HR Growth Partner

HR Growth Partner

Reports to: Senior HR Growth Partner

Annual Salary: £55,000

Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm (part-time considered) office based, however, you may be required to travel to other locations (subject to business needs)

Holidays: 25 days + bank hols (Additional Holidays for length of service)

Pension Scheme: Salary sacrifice pension scheme 5% employee and 5% employer contribution

Death in Service: 3x annual salary

EAP: Help@Hand

Howarths is an award-winning 2nd generation family run business with an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and results driven Growth Partner, to join our HR Growth Team.

We are a team of specialist Employment Law, HR and Health and Safety advisors that work with over 600 client companies throughout England, on a fixed fee annual contract basis. We love what we do and we genuinely want to add value to our SME client base.

The ideal candidate will focus on ensuring we deliver an exceptional client experience, along with providing top class strategic advice through telephone, email and face to face meetings.

We are an ambitious company with a brilliant track record of year-on-year growth, profitability and development. We place significance on values such as graft, together, heart and grit. These core principles run right through our business and as a result, in all our dealings with clients. Our vision is to grow year on year, however we want to do this in the right way, maintaining our values and adding stability to the business. Building a great reputation is paramount and something that has been key to our business strategy from day one. We have been in business 21 years and our success is built on hard work, collaboration, and a passion for excellence.

As an employer we value the benefits of a good work life balance and promote a positive working environment. We genuinely care about each member of our team and their contribution to the business and our clients.

Equally, we have made a commitment to our community and set-up our own charity The Howarth Foundation, supporting people who have been homeless or are at the risk of becoming homeless in Leeds and Kirklees, to take the next step back into employment. Up to 10% of our profits are donated to the charity each year.

THE ROLE

• Design, lead and deliver bespoke, strategic people strategies in conjunction with and on behalf of client organisations and their board of directors and SLT.

• Carryout HR Audits for our SME client base and present findings to establish the current state of play in terms of compliance, culture and growth opportunities.
• Working with SMEs, providing direction and mentoring to the board of directors and SLT on the implementation of effective HR strategies that will drive performance and improve profit.
• To act as the dedicated HR Growth Partner with responsibility for own client base.
• Write and deliver effective management training on various HR topics, covering the breadth of the employee lifecycle.
• Provide efficient and effective HR advice to client companies including recruitment, performance management, discipline and grievance, absence management, employee engagement and salary and pay-grading etc.
• Build strong relationship with client companies and develop a good understanding of their business, enabling you to add value to their bottom line by offering relevant proactive HR services.
• Coordinate and conduct HR investigations including preparing witness statements, on behalf of clients.
• To conduct and chair formal HR hearings / meetings on behalf of clients.
• Support clients with implementing changes to company structure (in conjunction with employment law team).
• Deliver coaching programs to senior leaders.
• Contribute towards departments financial targets.
• To assist in attracting and retaining clients by providing an excellent client experience in all client interactions (email, telephone, face to face).
• To ensure all advice and support provided to clients is appropriately documented, in accordance with Howarths systems.
• Engage with and promote Howarths core values and represent Howarths in a professional manner at all times.

THE CANDIDATE

The successful candidate for the position of HR Growth Partner will possess the following qualifications, experience and qualities:

Qualification and Experience:

• Excellent communicator (written, verbal and listening)
• Ability to communicate in a professional manner whilst adopting Howarths family values
• Effective time management/organisational skills
• Strong work ethic and reliability
• Strong commercial judgement
• Rationale thinker
• Ability to use own initiative
• Team player
• Strong influencing and coaching skills
• Effective negotiation skills
• Ability to lead, coach and motivate a team
• Ability to lead and manage change
• Strong emotional intelligence
• Performance management and mentoring experience
• Ability to build and maintain trusted and effective client relationships
• Adaptability and flexibility with day to day tasks and workloads
• Working to multiple deadlines and under pressure
• Excellent presentation skills

Personal qualities:

• Graft: Ownership, flexibility, dedicated and pragmatic.
• Together: Communication, respect, collaboration and compassion.
• Heart: Understanding, empathy, joy, and integrity.
• Grit: Resilience, courage, enthusiasm and proactive.

How to apply

If you’re ready to join a HR team that turns exceptional service into long-term partnerships, we’d love to hear from you!

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