54 results for Learning And Development Specialist in Guildford, Surrey

Head of HR

Oxford, Oxfordshire
remote
Permanent
75000 - 85000 GBP / Yearly
Head of HRLocation: Oxford (4 days office-based, 1 day working from home, with occasional travel) Salary: £75,000 - £85,000 per annumAbout the RoleRobert Half are working with a well-established organisation in Oxford to recruit a Head of HR. This is a key leadership role responsible for delivering a pragmatic and effective people strategy that supports business performance, operational excellence, and employee engagement.Working closely with senior leaders, you will provide both strategic direction and hands-on operational HR leadership. The successful candidate will be comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment, balancing day-to-day people challenges with longer-term organisational priorities.Alongside leading the people agenda, you will play a key role in driving continuous improvement across the HR function, reviewing and enhancing processes, systems, and ways of working to ensure the team delivers an efficient, commercially focused service that meets the needs of the business.This role would particularly suit an HR leader who has experience supporting large blue-collar workforces within sectors such as retail, manufacturing, logistics, travel, transportation, distribution, or other operationally focused environments.Key Responsibilities<ul><li>Lead the HR function, ensuring the delivery of a professional, commercially focused people service across the organisation.</li><li>Partner with senior stakeholders to develop and implement people strategies aligned to business objectives.</li><li>Take ownership of complex employee relations matters, providing expert guidance and ensuring consistent application of policy and best practice.</li><li>Coach and support managers at all levels, building leadership capability and confidence in people management.</li><li>Drive workforce planning, talent management, and succession planning initiatives.</li><li>Lead organisational change and transformation projects where required.</li><li>Identify opportunities to improve HR processes, policies, systems, and reporting, driving greater efficiency and consistency across the employee lifecycle.</li><li>Champion continuous improvement within the HR function, ensuring services are scalable, customer-focused, and aligned to business needs.</li><li>Use people data and insights to identify trends, inform decision-making, and support operational performance.</li><li>Manage, mentor, and develop a small central HR team, fostering a high-performance and customer-focused culture.</li><li>Ensure compliance with employment legislation and HR best practice.</li></ul>About You<ul><li>Proven experience in a senior HR leadership role, ideally as a Head of HR, Senior HR Business Partner, HR Manager, or similar.</li><li>Strong operational HR background with the ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery.</li><li>Significant employee relations expertise, including managing complex and sensitive cases.</li><li>Experience coaching, developing, and influencing managers across all levels of an organisation.</li><li>Demonstrable experience leading and developing HR teams.</li><li>A track record of improving HR processes, implementing change, and driving operational efficiencies.</li><li>Strong understanding of UK employment law and HR best practice.</li><li>Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.</li><li>Experience supporting large, dispersed, blue-collar workforces is highly desirable.</li><li>Background within sectors such as retail, manufacturing, logistics, travel, transportation, distribution, warehousing, or other operational environments would be advantageous.</li></ul>What's on Offer<ul><li>Salary of £75,000-£85,000 </li><li>Hybrid working pattern of 4 days in the office and 1 day working from home.</li><li>A highly visible leadership role with significant influence across the organisation.</li><li>The opportunity to shape and drive the people agenda within a complex operational environment.</li><li>The chance to support HR transformation and process improvement initiatives that deliver tangible business impact.</li><li>A supportive leadership team and the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to organisational performance, culture, and leadership capability.</li></ul> Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: roberthalf.com/gb/en/privacy-notice.<img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/UmFjaGVsLlNoYXcuNDE2NzYuMTA5MjNAcmhpLmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ.gif">
2026-06-10T17:27:30Z

Marketing Lead

City of London, London
remote
Permanent
- 80000 GBP / Yearly
Marketing Lead - UK LaunchThe CompanyA Hong Kong-founded logistics technology platform now in its fourteenth year, this is a business that has scaled across Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Europe entirely through organic growth - no acquisitions, just a founding team that plants a skeleton crew in a new market and builds from scratch. Berlin and New York both launched in the last six months. London is next. With a founder-led culture and an entrepreneurial leadership team, the business moves fast, operates with genuine autonomy at the local level, and still carries the energy of a startup despite operating at serious scale across 20+ markets.The RoleThis is a pre-launch hire. You'll be one of the first senior people through the door in the UK, and your brief is to build the marketing function from the ground up - developing and executing a UK-specific go-to-market plan ahead of launch, then scaling a team of three beneath you once live. The role spans the full funnel: brand awareness and positioning, B2B customer acquisition, digital performance marketing (paid social, Google Ads, network campaigns), CRM, content and communications. You'll work closely with regional and global teams in Hong Kong but own the UK strategy outright - adapting frameworks that have worked elsewhere to fit the local market rather than following a script.Day-to-day will include:<ul class="[li_&]:mb-0 [li_&]:mt-1 [li_&]:gap-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Developing and owning the UK pre-launch marketing strategy, from brand introduction through to acquisition and retention</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Managing performance across paid digital channels - Facebook Ads, Google Ads, network campaigns - with a focus on CAC and ROI</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Deriving actionable insights from marketing and product data to drive growth hacking and ongoing optimisation</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Building and managing relationships with external agencies and partners</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Hiring and leading a local marketing team of three</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Collaborating with functional teams in Hong Kong across platform, product, driver operations and corporate solutions</li></ul>What We're Looking For<ul class="[li_&]:mb-0 [li_&]:mt-1 [li_&]:gap-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">6+ years in a marketing role, ideally within a high-growth tech or platform business</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Genuine full-funnel capability - you're as comfortable in a performance dashboard as you are writing a brief or shaping a brand narrative</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience in digital acquisition, CRM, content and offline marketing - all-round operators preferred over channel specialists</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Data-driven instincts: you build strategy from numbers, not intuition alone</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Startup or scale-up experience is important - you need to be comfortable building without a playbook and moving quickly in ambiguous environments</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience working with or within Asian or international markets would be a strong advantage</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Entrepreneurial, commercially minded, and able to work closely with a leadership team that has high standards and moves fast</li></ul>Why It's Worth ConsideringPre-launch founding team roles don't come up often. This is a genuine opportunity to shape how a major international platform enters and grows in the UK market - with real autonomy, the backing of a business that has proven it can scale, and a leadership team that values people who think like owners. The platform is already well-established in its existing markets; the UK is a priority expansion, not a test.25 days holiday. 5 days in-office, London.Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: roberthalf.com/gb/en/privacy-notice.<img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/SGFyZWwuVGhvbXBzb24uNzAyMDQuMTA5MjNAcmhpLmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ.gif">
2026-06-11T08:34:59Z

Global Payroll Manager

Wokingham, Berkshire
remote
Temporary
300 - 400 GBP / Daily
Interim Global Payroll Manager (6-Month Contract) - RemoteWe are supporting a global organisation through a major business transition and are seeking an experienced Global Payroll Manager to take ownership of payroll operations during this critical period. This is a hands-on role requiring someone who can quickly assess, stabilise, and manage a complex international payroll environment.Key Responsibilities<ul data-end="1483" data-start="638"><li data-section-id="eo9k6m" data-start="638" data-end="712">Lead end-to-end global payroll operations across EMEA and North America.</li><li data-end="816" data-start="713" data-section-id="q7bs83">Manage payroll, benefits, pensions, and statutory processes across multiple countries and currencies.</li><li data-end="887" data-start="817" data-section-id="cyajme">Oversee a global employee population of approximately 650 employees.</li><li data-section-id="1m26ni1" data-start="888" data-end="949">Manage and support two payroll team members based in India.</li><li data-end="1037" data-section-id="q7zsbe" data-start="950">Work closely with Finance, HR, local stakeholders, and third-party payroll providers.</li><li data-end="1118" data-start="1038" data-section-id="186yjak">Ensure payroll accuracy, compliance, controls, reporting, and reconciliations.</li><li data-section-id="1484hxi" data-start="1119" data-end="1214">Support payroll transition activities, knowledge transfer, and future system migration plans.</li><li data-end="1282" data-section-id="1cfxicn" data-start="1215">Drive process improvements and standardisation where appropriate.</li><li data-start="1283" data-section-id="dm4mn8" data-end="1396">Manage payroll deadlines across multiple regions, including European monthly and North American payroll cycles.</li><li data-section-id="1ebb8us" data-start="1397" data-end="1483">Act as the key payroll contact for stakeholders and provide expert payroll guidance.</li></ul>Requirements<ul data-start="1503" data-end="2177"><li data-end="1573" data-start="1503" data-section-id="1vy1t2s">Proven experience managing global, multi-country payroll operations.</li><li data-start="1574" data-section-id="lqhcrx" data-end="1628">Strong knowledge of EMEA and North American payroll. </li><li data-end="1695" data-start="1629" data-section-id="mioe8">North American and Canadian payroll experience highly desirable.</li><li data-end="1776" data-section-id="15ikeyd" data-start="1696">Experience managing multi-currency payrolls and third-party payroll providers.</li><li data-section-id="3l4g0y" data-start="1777" data-end="1861">Previous leadership experience, including managing remote or shared service teams.</li><li data-end="1941" data-section-id="caz9w4" data-start="1862">Strong understanding of payroll compliance, benefits, pensions, and controls.</li><li data-start="1942" data-section-id="gkuy6w" data-end="2027">Experience with Workday, Rippling, or similar payroll/HRIS systems is advantageous.</li><li data-end="2116" data-section-id="1ml8z4d" data-start="2028">Comfortable working in a hands-on capacity within a fast-paced transition environment.</li><li data-start="2117" data-section-id="1yicwg8" data-end="2177">Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.</li></ul>Additional Information<ul data-end="2422" data-start="2207"><li data-end="2234" data-section-id="hlym2p" data-start="2207">Initial 6-month contract.</li><li data-section-id="1xghlk8" data-start="2235" data-end="2250">Fully remote.</li><li data-start="2251" data-section-id="6cwtex" data-end="2328">Flexible working hours with some overlap required for North American teams.</li><li data-start="2329" data-section-id="ypqy36" data-end="2357">Immediate start preferred.</li><li data-end="2422" data-start="2358" data-section-id="9fsu4l">£350-£400 per day umbrella.</li></ul>This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Global Payroll Manager who thrives in change environments and can combine strategic oversight with hands-on delivery. Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: roberthalf.com/gb/en/privacy-notice.<img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/UG9wcHkuR3JhbnQuNTY1MjAuMTA5MjNAcmhpLmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ.gif">
2026-06-08T14:01:27Z

HR Consultant

London, London
remote
Contract
28 - 38 GBP / Hourly
Role:Our client is looking to recruit a HR Consultant for an ongoing assignment. In this role you will be responsible for the following duties: <ul style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Managing Employee Relations cases confidently and independently</li><li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Reviewing and updating outdated policies, procedures and employee handbooks</li><li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Supporting contract changes and improving HR processes</li><li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Building job descriptions and introducing structure where needed</li><li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;">Acting as a trusted HR presence on-site during a period of growth and change</li></ul> Profile:The successful temporary, HR Consultant will have at least 5 years experience working within HR Operations and will have had exposure to working with complex ER cases and writing policies and procedures. You must be either immediate or on a 1 week notice to be considered for this role. Client:Our client is a prestigious, member led organisation based in West London. You will work 5 days per week from their office. Salary & Benefits:This immediate, temporary HR Consultant role will be paying circa £28-38 per hour. This is dependant on experience.Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: roberthalf.com/gb/en/privacy-notice.<img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/RWxpYW5hLlphbWV0LjIyNzQyLjEwOTIzQHJoaS5hcGxpdHJhay5jb20.gif">
2026-06-19T13:57:30Z