HR Compliance and Services Manager - Northampton

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HR Compliance and Services Manager

Are you an experienced HR Generalist looking for a new and challenging role for 2025, a role where you can bring your own creativity and knowledge, answered yes?, then look no further. Due to our exciting growth plans since becoming a Plc business, we have restructured our Shared Services team and have created a brand new role - HR Compliance and Services Manager.

The Role

Reporting into our Shared Service Delivery Manager, you will be designing and developing HR compliance and audit framework to manage risk from a PLC and operational perspective, to ensure effective completion and compliance with legal requirements. You'll be managing a well established, high performing team that manages upcoming changes to legislation to ensure our policies and processes are compliant.

Principle Accountabilities:

• You will lead, motivate and inspire a well established administration team and take a proactive role in performance, career development and ensuring succession plans are in place.
• You'll ensure delivery of high-performance standards and identify team efficiencies and process improvements. You'll be developing our HRMI team to produce dashboards and insights.
• You'll have experience of designing and managing a HR compliance framework which identifies and mitigates risk from a compliance and audit perspective with regular monitoring and reporting.
• You'll be able to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels and be able to provide advice and guidance to standards, processes and tools.
• Manage upcoming changes to legislation to ensure our policies and processes are compliant and enable reporting to the relevant committees

We're a team. And teams work best together when they know and respect one another. Listen and learn from one another. So we offer a hybrid working model with three days a week based in our Northampton offices. Giving you the support you need to do well at work, and the flexibility to make life work for you.

We're an award-winning business with an open, safe environment where people can thrive. With the freedom to be themselves, it's a place where we'll ask for your ideas, listen to your opinions and value the contributions you make. Chances are you've never experienced anything quite like our culture.

What are we looking for?

• A visionary leader in a HR or payroll environment, you will be highly motivated, innovative, collaborative and be able to work in a fast paced environment. You will bring experience of people management through coaching and empathetic leadership, alongside a strong sense of decision making and critical thinking.
• To succeed within this role, you will need to evidence experience of managing audits across various processes and writing or developing operating procedures for efficiency. You'll have a proven track record in managing the risk with the audit/compliance control needed whilst balancing the impact on operational processes.
• You'll be methodical and tenacious in your approach with the willingness to get to the bottom of any issue with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• You will need to be highly organised with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities

What we can offer you.

You'll be supported by some fantastic training and development and have the opportunity to learn, grow and develop

We'll also equip you with a benefits package that includes

• Competitive salary and annual bonus
• Save-as-you-earn scheme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Colleague discount
• Discount platform including savings and cash back at numerous retailers, savings on gym membership, cycle to work scheme

Our widely recognised wellbeing strategy is something we're proud of at Wickes. As part of this, we offer a range of health and wellbeing benefits and support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, financial education & loans, and access to parental, menopause and fertility support.

About Us:

We're a down-to-earth business, and how we work is special. That's down to our unique culture. We believe in doing what's right - winning for our customers, our communities, our planet and our people. We take pride in being an open, welcoming place where everyone feels at home. Where you can be yourself, do your best work and make a positive difference every day.

We are a multi-channel retailer operating in the home improvement market. With 40 years in industry, Wickes now generates revenue in excess of £1.5Bn across 230 stores delivered by 8,000+ colleagues.

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Closing date for applications is 15th December.