse audiences on challenging people matters

● Proven attributes and approaches to reach logical, fair and inclusive outcomes

● Hold a level 7 CIPD qualification or have relevant professional experience.

● Budget and annual planning

● Designing and delivering learning initiative

What's on Offer

Head of People offering:

Reporting to: Associate Director of People & CultureWork pattern: Hybrid (3 days on site in central London office) 35 hour working week

Salary: Circa £65,000-£70,000 dependant on experience

Benefits: My client provides benefits that support their people and that enable versatile, creative and inspiring ways of working for a diverse and inclusive culture. This includes pension, maternity/ paternity, cycle and season ticket loan among othersThe interview process for this role will consist of two stages

Contact
Katy Simmonds
Quote job ref
JN-072025-6786160
Phone number
+44 207 645 1439

Job summary

Job function
Human Resources
Subsector
Head of HR
Sector
Transport & Distribution
Location
London
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Katy Simmonds
Consultant phone
+44 207 645 1439
Job reference
JN-072025-6786160