Head of HR (Group role - UK)

Working with us provides great benefits, including:

• Access your pay as you earn it through our financial wellbeing platform ‘Wagestream,’ a tool that lets you track your earnings in real-time, access a percentage of your pay as you earn it, learn easy tips for managing your money and save straight from your pay into pots for the future.
• Discounted Hotel Stays across our UK sites, and if you work for a branded venue, around the World!
• 50% off Food Beverage at all our Hotels FB Venues
• Spa Discounts at our venues with a Spa
• Retail, Cinema Leisure Discounts
• Development Opportunities via our ‘Grow with us’ initiative, including Apprenticeship opportunities, our Development Programmes, and more!
• Monthly ‘Star of the Month’ Awards
• Long-service Awards, that start after 1 year of service
• ‘Recommend a Friend’ Incentive – Be rewarded for referring someone you know!
• Access to a confidential ‘Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)’ available 24/7, 365 days per year.
• Pension Scheme
• Other incentive programmes that run throughout the year

About the role…

Working with the HR Director, you will support the leadership of the HR team and people related initiatives across the business. You’ll help facilitate the delivery of our plan that underpins the HR Vision/Strategy and wider needs of the business.

We’re in good place… and we want to get better and better. High on the list for the year ahead are enhancing our branding/ candidate experience, the launch of a new Employee Satisfaction Survey (and related activity), our EDI Strategy, Wellbeing… and continuing to help drive down employee turnover!

About you…

Passionate about people, you will have the energy and drive to bring the best solutions to our people – that drive employee engagement and guest experience. From the moment a candidate applies and then the whole life cycle of employment, you will want to help create the finest experience and the best reputation for our brand.

You will have experience in a similar HR role and a proven pedigree in the likes of Talent Acquisition, Equality, Diversity Inclusion, Wellbeing and additional activity that have increased employee engagement.

Inquisitive and desperate to understand more about what makes our people tick, perform and stay, you will also want to be part of the journey that will drive measurable impact and win us awards!

Location: Flexible but with UK travel as required and occasional central meetings in the Newcastle area.

About us…

At Cairn Group we're ambitious. With a varied and extensive UK portfolio of hotels, bars and restaurants in our portfolio, we're focused on continual growth and are in it for the long haul. We are a family owned business with family values at our core, with a growing team and sites UK wide.

The Cairn Group’s Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre is a modern hotel conveniently located near to the Birmingham New Street train station.
The hotel is within an easy walk of the great bars and restaurants found in the Arcadian complex, as well as both the Hippodrome and New Alexandra theatres, Birmingham’s China Town district, The Mailbox shopping centre and the Bullring commercial area.

Benefits:
IHG Staff Rate Scheme
IHG Friends Family Rate
IHG Brand Training
Cairn Group Staff Discount Scheme
Retail and travel discounts
Recruit a friend Scheme
Induction and training programme
Star of the Month Golden Ticket Award
Pension scheme
'Cairn Academy' Training Development Opportunities
Uniform
Cycle 2 work scheme*
(* Applies to positions above minimum wage)