Head of Resourcing and Reward

Reporting into the Director of People Services you will be responsible for leading, managing and motivating the Reward and Resourcing Team.

Your key accountabilities will include:-

• Integrating and leading a newly created team ensuring the right strategies, processes and practices are in place.
• Developing a reward strategy which modernises the council's remuneration policies and practices.
• Managing the delivery of on-going and annual pay and reward programmes.
• Working with senior leaders to determine their resourcing and talent requirements and translating these into an integrated succession and talent acquisition strategy.
• Reviewing resourcing processes and ensuring the creative and innovative use of all resourcing channels and media.
• Negotiating, reviewing and managing the Council's agency workers' contract so that the Council is achieving value for money.
• Working as a senior member of the People Services function, ensuring there is a high degree of collaboration across the function.
• Leading and managing complex projects including working closely and effectively with Trade Unions.
• Writing papers for senior meetings on reward and resourcing issues.

You should be an experienced Human Resources professional with a track record of evaluating and assessing reward practices and of developing organisation wide resourcing and succession planning strategies. Ideally you will have a good understanding of local government pay and conditions. Excellent team management skills need to be combined with an innovative and proactive working style.

Morgan Hunt is a multi award winning Employment Business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer job suitability are assessed on merit in accordance with their skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role