HR Director

Job Introduction

William Grant & Son’s Operational Business Unit (OBU) operates at the heart of our business, responsible for the operation of distilling and packaging sites throughout Scotland and the world. As an OBU board director, the HR Director will proactively work with senior stakeholders to ensure they are supported in developing a high performing organisation.

Main Responsibility

As the leading business partner in the business unit, you’ll ensure that HR is working closely with business leaders to manage key organisational, people and management issues, encompassing both practical advice on HR matters and developing an employee-oriented, open and collaborative culture. In this increasingly global role, and as an OBU board director, you’ll also have the opportunity contribute to the running of the business in a broader sense than HR alone.

Some of your main accountabilities will include:

• Ensuring the implementation of effective HR policies, principles, and standardised processes, including tools and templates
• Proactively working to improve efficiency and productivity. Support, advise and challenge respective BU team leaders in all related matters
• Proactively leading and monitoring talent development in order to develop high-performing teams and meet the long-term people needs of the business, with specific focus on relevant leadership and functional requirements, working closely with central Talent
• Ensuring team leaders are actively supported by HR to recruit the best possible talent with strong skills, experience and potential through rigorous standard processes, including competency-based interviewing, and to effectively onboard new employees, working closely with central Talent
• Ensuring realistic succession plans are worked out with team leaders in close coordination with central Talent, and the strength of people resources in the respective BU is built through effective and efficient progression and succession processes, including strong performance management
• Ensuring that team leaders are supported in the best possible way with the delivery of tailored and practical L&D programmes in order to enable employee personal development, and ensuring the business has the required competencies and capacity available at the right time to maximize added value, working closely with central L&D
• Monitoring remuneration in the assigned BUs, get ahead of the curve in terms of issues, actively manage employee understanding of the competitiveness of Company pay policies, and ensure people receive appropriate compensation that is aligned to the long-term Company Objectives, working closely with central Reward
• Overseeing respective BU team leaders in building and maintaining strong employee relations and encouraging employee engagement, and ensure support from the HR team as needed

Our Ideal Candidate

• Proven senior leader who can set objectives, performance manage a team and motivate and develop individuals to achieve their full potential.
• Strong generalist HR background with a strong emphasis on employment law provisions, performance management, talent development, succession planning and employee engagement.
• Some or all of this experience is likely to have been gained in an operations/manufacturing/FMCG environment, including union/collective groupings

• Effective communicator, with the ability to make a positive impact at all levels of the organisation.
• Confident influencing at all levels
• Commercially aware, with a focus on creating and delivering pragmatic solutions to business issues

What we can offer you

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
• Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
• Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues. 
• Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
• Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
• Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
• Learning resources to help you be your best self.

About William Grant & Sons

A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS

William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.

We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.

At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.

OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY

Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.

INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive. If you have any questions or need some support with your application we’d love to hear from you. So please get in touch with our HR team at recruitment.enquiries@wgrant.com.