HR Manager / Business Partner

Passion for Innovation. Compassion for Patients.

With over 120 years of experience and more than 17,000 employees in over 20 countries, Daiichi Sankyo is dedicated to discovering, developing, and delivering new standards of care that enrich the quality of life around the world.

In Europe, we focus on two areas: The goal of our Specialty Business is to protect people from cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in Europe, and help patients who suffer from it to enjoy every precious moment of life. In Oncology, we strive to become a global pharma innovator with competitive advantage, creating novel therapies for people with cancer.

Our European headquarters are in Munich, Germany, and we have affiliates in 13 European countries and Canada.

HR Manager / Business Partner  – Role Profile 

Grade:          7 

Hours:          Full time, hybrid working (a minimum of 2 days per week in Head office) with occasional travel within the UK and Europe.

Purpose:      To provide HR generalist business partner support to the business, working closely with Line Managers to provide expert guidance and proactively identify opportunities to deliver people solutions that ensure a safe and thriving environment for all employees, helping the company comply with employment law, facilitate positive employee relations through the development of employee development strategies, resolving workplace disputes. 

Accountabilities / Measures: 

1. Acts as a true business partner and proactively identify opportunities to deliver solutions and facilitate the delivery of business objectives 

• Manage complex employee relations casework including dispute resolutions, disciplinaries, grievances, absence, retirement and redundancy. 

• Ensure performance concerns are identified and raised with individual managers and HR Director (e.g. sickness absence trends flagged through HR Information System).   

• Mediation of issues raised by either employees or line managers to quick and constructive resolution.  

• Advise managers on the terms and conditions of employment, sharing knowledge of employment law.   

• Support and coaching of line managers. 

• Support change management processes.  

• Run HR inductions for new starters. 

• Ensure all pre-employment checks (including references, qualification certificates, driving licence, passports) are completed robustly with any issues escalated to HR Director. 

• Manage and lead talent and succession planning processes feeding into the European Talent Programme.  

• Lead the bi-annual feedback dialogue and personal development planning process ensuring each person has a tailored personal development plan.   

• Lead interview/assessment centre events ensuring that recruiting managers adhere to internal standards and highest quality intake is secured. 

• All relevant assessment centre paperwork and administration collated and filed centrally, with feedback reports and/or meetings conducted in a timely and constructive manner to support personal developmental needs. 

• Work with recruitment team and Internal HR roles to ensure offer letters, contracts of employment and associated documents are produced and issued according to internal SLAs.

2. Lead the UK talent acquisition process through effective coordination of the end-to-end process 

• Identify a group of preferred supplier (PSL) agencies covering all roles within the business, based on business need and priority for both employee and contractor sourcing.  

• Ensure we have signed terms and conditions in relation to the PSL. 

• Manage the preferred supplier list of agencies in line with agreed KPI’s and effective and ongoing partnership with agency representatives.  

• Be responsible and accountable for the smooth running of the outsourced Contractor process used to source and manage them, ensuring line managers are provided a speedy and efficient service. 

3. Ad-hoc HR Projects   

• Participate in the implementation of specific projects, procedures and guidelines to help align the workforce with the strategic goals of the organisation. 

• Continuously monitor and improve HR policies and processes and implement changes when necessary.  

• Proactively seeks opportunities for the HR function as a whole to add value to the rest of the Company through new initiatives and approaches. 

Technical/Professional Knowledge: 

Essential   

•  Degree level educated, ideally in a business or people related discipline.   
• Fully CIPD Qualified to level 7, or equivalent experience. 
• Proven significant HR generalist experience.   
• Strong coaching, facilitating and consulting skills and used to working alongside senior stakeholders.  
• Previous experience of recruiting high quality candidates.  
• Exceptional organisational and communication skills, 
• Solid knowledge of employment legislation and its application.  
• Confident in both written and spoken communication.
• A solution focussed, proactive team player with strong customer service and problem solving skills.  
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and act with discretion and diplomacy is crucial.  
• Self-motivated and able to work under own autonomy or as part of a team.  
• Preparedness to seek continuous professional development. 

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