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Chief People Officer | Board Director | Business Transformation | Culture Change

People & Talent Manager

Location: Hybrid | Type: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £50,000 per annum

Role Overview

At Hammonds, we’re on a mission to make our company a great place to work—and as People & Talent Manager, you’ll be at the centre of that transformation. This is a hands-on senior role within our newly formed People & Culture team, reporting into the Head of People Services and supporting the Head of Learning & People Experience, under the leadership of our new Chief People & Strategy Officer.

You’ll help deliver our culture transformation, lead on quarterly OKRs, and bring the Hammonds Way to life—ensuring every employee’s first 100 days is a standout experience. A core part of the role is driving the delivery of volume recruitment through RPO partners and enhancing our hiring impact through digital tools like Workvivo, Culture Amp, and AI-enabled systems.

With no direct reports, this is a role for someone who thrives on being hands-on, operationally involved, and solution-focused. You’ll work at pace, influence stakeholders, and bring real energy to shaping a forward-thinking, customer-first, data-led people function.

Why This Role Matters

• Culture First: Lead the onboarding experience that defines what it means to work at Hammonds.
• Customer-Centric: Align recruitment and onboarding efforts with a customer-first mission.
• Data-Led: Use insight and analytics to continuously improve processes and decision-making.
• Delivery Focused: With no direct reports, this is a true delivery role—you’ll be at the coalface making change happen.
• Digital Enablement: Drive modernisation and automation using new systems and tools.

Key Responsibilities:

RPO Delivery & Volume Recruitment

• Drive the delivery of RPO-led volume recruitment, ensuring partners meet performance, quality, and service-level expectations.
• Collaborate with hiring managers and the RPO to align hiring activity with workforce needs.
• Analyse data and lead continuous improvement to ensure efficient and scalable recruitment operations.

Talent Acquisition & Campaign Management

• Own the recruitment lifecycle across multiple business areas, delivering to agreed timelines and quality standards.
• Run high-impact campaigns with platforms like Indeed, managing job ad content and performance.
• Build and maintain strong talent pipelines to support long-term workforce needs.

Employer Brand & EVP

• Collaborate with Marketing to evolve and promote Hammonds’ employer brand and EVP.
• Work closely with Marketing on social recruitment marketing and employer brand visibility.
• Use feedback, analytics, and industry benchmarking to refine and target messaging.
• Lead offline brand activations and hiring events, enhancing brand awareness.

First 100 Days & Welcome Experience

• Design and improve the first 100 days onboarding experience, ensuring it’s consistent, engaging, and culture-aligned.
• Partner with the Head of Learning & People Experience to deliver a structured and impactful induction programme.
• Monitor early employee experience data and feedback to reduce early attrition.

Reward Framework Implementation

• Support the phased implementation of a new reward framework, working with People Services and senior stakeholders.
• Use benchmarking and insight to help shape fair, future-focused approaches to pay and benefits.

Workforce Planning & Succession Management

• Contribute to operational workforce planning across functions and demand forecasting.
• Help identify future capability needs and support talent mapping to strengthen internal succession and resilience.
• Support intenr takent mobikity initiatives

Digital & AI Integration

• Maximise the effectiveness of platforms like our Workvivo and CultureAmp to enhance onboarding engagement and new starter experience.
• Leverage AI-powered tools to streamline recruitment, onboarding, and reporting processes.

Hiring Manager Capability & Support:

• Design and deliver hiring mamager recruitment & onboarding training programmes
• Use data to orivide high touch service to SLT hiring managers

What You’ll Bring

• Proven track record in driving RPO delivery and managing high-volume recruitment.
• Strong experience in recruitment campaign management, including platform partnerships (e.g., Indeed).
• Confident working cross-functionally, especially with Marketing, to execute brand-aligned recruitment.
• Knowledge of onboarding and induction best practices, with a focus on engagement and early retention.
• Familiarity with reward frameworks and supporting people projects from implementation to delivery.
• Data-savvy mindset, able to use insight to inform people decisions and measure impact.
• Hands-on, self-sufficient, and committed to delivering continuous improvement in everything you do.

Salary: £50,000 per annum

Holidays: 25 days + bank holidays

Work Style: Flexible hybrid working available

Join Us

If you’re ready to take full ownership of delivery, thrive in a fast-paced, high-change environment, and love being hands-on—this is your opportunity. Be part of a people team that’s reimagining what a great place to work really means.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Human Resources

• Industries

  Furniture

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