HR Director, UK, France & Export

Your role:

 

Are you a Senior HR Leader looking for the next step? We have a fantastic opportunity to join our team as an experienced HR Director for UK, France & Export.  

Reporting to the Vice President of HR - Europe, this integral role will work closely with the UK and France leadership team. You will develop and implement strategies, whilst collaborating with the Global/European teams to ensure alignment of business objectives.   You will provide strategic leadership, further developing and leading the UK & France HR team. You will lead and champion our people initiatives, driving employee engagement, recruitment, and talent management. Provide great internal stakeholder support, driving HR functional excellence and process improvement, whilst approaching new challenges with a solutions-oriented approach.

This role is a hybrid role, with travel to our UK and France sites.  We offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday, 7.5% pension, salary sacrifice schemes and much more.  

What your impact will be:

• Act as business partner advising the UK and France leadership team to achieve strategic goals.
• Ensure adherence with all compliance standards and operate with integrity at all times.
• Provide dynamic and effective leadership and day-to-day management of the department and operational activities including the effective, efficient and economic deployment of physical, financial and human resources.
• Undertake appropriate risk assessment at departmental, functional and corporate level.
• Partner with assigned business unit(s) and ensure a deep understanding of business strategy and implement high-quality HR practices within the team.
• Identify HR priorities from corporate and departmental plans, translating business requirements into effective HR practices and delivering people solutions aligned to business objectives.
• Ensure service delivery of fundamental HR processes, supported with the use of metrics, reports, and dashboards, and be a highly visible member of local leadership teams.
• Deliver key HR initiatives across the HR spectrum, including workforce planning, reorganisation actions, Trade Union and Works Council negotiations, absence management, talent acquisition and development, benefits and total rewards, Employee relations, Employee engagement, Diversity and Inclusion plans, performance management (PDP and PIP) plus HIPO identification.
   

What you'll need to succeed:

• Minimum 5 years broad and progressive experience in human resources
• Experience in manufacturing and consulting Unions or Works Councils.
• Experience in HR site / multi-site leadership.
• Extensive experience partnering with Senior Leadership and handling complex issues across multi-site and multi-function.
• Experience of operating collaboratively within a multiple country HR Team.

• Broad understanding of the technical and functional components of Human Resources, including employment law, employee relations, compliance management in a large organization, compensation, employee relations, recruitment, talent management, absence management, organizational planning, leadership development, coaching, training, engagement and building trust.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Management, or related field.
• Country recognised HR professional qualification, such as CIPD.

Our Company:
 

About JELD-WEN
 

Founded in 1960, JELD-WEN is one of the world’s largest door and window manufacturers, with more than 18,000 employees operating globally. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, JELD-WEN designs, produces and distributes an extensive range of interior and exterior doors, wood, vinyl and aluminium windows and related products for use in the new construction and repair and remodelling of residential homes and non-residential buildings. 
 

Our products and services afford us the opportunity to enter peoples’ workplaces, homes and daily lives. With this privilege comes great responsibility to ensure that the products we deliver are reliable and enrich the places and lives that they touch. We bring beauty and security to the spaces that touch our lives.

JELD-WEN is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by JELD-WEN, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. 

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