HR Mobilisation Manager - speculative

Job Introduction

We are looking to gain interest for a potential role we are currently bidding for within our Healthcare segment.

As the HR Mobilisation Manager, based in the South, you will report to the Senior HR Business Partner and take responsibility for leading and managing a large scale Tupe programme, ensuring no adverse employee reactions. You will quickly establish credibility and build rapport with key stakeholders. Along-side the management of this Tupe project, you will also deliver an effective HR service to the wider Healthcare business and pro-actively partner managers at all levels in providing pragmatic and commercially focused solutions.

Sodexo Healthcare is a leading provider of services to the NHS and private healthcare organisations in England. We provide quality of life services that improve patient and staff experience, raise standards and deliver financial benefits to our clients. We help to enhance the patient environment (including patient dining, cleaning/housekeeping, retail services), provide clinical support (diagnostic pathology as part of a joint venture, equipment sterilisation) and manage technical estates team.

Role Responsibility

• Partner with business leaders to deliver HR solutions that maximise people performance, strategy and workforce planning and significantly contributing towards improving business performance
• Manage the due diligence process across employee populations
• Design and deliver detailed HR plans across contract mobilisations
• Liaise with trade unions, employee representation groups and other external parties
• Manage appropriate training for employee representatives with regard to TUPE regulations
• Co-ordinate and deliver an appropriate communication plan for employee groups
• Manage HR transition plans pre acquisitions and post-acquisition transfer.

The Ideal Candidate

• Experienced HR professional with a detailed understanding and intellectual approach to all aspects of HR Management
• Significant experience of contract mobilisations in a people heavy environment
• Good exposure to unionised environments
• Sound employment law knowledge, particularly TUPE legislation and best practice
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with all key stakeholders
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft office including MS Project
• Ability to find innovative ways of solving and/or pre-empting problems.

Package Description

As part of our commitment to improving the quality of life for our employees, Sodexo offers a Flexible Benefits Scheme, allowing you to tailor a reward package to suit your needs but includes a technology scheme, private dental insurance, travel insurance, gym membership, Gourmet card, private medical insurance and the ability to purchase or sell annual leave. We also have a Sodexo Discount scheme, which offers employees and their friends and family the opportunity to benefit from over 1,200 discounts from top retailers both online and in-store.

Potential start date of September 2016

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.

Sodexo and our clients are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. Certain roles will require applicants to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and/ or Disclosure Scotland.