Job Title: HR Lead/HR Manager (12 MONTH maternity cover BEGINNING JAN 2026)
Responsible To: CFO
DIVISION: HR
We’re looking for a seasoned HR and recruitment professional to cover a wide spectrum of HR responsibilities while maintaining a strong focus on talent acquisition. As a standalone position, this role combines end to end recruitment, operational HR and strategic projects in conjunction with the management team.
As a fully distributed business, you are accustomed to working remotely to support our teams and managers across the whole spectrum of HR and recruitment.
🧩 Core Responsibilities
1. Recruitment & Talent Acquisition
- You’ll help to shape the future capability of our teams, by developing and executing recruitment plans aligned with business growth projections.
- Work with line managers to help carve out job specifications and brainstorm hiring needs
- Manage end-to-end hiring processes: sourcing, interviewing, offer management, and onboarding.
- Liaise with external agencies to support niche hiring needs
- Conduct salary benchmarking and market analysis to ensure competitive offers.
2. HR Operations
- Oversee payroll, benefits administration, and associated compliance
- Maintain Exelsys HRIS system and employee records.
- Draft and manage employment contracts, policies, and internal documentation.
- Maintenance and expansion of our HR policies and procedures
- Creating monthly board reports based on key HR metrics
- Ensure that HR practices are in line with Employment Law and legislation changes
3. Employee Relations & Engagement
- Act as a trusted advisor for managers and employees, confidently handling sensitive ER cases and grievances
- Prepare and review documents associated with formal grievances, performance improvement plans
- Lead cultural initiatives and engagement activities (e.g. engagement surveys, away days).
- Support leadership development and coaching plans for senior teams.
4. Learning & Development
- Coordinate L&D programs and platforms (e.g. Atlas, Citation) alongside management team.
- Deliver and expand onboarding plans and training materials for new hires.
5. Strategic Projects
- You’ll work closely with our management team to ensure our people and talent foundations scale with us.
- Partner with leadership on HR strategy, change management, and due diligence.
- Implement new initiatives such as ESG, global payroll solutions, and performance frameworks
- Work with the CFO to manage and update the HR budget
- Attend monthly management meetings to advocate and push for the representation of the HR function
- Spearhead the HR and people compliance aspects of our expansion into new geographies (namely USA and Canada), responsible for aspects of employment law, policies and payroll
🧠 Skills & Attributes
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Able to build relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders up to board level seniority
- You probably have 7-10 years of experience working in the people or talent function, ideally within the technology space
- Experience in working in a remote, standalone broad generalist HR position
- Ability to work autonomously and manage multiple priorities.
- Experience across the full employee lifecycle.
- Exposure to end-to-end recruitment and talent attraction
- Familiarity with employment law and compliance across multiple regions.
- Proficiency in HR systems and data analysis.
- Happy to get ‘into the weeds’ and stuck into a wide breadth of responsibilities
WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO:
We’re Elite Dynamics – specialising in delivering vertical solutions based on Microsoft Dynamics technology, into the Holiday Park, Marina & Leisure Industry.
We’ve got big ambitions to take our solutions across the globe, helping our customers be more productive and drive performance.
We want to work with operators, manufacturers and dealers in the park and marina industry who share the same passion and enthusiasm for world-class software solutions.
✔ Microsoft solutions partner
✔ Multi-award winner
✔ 50+ customers across the UK & Canada
What will you be doing?
Working in a standalone HR position reporting to the CFO, you will be the go-to support and owner of all things HR.
