Head of Human Resources

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a commercially aware, strategic HR professional to join an established and expanding Marketing Communications Group.

You will be responsible for 4 of the group companies in the Communications field, the largest of which is a successful Financial and Corporate Public Relations Agency. You will have appoximately 250 people in your area and will be assisted by an HR Co-ordinator and HR Asst.

You will report directly into the CEO and Heads of Business and will work with them to deliver HR strategy to recruit, retain and develop the people to meet the business strategy.

You will need to be particularly strong in ER and Employment Law and have had a broad generalist role at a similar level.

Your commercial awareness will be used to work with the Senior teams to put in place strategy and processes, the ability to see the bigger picture and deal with often a lot of information is essential, in addition you will use your experience and confidence to provide advice, expertise and at time challenge Managers within the business.

A key area of the role is the development of the people, you will source or deliver initiatives.

This will be a challenging and rewarding role. You will work as part of a bigger HR function and although fairly autonomous will have the support of the HR Director and the wider team.

The successful candidate will be CIPD qualified with a solid background in HR probably across both corporate and creative organisations but definitely in a commercial organisation.

If you are interested in this role please forward your cv