HR Manager

Part time 10-15 hours per week during office hours 9.00-5.30 Mon to Friday

Main duties and responsibilities

The primary responsibility of the HR Manager is responsible for overseeing the entire employee life cycle, including talent acquisition, onboarding, performance management, compliance, compensation, and employee relations.  You will be responsible for managing the full recruitment life cycle, from sourcing and screening candidates to extending job offers and onboarding new hires. You will work closely with department heads and hiring managers to understand their hiring needs and develop effective recruitment strategies. You will also be responsible for maintaining our HR policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with employment legislation and regulations, and promoting a positive company culture

What makes you our next HR Manager?

Essential requirements

• Recruitment and Onboarding – overseeing the hiring process from collaborating with recruiting managers to sourcing and interviewing candidates, negotiating job offers, conducting reference checks and onboarding new hires.
• Source and screen candidates – using various recruitment channels, including job boards, social media, and professional networks.
• Employee Relations & Welfare – acting as a point of contact for staff welfare, managing disputes, conducting exit interviews, and fostering a positive work environment.
• Policy Development and Compliance – developing, implementing, and enforcing HR policies, procedures, and employee handbooks in line with employment legislation
• Performance Management – managing appraisal systems, monitoring attendance/absenteeism, and advising managers on performance issues and development.
• Compensation and Benefits – administering benefits, compensation strategies, and salary reviews, often in collaboration with finance.
• Promote a positive company culture by developing and implementing employee engagement initiatives.

Desirable requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in HR and Talent Acquisition, with a focus on the technology industry.
• Knowledge of recruitment best practices and techniques, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and candidate assessment.
• Familiarity with labor laws and regulations, and experience developing and implementing HR policies and procedures.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Demonstrate professional courage and influence
• Be highly motivated, enthusiastic and results driven
• Be passionate about being a key contributor to the growth of the company

 The above is not an exhaustive list and you are required to be flexible in your approach to carrying out your duties which may change from time to time in order to reflect business needs or the company’s continuous improvement.

What can we offer you?

• A competitive financial package – salary and share options
• 5 weeks annual leave pro rata, flexible leave policy
• Salary sacrifice pension, with company savings being paid into the scheme
• A collaborative work environment with neither red tape nor bureaucracy
• Scope for career development as an early team member
• Support and resources to develop your skills and succeed in the role
• Hybrid working arrangements and a great team culture
• Access to an EAP, wellbeing champion, and financial advice
• Enhanced sickness policy
• Regular social and team building events
• Cycle scheme

About Intellegens

With Intellegens, you can apply advanced machine learning to find new product and process solutions, get products to market faster, and break through R&D bottlenecks. The Alchemite™ Suite offers a series of easy-to-use apps focused on key challenges for scientists, experimentalists, data scientists, or their managers. Unlock insights hidden in your data and guide decision-making to reduce experimental workloads by 50-80%. Share results and collaborate across R&D teams. 

Originally developed at the University of Cambridge, the Alchemite™ algorithm offers unique capabilities for handling real experimental and process data. Since 2017, Intellegens has further advanced the method, implemented software solutions that enable it to be applied to solve practical problems in industrial R&D, and developed deep experience of such applications through hundreds of projects. The strengths of Alchemite™ include its ability to train machine learning models on sparse and noisy data, where other machine learning methods typically fail, and accurate uncertainty quantification, enabling effective decisions.

The Intellegens team of expert scientists, software engineers, and commercial staff is based in its new Cambridge Headquarters at Chesterton Mill. Its record of innovation and customer success led to it being awarded ‘AI Company of the Year’ in the Cambridge Independent Science & Technology Awards, 2023, selected from a very strong peer group of scientific software and research businesses in the Cambridge ‘Silicon Fen’ region. Successful applications of Intellegens technology have included alloys, specialty chemicals, plastics, paints, coatings, cosmetics, food and beverages, drugs, biopharmaceuticals, batteries, and optimising manufacturing processes.