Head of HR Services

2 weeks ago

Christchurch, New Zealand Sheffield Full time

Christchurch
- **A People Team dedicated to providing value back to the business**:

- **Competitive packages with opportunities for development**:

- **Trusted, well-established ag sector business committed to ‘smarter farming’**

**The Company**

Ravensdown is a farmer owned co-operative within the agricultural sector which exists to help farmers optimise soil fertility and productivity, to run their businesses in a profitable and sustainable way, with a focus on lowering environmental impact.

More recently, Ravensdown have been redesigning their organisational structure to set themselves up to deliver their strategy, and now have a number of exciting new opportunities to bring to market.

**The People & Safety Team**

Led by the Chief People & Safety Officer, the team have an overriding objective to deliver an employee and customer experience that is second to none, becoming one of New Zealand’s top employers. As part of Ravensdown’s redesign, the People team will develop self-service options for the business to lift the focus of their HR Services Team and create space for HR Business Partners to become more strategic and future focused. They will support and help build a safe and high-performing culture by partnering to implement the strategic people initiatives/projects for business portfolios that the OD team design in collaboration.

The People Team aims to improve the services, data, and insights it provides to its customers, giving valuable time back to the frontline HR services team and Business Partners, so they can continuously improve the People team offering, and orchestrate all people-related projects/initiatives in a way that provides **value back to the business**.

**Head of HR Services**

The Head of HR Services will oversee HR operations, ensuring effective policies and smooth procedures are in place, while also managing the HR Advisory and payroll team. A strong focus for the role is on ‘what’ services are provided and ‘how’ these are delivered to the business to ensure effective support is available to managers and employees across the organisation. (The role will also act as a Senior HR Business Partner to allocated business portfolios.)

The role has five direct reports.

**Skills and Experience**

You will be an experienced and qualified HR practitioner with a talent for identifying and implementing fit for purpose tools and technology to provide timely information and support. A good head for data analysis, you will know what information to collect and how best to present it, providing valuable insights back to the People team and the business. A stickler for excellence, combined with a healthy dose of pragmatism, you will look for opportunities to drive improvements and determine future direction.

In addition, you will have:

- A tertiary qualification in HRM or related discipline
- Knowledge of, and experience ing, remuneration methodologies, best practice recruitment and talent management frameworks, ER and performance development practices
- Knowledge of effective workplace metrics and tools
- An ability to problem solve and implement corrective actions to drive improvements
- A Strong working knowledge of NZ employment legislation and payroll regulations
- Experience leading a team.

**Benefits**

Ravensdown offers a very competitive package that includes insurances, phone, laptop, and extended superannuation, plus excellent development opportunities in a supportive, cooperative environment. There is also a significant incentive potential.

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