Key Responsibilities

You will work closely with senior leaders and line managers, providing practical people solutions while overseeing the effective delivery of HR services across the full employee lifecycle.

You will also lead and develop a small HR team (two direct reports).

Your responsibilities will include:

• Partnering with business leaders to understand operational priorities, workforce requirements and people challenges.
• Leading day-to-day HR delivery for the UK and supporting employees in Norway.
• Managing and developing two direct reports, ensuring clear accountability and a responsive HR service.
• Overseeing the full employee lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, employee changes, payroll coordination, benefits, performance management and offboarding.
• Providing hands-on support with employee relations matters, including performance, disciplinary, grievance and absence cases.
• Coaching managers and ensuring employment matters are handled consistently, appropriately documented and effectively managed.
• Supporting workforce planning, succession planning, talent development and employee retention.
• Leading annual performance management and compensation activities for the relevant employee population.
• Overseeing learning and development activity, ensuring priorities reflect business requirements.
• Using HR data and workforce trends to provide meaningful insight and recommendations to management.
• Supporting employee engagement initiatives and identifying opportunities to strengthen the employee experience.
• Ensuring HR policies and practices remain aligned with UK employment law and relevant international requirements.
• Improving, simplifying and, where appropriate, automating HR processes and systems.
• Working closely with wider HR colleagues to ensure alignment with global frameworks and processes.

Ideal Applicants

You will be an experienced and pragmatic HR professional with broad generalist knowledge and the confidence to operate as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders.

You should bring:

• Strong UK employment law knowledge and extensive hands-on employee relations experience.
• Broad experience across the employee lifecycle.
• Previous responsibility for leading or developing a small HR team.
• The ability to balance strategic business partnering with operational delivery.
• Strong business acumen and the confidence to challenge and influence constructively.
• Experience using HR data to identify trends and support decision-making.
• The ability to work independently, manage competing priorities and build credibility across an organisation.
• Experience supporting employees across Europe, particularly Norway, would be highly desirable.
• Wider international HR exposure and experience gained within Energy or another operationally complex environment would also be advantageous.

Why consider this opportunity?

This position offers:

• A broad and influential HR remit.
• Direct exposure to senior business leaders.
• Responsibility for a small HR team.
• International scope across the UK and Norway, and exposure to other global locations.
• The opportunity to shape HR delivery, strengthen processes and improve the employee experience.
• A varied role combining business partnering, team leadership and hands-on operational HR.

Working arrangement

This is a 100% office-based position in Aberdeen, which will suit someone who enjoys being visible within the business, developing close working relationships and providing practical, accessible HR support.

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