Senior Human Resources Business Partner

As our new Senior HR Business Partner, you’ll provide a professional generalist HR service to all departments within the UK, Ireland, Poland, Sweden, Germany, Netherland acting as a pragmatic and solution orientated business partner.

This role will incorporate supporting organisation design, resourcing, employee relations, payroll interface with our external provider, reward, as well as providing advice and assistance to management colleagues and staff on more complex Human Resources matters.

Requirement to be onsite five days per week at our Wollaston HQ.

Some of your key responsibilities:

• Provide support and guidance in delivering comprehensive and solution orientated advice to managers on all HR matters.
• Develop the HR capability, people management competence, professionalism and consistency of approach of line managers with support of the L&D team and the Leadership Competency Framework.
• Support and guide the HR Advisor in advising business leaders on appropriate HR solutions including advice and guidance on all performance management issues, managing long term health and taking the lead on more complex issues.
• Ensuring compliance with UK and European employment legislation and HR best practice.
• Engaging with colleague representative groups on employment and policy matters.

What do I need to be successful in this role?

• Experience in delivering performance management, budgeting, workforce planning, project and change management in an international context.
• Very sound knowledge of UK employment law – additional European countries also very beneficial.
• A track record of coaching, mentoring and influencing at a management level.
• Ability to be onsite five days per week.
• CIPD qualified.
• You are an effective relationship builder at a senior level, both internally and externally.

What’s in it for me?

• A competitive salary alongside inclusion into our company bonus scheme. Our Group Staff Bonus & Profit Performance Pay bonus scheme reinforces the Scott Bader principle of working together for a common goal and sharing in our successes.
• Enhanced employer pension contribution whereby Scott Bader will contribute a maximum of 2x your contribution, up to a maximum of 10%.
• Private medical insurance alongside a host of further discounts and employee benefit schemes
• 25 days annual leave entitlement plus Bank Holidays – We also offer the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 day’s annual leave in case you need a couple of extra days.
• We offer all our employees one full day per year to complete volunteering work of your choice which is fully paid. Alongside this, if you are thinking about fundraising for your favorite charity or local community event, we will happily match the funds that you have raised up to a maximum of £1000 in any one year.
• Our Head Office sits within 44 acres of Northamptonshire countryside, nestled within the village of Wollaston. Access to free onsite car parking, electric car charging points, discounted cafeteria and even an onsite swimming pool.

Who are Scott Bader?

Scott Bader is an employee-owned global manufacturer of advanced composites, structural adhesives and functional polymers. Established in 1921, we have a century of expertise in manufacturing high-quality, innovative products for a variety of markets around the world. Scott Bader now employs 800 people across 7 manufacturing sites and 18 offices worldwide.

We are committed to expanding our global reach, with recent ventures including North America, India, Japan and Australia, while continuing to build on our reputation for innovation, outstanding quality and technical expertise.

Scott Bader is different to most other companies. Our business is based on the simple principle of maintaining a balance between our social purpose and business needs. In 1951 we became the first UK company to hold a Common Ownership Certificate when the Bader family handed over their shares to The Scott Bader Commonwealth Limited – in simple terms, this means that Scott Bader colleagues own and are responsible for the success and overall wellbeing of the company.

Diversity & Inclusion

Our aim is to create an environment that is welcoming to all people, and ensures we treat each other and customers with respect. We appreciate different and fresh ways of thinking, encouraging innovation where colleagues feel they can express their views freely, and create a working atmosphere in which everyone is able to deliver a high-quality service.