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Group HR Manager
Main purpose of the role:
The Group HR Manager will lead the people agenda across the Group, driving engagement, development, and alignment across a growing family of businesses.
This role is central to creating a connected and high-performing culture, ensuring consistent HR policies and practices, and developing people capability across manufacturing, sales, service, maintenance, and industrial project services operations.
Working closely with the UK senior leadership team, the Group HR Manager will champion a culture of engagement, accountability, and continuous improvement, ensuring every employee understands their role in delivering business success.
Primary Objectives:
Main purpose of the role:
The Group HR Manager will lead the people agenda across the Group, driving engagement, development, and alignment across a growing family of businesses.
This role is central to creating a connected and high-performing culture, ensuring consistent HR policies and practices, and developing people capability across manufacturing, sales, service, maintenance, and industrial project services operations.
Working closely with the UK senior leadership team, the Group HR Manager will champion a culture of engagement, accountability, and continuous improvement, ensuring every employee understands their role in delivering business success.
Primary Objectives:
- Drive people engagement through initiatives that strengthen communication, inclusion, recognition, and well-being across all UK businesses.
- Instil a high-performance culture that makes it easier to retain highly skilled and critical talent the business will need to fuel future business growth.
- Embed the group values locally whilst celebrating and reenergising the distinct identities of our UK businesses in their own merit.
- Execute an annual group roadmap, including pulse surveys, town halls and reward and recognition schemes.
- Develop and implement aligned HR frameworks, ensuring consistent policies, processes, and compliance with employment law across the group
- Embed accountability at all levels by reinforcing clear expectations, consistent performance management, and fair, transparent outcomes.
- Lead talent and leadership development, building capability and career growth pathways that support succession planning and business expansion.
- Partner with business leaders to align people strategies with commercial goals and create a culture that supports innovation and excellence.
- Support HR integration for new business acquisitions or group expansion, ensuring smooth transition and cultural alignment.
- Operate as a visible HR leader across multiple sites, fostering collaboration and consistency while respecting local needs.
- Design, develop and lead a team of capable, enthusiastic and practical minded HR professionals, to ensure support at each business level for employees and employers across the UK group.
- Act as the pivot between the UK and European HR senior teams, ensuring group mandates and projects are effectively managed and communicated accordingly.
- Lead and participate in projects that may not always be directly attached to the HR function, this is support a cross functional approach at SLT level.
- Begin the build of the UK academy, covering technical skills (LM, NVQ, PM), leadership continuity, and where appropriate digital upskilling.
- Create talent mobility opportunities, including cross company secondment, succession benches and apprenticeship schooling.
- Act as a mentor & coach to the UK SLT on change leadership and inclusive behaviours.
- Proven HR leadership experience across multi-site or multi-business environments.
- Strong background in employee engagement, people development, and organisational alignment.
- Skilled in driving accountability, managing change, and building trusted relationships with leadership teams.
- Sound knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.
- Excellent communication, coaching, and influencing skills.
- High mobility and flexibility to travel regularly across UK sites.
- CIPD Level 7 (Chartered) or equivalent desirable