HR Business Lead - North West and Scotland

Linde Heavy Truck Division Ltd.; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing company in the United Kingdom is seeking an HR Business Lead for the North West and Scotland. This role focuses on implementing the people strategy and ensuring effective people management. Key responsibilities include fostering employee engagement, advising managers, and driving HR initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a degree in HR or Business, strong interpersonal skills, and experience in employee relations. This position offers a full-time contract and is based on-site, with multiple locations in England.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in employee relations and employment law including trade unions.
• Experience within a sales/service or engineering environment.
• Continuous improvement mindset; experience improving workflows.

Responsibilities

• Implement the people strategy based on business priorities.
• Provide coaching and expertise on absence, conduct, talent, and performance.
• Drive diversity, inclusion, and well-being across HR agenda.

Skills

Strong interpersonal skills

Influencing and communication skills

Strategic mindset

Problem-solving ability

Education

Degree in HR/Business or equivalent experience

Tools

Workday

Excel

PowerPoint

Visio

Job description

HR Business Lead - North West and Scotland page is loaded## HR Business Lead - North West and Scotlandlocations: Warrington, United Kingdom: Liverpool, United Kingdom: Bolton, United Kingdomtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: JR-0085266The HR Business Lead will ensure the successful implementation of the people strategy based on business priorities across our functional areas and Regional Business Units. The role is responsible for ensuring the successful translation of strategy into actionable deliverables relating to day-to-day HR activity. The role will be a key partner in developing the people agenda, championing employee engagement initiatives, and acting as an advocate for the respective business area. Developing and implementing the associated people plan, initiatives and processes, whilst building and supporting high-performing teams. Ability to build strong and influential relationships with key stakeholders. Coaching managers to improve their impact as leaders, and enabling them to resolve complex employee cases.# **We offer:**Accountabilities:* Provides the key interface across all areas of the people agenda within business areas, while collaborating alongside the HR specialist teams and ensuring close collaboration with HR Services* Be responsible for all Employee Relations case management processes for the respective regional teams.* Advise and upskill people managers in HR-related matters in order to sustain good employee relations and provide coaching and expertise on absence, conduct, talent and performance matters.* Ensure HR strategic projects are implemented, understood and embedded* Provides employee and business insights on people-related topics and define the appropriate people plans* Takes ownership for the respective headcount and people costs for the business area, providing data and insight to support the development of the HR budget and workforce planning* Leverages expertise and data insights across the HR specialist teams and drives to solve end-to-end problems* Drives diversity and inclusion, well-being and culture across the HR agenda of the business areas* Applying change management expertise to ensure that organisational changes are planned and implemented in a way that applies best practice.* Analyse and advise on people metrics to prioritise areas of focus and use insights to improve our HR service and inform next steps* Develop and maintain and understanding of the key business issues within assigned area, its strategies, ways of working and provide proactive support and advice on policies, practices and processes* Mediate and learn lessons from complex case management activities* Work with other HR teams to design, deliver and review services and projects that are part of the employee lifecycle and help continue to make KION IT’S A great place to work* Apply feedback, experience and knowledge of wider market changes to update and maintain people policies and processes to ensure that we can achieve HR and business goals and mitigate people-related risks.* Support the business with activities relating to employee experience and engagement including action planning# **Tasks and Qualifications:**Competencies, Experience, Qualifications: Degree in HR/Business related or equivalent experience* Strong interpersonal, influencing and communication skills with the ability to form successful working relationships quickly and across all levels* Strategic mindset combined with strong execution skills and critical thinking with excellent learning agility* Adaptability with the confidence to share ideas and propose solutions to senior-level stakeholders* Experience of working within a sales/service or engineering environment* Strong experience of employee relations and employment law including trade unions* Continuous improvement mindset; experience in improving ways of working and processes* Good system knowledge – workday, excel, powerpoint, Visio etc* Ability to problem solve and take learning from every challenge**Linde Material Handling** is a leading global manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse trucks, and a provider of intralogistics solutions and services. As an innovation leader, we deliver progressive products and tailored solutions, which meet all individual requirements that an application or company may have.We are represented in more than 100 countries worldwide with our own branches. The company’s international network includes production and assembly plants in Germany, France, the Czech Republic, the USA, and China as well as more than 700 sales and service locations. Around the world, we have some 13,000 people working passionately on holistic intralogistics solutions, to help boost our customers’ performance in the long term.Linde is part of the KION Group, which is the largest manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse trucks in Europe, measured by units. Within the KION Group, we are helping to shape the future together with our strong brands Linde, STILL and Dematic and represent the very best our industry has to offer. The KION Group is a global enterprise made up of more than 42,000 employees in more than 100 countries.**Our culture is shaped by the shared values of the KION Group: integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence.**