Company Overview
At FlexMedical Solutions (FMS), we help our customers bring their ideas to life and create a healthier tomorrow, by providing contract design, development, and manufacturing services to medical device OEMs. We focus on the disposable component of diagnostic tests and have significant expertise with point of care (POC) in vitro diagnostics (IVD).
We can provide full assay development services and have impressive in-house manufacturing capabilities, ranging from screen printing and laser ablation of electrodes for biosensors to final device assembly, including the formulation and deposition of chemistries.
Our modern facilities are based in Livingston, central Scotland, less than 20 minutes from Edinburgh and 40 minutes from Glasgow. With a healthy mixture of UK and international clients, we are a forward-looking organisation with an exciting future.
Role Description
The HR Manager will provide expertise and leadership to a growing, technically complex, people focussed organisation. In this role you will be responsible for improving and monitoring adherence to all company HR policies and procedures and will work alongside the site leadership to develop an inclusive, rewarding and open environment. The focus of this role is to ensure that FMS attracts, hires, retains and rewards employees, whilst providing excellent development opportunities and supporting and developing a high performing organisation.
FMS is a company with a clear purpose ‘to help our customers create a healthier tomorrow’ and by living our iCARE values (Innovation, Community, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) we strive to achieve this. As HR Manager, you will play a very important role in enabling this.
This role will form part of the site management team and will report to the Chief Executive Officer.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting to the Technical Lead or Senior Scientist Officer, you will:
- Manage Recruitment Activities
Manage relationships with external recruitment partner(s) and oversee all company recruitment
- Manage Employee Benefit Scheme
Analyse take up of existing benefits
Promote and maintain benefits package, including review from time to time of range of benefits and providers. Responsible for all scheme administration and renewals
- Support New Hires
- Assume ownership of onboarding and induction processes, and improving where required
- Oversee Performance Management Activities
Provide professional input into employee performance and any disciplinary matters, ensuring adherence to UK employment law at all times and minimising risk to the business
- Further Develop Employee Retention and Engagement Strategy
Administer and improve process to effectively monitor employee engagement, using tools such as iCOUNT (employee survey) to collect data and make recommendations to leadership.
Ensure any systemic issues are identified and addressed
- Training & Development
Own training and development processes, working with finance to secure supporting grant funding
Recommend and oversee Leadership / Management training programs
Develop and introduce coaching and mentoring programs
- Manage Employee Performance Review Process
Co-ordinate annual ‘Go-FAR’ (performance appraisal) activities
Work with leadership to ensure fairness and consistency across the organisation
- Ensure Adherence to Company Policies
Oversee, create and maintain all policies – ensuring compliance to governing laws and regulations
Administer BreatheHR – the company HR management software
Advise employees and management as appropriate
- Support managers and the extended leadership team
Provide expert advice and guidance to managers and the extended leadership team on employment law issues and HR policy, to reduce organisational risk and establish and maintain an engaged, high performing workforce.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience required
Essential
- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Management or a related discipline. However, consideration will be given where significant industry experience and accomplishment can be demonstrated in lieu of academic qualifications, likely accompanied by CIPD qualifications.
- A wealth of proven experience in a similar industry.
- A solid understanding of UK employment law
- Be expert user of electronic HR Systems, including recruitment and applicant tracking
- Be a highly competent interviewer
- Demonstrate solid experience of compensation and employee benefits management
- Be skilled at managing complex, personal situations with individuals
- Have developed and managed employee performance review processes
- Have developed and managed training and development programmes, e.g. Management and Leadership Development and Coaching and Mentoring
- Be flexible and be able to manage and deliver a range of people related activities in parallel, depending on business priorities and needs
- Able to work autonomously and communicate clearly across the business.
Desirable
- Have designed and delivered culture focussed, organisational development programs
- Strong facilitator
- Skilled mediator, able to support with conflict resolution
- Have specific experience with BreatheHR
- Understand corporate law
- Are a trained coach, ideally at executive level
- Have experience with succession planning
- Have worked in contract manufacturing and / or organisations developing diagnostic tests
Environment & Culture
FlexMedical Solutions is a rapidly evolving scale-up organisation operating in a highly regulated industry. The company is enjoying growth through success and is working on a number of leading edge projects with exciting customers.
It is a changing environment that requires you to be very flexible and willing to learn and grow with the company. It is essential that you communicate with your team and contribute to the company’s success. Initiative will be rewarded and personal development is encouraged as it is guaranteed.