Overview

Job title: Interim Head of HR (4-6 months FTC)

Location: Gatwick (hybrid) working 2 days per week in the office

Salary between £70,000 - £100,000 depending on experience + car allowance + potential bonus + generous pension scheme + 12 flexible days on top of 25 day holiday entitlement + 2 paid volunteering days + other fantastic benefits!

This is a fixed term full time opportunity; please speak to us about what flexibility means to you as we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs.

What you will do – you will join as aHead of HR on a 4 to 6 months fixed term contract, partnering strategically and operationally with two business categories, driving the people agenda and leading complex change projects. You will oversee people processes to ensure the organisation has the necessary critical capabilities and foster the ongoing development of talent for key roles.

A day in the life of a Head of HR…

This position offers a unique opportunity to be a strategic advisor to the UK business category leadership teams. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will enable our business categories to deliver their full potential and be fit for the future by driving strategic and operational people initiatives. You will:

• Lead all HR practices, providing an employee-oriented high performance culture emphasising quality, productivity, goal attainment, and empowerment.
• Lead and facilitate transformational change programmes.
• Act as a talent expert, understand the workforce plan, drive skill development and identify talent for roles.
• Work closely with the wider HR teams across the Ulrich 3 box model to support and deliver for the business areas.

What will make you successful?

As the successful candidate, you will bring extensive HR and complex change management experience, with the ability to navigate a complex matrix organisation. You will have a proven track record as a strategic HR professional within a senior leadership team, contributing to the broader business agenda. Your collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills are key, complemented by a commercial understanding of the business. Resilience and adaptability in ambiguous environments will help you navigate stakeholders toward positive solutions.

You’ll also be able to demonstrate previous experience of:

• Developing and coaching senior leaders to deliver in a high performing team environment.
• Achieving results through influencing, communication and collaboration.
• Leading and managing complex change using organisation design, development and business transformation techniques.
• Experience in employee/labour relations.
• FMCG experience would be desirable.

What you need to know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working, 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a focus on personal development and growth.

We will be considering candidates as they apply and may close job advertisements early if we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers and our consumers. Championing diversity and inclusion is important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during the candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken!