HR Manager
About this role
We’re hiring a new role - Head of People & Culture Leading a team of two Reporting to the Managing Director with a dotted line to the board, and will be required to attend Board meetings. Full time, 40 hours over 5 days
We’re looking for a brilliant people person.
And we mean that quite literally.
The Headland is an independent, family-owned luxury hotel in one of the most spectacular spots in Cornwall. We have history, character, ambition, strong opinions, exceptional people and a view that can stop a conversation halfway through a sentence.
Now we’re looking for an exceptional Head of People & Culture to help shape what comes next.
This is not a role for someone who wants to sit quietly in an office writing policies that nobody reads.
It’s not about being the HR police.
And we definitely don’t believe employee engagement can be solved with a bowl of fruit and an annual survey.
This is a senior, influential role with a seat at the table and a genuine opportunity to shape the culture and capability of our 250 full and part time person strong business.
You’ll work directly with our Managing Director, Board and Senior Management Team to build an ambitious people strategy that helps our people thrive and our business perform.
You’ll lead on the things that really matter:
✨ attracting and keeping brilliant people
✨ developing exceptional leaders
✨ creating meaningful career pathways
✨ building succession and talent pipelines
✨ strengthening our culture
✨ improving engagement and the employee experience
✨ using people data intelligently
✨ coaching and challenging our leaders
✨ making The Headland one of the very best places in hospitality to build a career
You’ll also lead and develop our small-but-mighty People team.
We’re looking for someone commercially sharp, emotionally intelligent and refreshingly human.