Job Description

HR Director, UK & Ireland

Location – Walton Oaks

Your Job

Kimberly-Clark is focused on creating Better Care for a Better World and that takes a certain kind of person who cares about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In the Human Resources Director, UK & Ireland (HRD, UK&I) role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. This is a great opportunity to utilize your HR depth and serve as a key member of the UK&I leadership team.

The HRD, UK&I is a trusted HR advisor to business leaders and is in a position of influence on key strategic business matters across the organization. These matters include labour relations, inclusion and diversity, organisational capability and effectiveness, talent acquisition, succession, compensation and engagement.

Having prior experience and a proven track record of operating within a matrix environment and delivering exception results within HR, you will be expected to have a clear understanding of what needs to change to meet future business priorities (both planned and unplanned).

The HRD, UK&I reports to the Vice President, HR EMEA and will leverage the broader EMEA HR matrix to access the regional shared services including Talent Acquisition, Compensation and Benefits and Talent Management.

The successful candidate will demonstrate significant leadership and executive potential to achieve further career growth in Kimberly-Clark.

What is it like to work at Kimberly-Clark?

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, 25% of people in the world use Kimberly-Clark products every day.

The identity of each and every one of our employees makes us who we are and makes our global company of over 40,000-plus employees stronger because of it. We are in the business of providing better care for a better world, for everyone, everywhere. At Kimberly-Clark treating individuals with respect is the way we do business and the way we lead our industry and our world. We’re building an organisation that looks and thinks like our customers around the world and are searching for talented people with different perspectives and varied backgrounds. People like you. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark; you just need to join us!

About You

As a person you will be a key member of the UK Consumer BU leadership team and EMEA HRLT, focused on developing and implementing people strategy that drives UK&I organisational success, aligned to EMEA and Global plans. You will lead a HR team of 7 HR Business Partners, coach and develop UK senior leaders and HR team members and partner with EMEA and Global CoEs to ensure a seamless, holistic approach to people activities in the UK.

You will lead the business labour strategy and ongoing negotiations and relationship with the Barrow and Northfleet collective bargaining unit, partnering with the Unite National Officer so previous union experience will be required in this position. You will be required to develop a robust, risk-managed workforce plan to meet the commercial needs of the business, balanced with the changing profile and expectations of a modern workforce and embed a data-driven, HR operator mindset to leverage metrics and processes to inform HR delivery and stakeholder satisfaction

Providing organisation development and effectiveness strategies and solutions which respond to a dynamic and evolving business organization is a key part of this role. You will proactively identify the capabilities needed to enable the UK&I commercial strategy and liaise with CoEs and leadership to initiate interventions to address gaps. You will execute global talent strategies and solutions for UK talent focused on attracting, developing and retaining talent.

• CIPD preferred with progressive HR experience with a focus on leading a generalist HR function

• HR depth in organizational development and effectiveness strategies; and the ability to align HR initiatives to achieving commercial goals

• Business acumen, presence and creditability as a leadership coach to regional & global leaders as well as to the broader HR organization

• Experience executing through a large matrix organisation / indirect teams

• Significant cultural change/transformation experience

• Demonstrated competence in supporting and facilitating the day-to-day HR needs of a diverse population: employee relations, organizational development, coaching, training and development and an understanding of compensation and benefits

• Experience in FMCG or similar industry, including exposure to a manufacturing environment (preferred)

• Strong knowledge of legal, employment issues and UK employment legislation

• Proven experience successfully managing labour relations and working with Unions while developing a collaborative culture and working environment

Total Benefits

We offer competitive pay and benefits to employees and reward excellence and performance. Our belief in promoting a healthy work-life balance drives us to support our employees’ total well-being, offering comprehensive benefits not limited to gym memberships, private medical insurance, dental cover, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, critical illness cover, travel insurance and a market leading defined contribution pension scheme.

Certain benefits, such as flexible work schedules and parental leave, can be tailored to meet specific individual needs, giving our employees the flexibility to manage their commitments inside and outside of work. We are proud to be rated as a top 100 workplace for working mothers for two years in a row.

To Be Considered

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And finally, the small print….

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this role. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Kimberly-Clark is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

KC is a sponsor of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation Good Recruitment Campaign

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