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Description

We have a current opportunity for a HR Director on a permanent basis. The position will be based in London. For further information about this position please apply.

Our client is a specialist company that operates within the marine finance and related logistics.  There is a requirement for a new HR Director to take responsibility for all aspects of human resource management across all of the company’s 20 worldwide offices and 250 people worldwide.

The Responsibilities of the New HR Director will be:

• Recruitment of employees for new and existing vacant positions through internal and external advertising, and the use of head-hunters and agencies.
• Job design of all changed and new positions with the functional heads.
• To act as an advisor to the CEO on all people related matters.
• To design and update all reward programmes, covering salary reviews, bonuses, short and long term retention schemes.
• To ensure that reward is comparable and competition to retain and recruit the correct calibre of employees.
• To maintain the appropriate benefits in each country with annual negotiation with suppliers (Healthcare, Insurance, Pension).
• To keep a careful hand on the organisational culture across the world
• To manage the HR and marcomms budgets (total annual spend $2.1M).
• To help supervise the consistency of brand image across the world.
• To manage all the global office leases and to be aware of our exposure at all times.
• To design and develop training and development interventions for global, individual or country/function-based groups.
• To provide to the finance function all people centric costs and budgets for all departments /locations.
• To report to the board on HR matters.
• Take responsibility for design and maintenance of performance management system across the company.

The Successful Candidate will be:

• FCIPD (preferably)
• Culturally sensitive and attuned to the needs of a modern, forward thinking business
• Have wide ranging knowledge of Employment law in all employing jurisdictions.
• Familiar with the needs and requirements of an international business
• Flush with training & development experience.
• An established HR Director with a background in Financial Services and/or Logistics
• In possession of a track record of having worked with a senior management team and in particular a CEO

Summary:

This is an excellent opportunity to continue to evolve the HR function in a rapidly expanding international business, and work with the senior management team, and the CEO in particular, to help the company move forwards into the next phase of its growth.