HR / People Manager (CIPD)

TITLE: HR / People Manager (CIPD)

Location: Central London

Salary: Up to £55,000 + excellent benefits

The Company

This is an exciting opportunity to join a consultancy firm in London. They work for various high-profile international corporate clients and help them stay ahead of general business trends and therefore remain both relevant and profitable. It’s a fast-moving environment where multilingual teams work on specialist projects producing detailed reports which are used as part of the armoury to help their clients make sound business decisions. Their reports are always based on well curated and analysed findings.

The role:

You will be working with the senior team in order to delivery HR strategy that supports business growth. This is a classic full-cycle HR role in which you will be assisted by an Office Manager.

In house recruitment & retention

• Creating and checking all current and new detailed job descriptions
• Conducting all candidate screenings from first through to second interviews and then job offers, salary reviews and salary-related negotiations
• Conducting new-joiner inductions
• Managing exit interviews

Reporting

• Liaising with the management team in order to work out recruitment strategies
• Reporting on recruitment forecasts, time-frames
• Understand the competition and undertaking salary surveys

Manage an HR budget

• Liaising with recruitment agencies, job boards and finding new sources of talent
• Communicating with benefits providers and reviewing their services
• Review staff Recognition Programmes

Devising new engagement and retention plans

• Devising best-in-class engagement and retention plans

Learning + Development

• Identifying and addressing staff skills shortages
• Develop exciting training and development strategies and courses with L+D consultancies

Undertake succession planning

• Ensuing this company becomes the employer of choice in its sector
• Liaising with a legal team (external providers) as well as Directors
• Communicating with fee earning in-house Consultants
• Dealing with SSP and SMP and Paternity leave etc

Requirements

• Generalist HR background
• CIPD qualified (Level 5 ideally)