# Divisional HR Lead, 12 month FTC

**Company**: Davies
**Location**: Lostock, Bolton
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Insurance

**Apply**: https://davies.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/befe557d-94c7-4aa4-9d9d-cf6a877b5dc4?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ed89a452-f72

## Description

As Divisional HR Lead, you'll play an integral role in creating a high-performing partnering service that delivers real impact. It's a chance to develop every aspect of HR, including policy and processes, employee relations, organisational design, M&A, and colleague engagement.

Together, you and your team will shape an HR strategic service that meets Davies UK&I's evolving needs. Leading an HR Business Partnering team, you'll provide client-responsive, cost-effective HR solutions, as well as professional HR guidance and support.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Develop and own the Davies UK&I HR Partnering and people change agenda, translating HR change requirements into tangible plans and activity to improve the colleague experience, meet business needs, and deliver the strategic plan.

- Collaborate with HR Operations to service colleagues, senior leaders, M&A team, Finance, and business transformation, ensuring all people change needs are agreed and delivered.

- Lead, motivate, and engage the HR Partnering team, managing performance and development, providing expertise, coaching, and ensuring the delivery of a high-quality service.

- Lead and ensure delivery of complex and high-profile HR change initiatives across Davies UK&I, such as Organisational Design, Mergers & Acquisitions, and TUPE transfers.

- Ensure a consistent and quality approach is in place for reporting and updating the business with milestones and progress of HR Plans.

- Maintain industry knowledge and expertise, keeping abreast of HR change, strategic business partnering, and talent acquisition best practice.

- Manage budget, ensuring effective financial planning and forecasting takes place to deliver the HR Business Partnering.

- Partner with the COO and manage senior stakeholders effectively, influencing, negotiating, and building constructive working relationships.

- Support the Chief Human Resources Officer with the development of the HR Strategy and work collaboratively with the Davies UK&I HR leadership team.

**Skills, Knowledge & Expertise:**

- Seasoned HR business partnering experience within complex and growth organisations.

- Confident in supporting complex employee relation cases and tribunals.

- Exceptional stakeholder management skills; resilient in the face of challenges.

- Ability to design and develop both HR employees and strategies.

- Experience in owning and supporting ongoing employee experience projects.

- Translating strategy into actionable items.

- M&A experience advantageous.

- Previous experience in a law firm or legal entity within a larger organisation, beneficial.

- Experience of working with Irish entities and respective HR nuances, highly advantageous.

## Skills

### Required
- HR business partnering
- employee relations
- organisational design
- M&A
- budget management
- stakeholder management

### Nice to have
- M&A experience
- law firm experience
- Irish entities experience

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