Senior HR Consultant

Yaxley, Cambridgeshire
Insignis

Senior HR Consultant

Permanent

Full time

East Midlands Area (Peterborough/Northampton areas)

Competitive salaries and excellent benefits including up to one day’s paid leave each year to undertake volunteering opportunities

The Manufacturers’ Organisation Make UK

Job Purpose

As a Senior HR Consultant at MAKE UK, you will manage and deliver our HR consultancy services and training, both independently and collaboratively with our team and associate consultants. Your role involves continuous development of our HR offerings, working closely with sales colleagues and cross-functional teams to enhance our consultancy services.

Key Responsibilities

• HR Consultancy and Training: Deliver HR consultancy and training services to MAKE Legal member companies and external clients.
• Needs Analysis: Manage the needs analysis, design, delivery, validation, and evaluation of HR consultancy interventions and training.
• Client Requests: Respond to member and client requests for HR consultancy, providing advice on options, arranging meetings, and supporting proposals.
• Market Opportunities: Seek and develop opportunities to market and sell HR consultancy to meet team targets.
• Product Development: Innovate and develop HR consultancy products in line with national guidelines and requirements.
• Quality Improvement: Continuously improve the quality of MAKE Legal’s HR consultancy services and products.
• Collaboration: Work with MAKE Legal colleagues and MAKE UK teams to support
• consultancy opportunities and cross-selling.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MCIPD or demonstrable relevant professional experience.

Experience

• Proven experience in three or more areas: strategic HR, change management, learning strategy, day-to-day HR practices, HR training development and delivery.
• Extensive track record in providing HR and organisational change best practices.
• Broad understanding of organisational culture change and performance management.
• Deep understanding of current HR challenges.
• Comfortable engaging with diverse colleagues and senior clients.
• Proven project management skills.
• Skilled in developing business cases and articulating benefits.
• Experience as a senior HR professional or internal consultant in a commercial business environment.
• Proven advisory experience with business managers and stakeholders on various people issues.
• Demonstrable results or added value from HR interventions.
• Experience in reviewing HR policies, contracts, and handbooks.

Knowledge

• Broad understanding of key people issues and legislative impacts.
• Up-to-date technical knowledge and skills in HR practice.
• Understanding of the training cycle (TNA, design, delivery, validation, and evaluation).
• Knowledge of the latest HR management and training best practices.

Personal Qualities

• Ability to work autonomously and handle process ambiguity.
• Effective team player and independent worker.
• Skilled in building business relationships and self-marketing.
• Attention to detail.
• Commercial and customer focus

Other Information

Applicants must hold a full, clean driving license as the role requires regional travel and occasional travel within England and Wales.

With over 125 years of experience, Make UK is a leading provider of essential business support and a champion for manufacturing industry in the UK. Make UK has the close ear of Government and is a trusted provider of essential services for world leading manufacturing companies across the country. Everything we do is designed to inspire British manufacturers to compete, innovate and grow.

Make UK staff enjoy a good benefits package and values a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Benefits to include, but not limited to: Free parking, meal service on site, no bank holiday/weekend work, flexible hours, health cover, matched pension contributions up to 8%, and life assurance.

We are committed to supporting the Armed Forces Community and we recognise the contribution that Service personnel, both regular and reservist, veterans and military families make to our organisation and have pledged to support this by signing up to the Armed Forces Covenant.

Our Values at Make UK: Inclusivity & Diversity, Integrity, Innovation, & Collaboration