HR Manager

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

The Role

The HR Manager will provide comprehensive support to the Corporate HR Function, ensuring alignment with key strategic objectives. This position aims to establish the UK HR team as a highly efficient, valued, and respected resource for both managers and employees. The HR Manager will support a diverse, multi-divisional business that includes operational, manufacturing, customer service, and commercial functions across multiple sites.

Position Summary

In this role, the HR manager will:

• Serve as a trusted advisor to business and functional leaders, providing expert consultation and actionable insights in the areas of:
  • Talent Management
  • Organizational Development
  • Performance Management
  • Career Development
  • Employee Relations
  • Compensation Planning
  • Change Management
  • Change Leadership
• Leverage all areas of the HR Model (HR Business Partners, Field HR, Platforms, Colleague Services and Technologies) to enhance collaboration and improve the colleague experience
• Provide exceptional advisory capabilities and partnership to the business, enabling strategies to improve the overall work experience through enhancing role model Leadership capabilities
• Utilise country, regional and site Talent Plans to accelerate the Company’s path to best-in-class representation
• Act as a change agent and support key initiatives at site, regional and country levels, operating in a sophisticated and collaborative structure
• Leverage HR & Management Information to identify trends and risks, supporting business leadership in managing diversity, attraction, retention, career development, performance, engagement and compliance
• Adopt the deployment strategy by working across sites and regions, aligning with the overall UK Strategy

Leadership Responsibilities

Develop a successful team by:

• Attracting, hiring, and developing exceptional, diverse talent who will autonomously excel in the company culture
• Setting clear performance expectations and holding your team & others accountable for achieving desired results
• Defining and employing performance management and retention strategies by providing open and timely feedback to ensure performance improvement, team stability and focus
• Encouraging suggestions for improvement and recognizing exceptional performance
• Engaging in career discussions and ensuring each colleague has a meaningful career development plan

Create a Successful Work Environment by:

• Creating an environment where individuals feel valued and different views are encouraged and respected
• Cultivating a culture where your team feel physically and emotionally safe and can raise difficult issues
• Promoting a culture of learning and information sharing
• Empowering and encouraging team members to take thoughtful risks
• Assessing local environments to understand negative drivers (ex. turnover, morale, productivity) and implements remediation plans as appropriate
• Understands root cause of targeted organizational challenges and removes barriers to success

Move Strategy to Action by:

• Aligning work priorities to business, functional and company goals
• Communicating a clear plan and motivating the team to achieve goals and defined success metrics
• Regularly reviewing team’s priorities. Have the courage to prioritise the critical few and stop on/low-value-added work
• Prioritising and deploying resources effectively

Experience, skills & abilities required

• Consistently demonstrates our 4i Values of Integrity, Intensity, Innovation & Involvement
• Puts the Customer First

• Thinks and acts with a customer-centric approach to deliver exceptional customer experience
• Prioritizes customer requirements and is dedicated to meeting or exceeding customer expectations
• Continuously improves internal processes to create new value for the customer
• Builds and upholds successful customer relationships (internal and/or external)

• Owns Their Results

• Takes personal accountability for decisions and actions, and always exercises good judgement
• Does not make excuses for poor performance, is open about what is not working and what needs to be done to fix it
• Takes personal ownership for adherence to safety, compliance, quality, and cyber security
• Consistently applies good judgement and maintains commitment to Thermo Fisher Scientific ethics and values

• Finds a Better Way Every Day
• Is intellectually curious and adopts continuous improvement, challenging the status quo. Introduces and proactively seeks out new insights and solutions to strengthen performance
• Role model the use of Practical Process Improvement (PPI) to improve processes
• Holds self and others accountable to build PPI capability and instill a continuous improvement culture
• Ensures standard methodologies and lessons learned are adopted

• Ideally CIPD Qualified or equivalent with significant HR Generalist experience operational and commercial environments;
• Successful in working within a sophisticated matrixed organisation;
• Good general knowledge of all key aspects of UK employment law;
• Validated interpersonal, communication and presentation skills;
• Ability to work on own initiative to deliver projects and implement new initiatives;
• Ability to research, analyse and reason logically within tight and conflicting time frames;
• Ability to adopt and handle change in a fast-paced environment handling high levels of ambiguity at times;
• Ability to navigate matrix structures and organisational relationships;
• Confident in engaging and collaborating with managers and business leaders;
• Travel to other Thermo Fisher Scientific sites may be required within the UK.