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Head of HR

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Job Introduction

Are you an experienced HR Professional? Are you a ‘completer finisher’ who is determined and driven to deliver? Are you a strategic thinker who focusses on the bigger picture?

We have a great opportunity for an experienced HR Professional to join Sodexo.

Reporting into the HR Director for Corporate Services UK&I , you will be responsible for all HR delivery across Ireland and Northern Ireland. You will be a partner to the CEO, enabling Sodexo performance through high quality HR service delivery within the Country. You will contribute to HR Services leadership and building the performance of the Country Leadership Committee.

This role will involve travel across the country and you will have no fixed place of work.

 

Role Responsibility

  • Managing the multiple interfaces with Segments/Service Operations/Functions to ensure their HR needs are fully understood and met in the country
  • Supporting HR transformation in the country, to enhance consistency, quality and cost efficiency of HR service delivery
  • Contributing to the achievement of the Country’s strategic objectives, priorities and HR & Country Strategy
  • Having responsibility for HR in the country at regional level spanning more than 1,500 employees operating in complex and challenging environments
  • Implementing HR strategic priorities at regional level, ensuring the needs of the segment are met whilst maintaining full alignment with Group HR strategic priorities & policies
  • Working with the HRD to ensure timely implementation of talent processes to ensure development in the country, including the establishment of succession and workforce plans

The Ideal Candidate

  • Operational HR experience and expertise- able to manage service delivery across the spectrum of HR activities.
  • Consulting and stakeholder management skills – able to relationship manage a wide group of stakeholders often with divergent needs and interests and ensure plans for the department can coalesce around those needs.
  • Strategising - Ability to devise - from a business strategy - a strategy and plan for capability development which considers how capabilities can be best ‘acquired’ and/or ‘developed’.
  • Planning and organising – able to set an agenda and keep a balance between ensuring the overall departmental plan is strategically aligned with the need to ensure that detailed plans are in place and are well tracked to ensure operational delivery for the business.  On a personal level needs to be able to flex one’s own priorities and allocation of time and effort over a large, broad and changeable set of stakeholder requirements.
  • Resource management – particularly budgetary – can make intelligent judgement about the allocation of human and financial resources across the business and over time.
  • Team leadership –to engage the ‘hearts and minds’ of the team to achieve the HR and country strategies and to ensure that the allocation of work draws upon people’s strengths but also seeks to develop them personally and professionally.

Desirable

  • Masters or equivalent qualification in HR or full membership of the CIPD
  • Proven technical skills in process consulting, facilitation, training design/delivery, evaluation
  • Proven experience in cultural transformation and / or change management at scale

Package Description

£Competitive - dependent on experience, bonus, flex fund, car/car allowance, 25 days holiday

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process

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