HR Manager

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Salary range: £41,139 to £49,367. Final salary dependent on skills and experience.

We have a new opportunity for a highly-skilled and professional HR Manager to join our busy HR team.

About the Role:

Sitting within our HR Business Partnering team, you will support, guide and advise managers on a wide range of people management challenges (employee relations, employment law, people management, HR policies and procedures). You will coach managers to improve their managerial, leadership and communication skills, working collaboratively to mitigate risks and implement solutions.

You will also work collaboratively with your wider HR team colleagues to ensure a joined-up approach to providing responsive and effective HR advice. Sharing knowledge and experience within the HR team, to encourage development and ensure a collaborative and unified approach is vitally important. 

You will be responsible for:

• Act as a first point of contact for advisory level queries; providing effective and adaptive advice.
• Working collaboratively with the HR Advisor, and wider HR team colleagues to ensure a joined-up approach to providing responsive and effective HR advice.
• Managing an ER caseload including supporting managers through ER meetings; ensuring they understanding the appropriate policies and supporting the achievement of operational objectives. Escalating particularly complex or contentious cases where appropriate.
• Where appropriate, provide mediation between conflicting internal parties, providing objective sensitive support and seeking to resolve difficulties and minimise impact to the individuals concerned, other colleagues and the institute.
• To regularly contribute to the review and development of HR Policies and procedures, engaging stakeholders where appropriate and ensuring that they are fit for purpose and in line with best practice.
• To contribute to and oversee project work as directed by the HR Lead Partner for their area and/or the Head of HR Business Partnering.

About you:

Skills and Experience

• Experience of providing HR/generalist advice and guidance to all levels of staff and management in a professional or a technical environment.
• Proven ability to mediate in difficult emotionally charged conflict situations and ability to recognise when different approaches are required to find solutions
• Proficiency in employment law, Employee relations and performance management techniques
• Proven Coaching skills
• Well-developed IT skills and experience of interpreting reports/data
• Qualified to Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development [CIPD] standard either through training or experience.

Personal Attributes:

• Strong attention to detail
• Demonstrable excellent customer service skills and a flexible pragmatic approach
• Team working skills, and an ability to deliver project outcomes
• Well-developed communication skills and the ability to clearly present ideas and solutions; to listen, analyse and respond effectively in complex and difficult situations and influence and persuade as appropriate. 
• Ability to work under pressure and manage a heavy workload of potentially contentious casework
• Demonstrable ability to use a flexible and pragmatic approach to problem-solving

Closing date: Tuesday 11 April 2023

In addition to a hybrid working approach and flexible working we will equally consider applications from those looking to work a shorter week of 30 hours per week (full time hours 37 p/w).

Application Process:

Please include a cover letter with your application detailing where you meet the criteria of the role, including essential skills.

For informal enquiries about the role, or to discuss the application process, please contact: Sarah Gladwin (sg29@sanger.ac.uk).

Working at Wellcome Sanger:

Our flexible-hybrid working environment is designed to support a healthy work-life balance. This means you can work flexibly with a combination of working from home, and working from our Campus to allow you to focus on being productive and part of the team while enjoying the benefits of working flexibly.

We aim to attract, recruit, retain and develop talent from the widest possible talent pool, thereby gaining insight and access to different markets to generate a greater impact on the world. We have a supportive culture with the following staff networks, LGBTQ+, Parents and Carers and Race Equity to bring people together to share experiences, offer specific support and development opportunities and raise awareness. The networks are also a place for allies to provide support to others.

We want our people to be whoever they want to be because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work. That’s why we’re committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at Sanger Institute. We will consider all individuals without discrimination and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, where everyone can thrive.

Our Benefits:

We are proud to deliver an awarding campus-wide employee wellbeing strategy and programme. The importance of good health and adopting a healthier lifestyle and the commitment to reduce work-related stress is strongly acknowledged and recognised at Sanger Institute.