Established in 2013, Weybourne manages investments and provides financial and other professional support to a High Net Worth family, their estates, and business interests. The latter covers a wide range of sectors, including farming, aviation, financial investments, commercial and residential property, music and several others. We currently have a team of around 65 employees, whose roles cover accountancy, financial control, tax and treasury, property and investment management, security, risk, and HR based in the both the UK and Singapore (where the Group Head Office is located).

We are headquartered in Singapore with offices in the United Kingdom in Malmesbury and London.  The role will require regular coordination across the offices with occasional travel to other group locations.

This is a truly generalist HR team consisting of a HR & Operations Director and HR Assistant as well as a wider HR team who sit within the group. The team supports a diverse range of businesses owned by the family including an investment arm, transport companies, estate management and smaller businesses in, for example, retail and music. Employee numbers total approximately 400 across 16 different entities of varying sizes. The HR team support, to varying degrees across the full HR lifecycle including recruitment, reward, Learning and Development and Employee Relations.

Reporting to the HR & Operations Director the successful candidate will be the first point of contact for Senior Managers and own the HR function with the oversight and guidance of the HR & Operations Director. The role will provide operational and project support across the portfolio of businesses to senior stakeholders. The role has a strong operational focus and requires someone to be actively involved in organisation change and HR improvement activities, along with distinct projects to own. The Senior HR Manager will manage several external suppliers that we partner with including payroll and our benefits provision. There is constant change across the portfolio and the Senior HR Manager needs to be able to deputise for the HR & Operations Director and have experience dealing with senior stakeholders. The role will have ownership to deliver across the full remit of HR.

Requirements

• Develop effective on-going relationships with key customers across the portfolio. Establishing self as a credible, responding to queries directly and influencing managers to follow a best practice approach wherever possible.
• Manage the HR Assistant to deliver expert operational HR support.
• Maintain, actively review and refine our HR policies and processes, ensuring they support the organisation’s culture.
• Coach, train and challenge managers on their approach to people issues, advising them on best practice approaches.
• Ownership of annual performance processes.
• Operate as HR lead in the performance management of individuals and other employee relations situations (e.g. capability concerns, disciplinary scenarios, grievances).
• Support the HR & Operations Director in the planning and implementation of organisational change, HR projects and initiatives that support the people strategy and individual business plans.
• Manage our Group benefits, including the management and governance of our Pensions scheme and regular liaison with the other Group’s Reward team.
• Oversee the HR side of the payroll process, liaising with payroll providers to ensure SLAs are met, including our internal finance team.
• Produce HR metrics for presentation at Senior Exec level.
• Manage our applicant tracking system and support hiring managers with recruitment for their team.
• Compensation - Oversee the delivery of all compensation administration, and provide expertise and advice on salary guidelines, external pay practices and market benchmarking.
• Talent Development – Drive the talent review process, working with managers to create individual development and succession plans to improve the capability of the teams.
• Employee engagement lead including surveying and engagement measures.
• Manage our employee communications, including the company intranet .
• Commitment to developing yourself within your role – undergoing training where necessary.
• Proactively promoting and maintaining high standards work – taking initiative to resolve and/or draw attention to areas that don’t meet required standards or any issues that arise.
• Conduct yourself in line with the Weybourne Values.
• Any other ad hoc duties.

• Strong generalist HR experience.
• Skilled in providing pragmatic, tailored HR advice.
• Experience of supporting managers with a range of employee relations issues (absence, disciplinary and grievance).
• Experience of analysing data and providing management information.
• Reward experience.
• Degree calibre.
• CIPD qualified.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Computer literate.
• Confident communication skills, with the ability to interact with individuals from a range of backgrounds.
• Proactive and flexible approach to work.
• Willing to take responsibility and ownership for tasks.
• Strong sense of discretion, appreciating the confidentiality of the work.
• Keen to suggest improvements to current ways of working.
• Ability to work autonomously when required, whilst still possessing strong teamwork skills.

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus scheme.
• Private medical and dental cover.
• Pension scheme.
• Life assurance.
• 27 day holiday (plus bank holidays).
• Campus perks including free coffee, free lunch, free fruit, free gym access, free parking, free onsite hair styling and free coach travel from key locations in Bath, Bristol, Swindon and Chippenham.
• GymFlex scheme (discounted gym memberships payable via salary deduction each month).
• Digital concierge service.
• Charitable Giving via payroll (Give as You Earn).
• Backup care support.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Electric vehicle scheme.
• Free annual flu jab.
• Free eye test.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Access to product discounts.