HR Manager with L&D Focus (Contract Position)

At Veremark, we’re redefining trust in hiring and workforce verification through cutting-edge technology, data integrity, and a people-first mindset. With a global footprint, we help businesses build trusted relationships — starting from every hire.

As part of our fast-growing and globally connected team, you’ll join a company that values innovation, ownership, and collaboration. We move fast, set high standards, and believe that great teams are built on transparency, accountability, and shared success.

At Veremark, you’ll have the opportunity to shape scalable HR practices, enhance the employee experience across regions, and play a key role in supporting our mission to make hiring fairer, faster, and more reliable for organizations around the world.

Join us if you’re ready to make an impact, drive meaningful change, and grow your HR career in a company that truly values people as its greatest asset.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a dynamic UK/India HR Manager with Learning and Development focus, and people experience for our growing workforce. This role blends operational excellence with strategic HR partnership — from training to payroll and benefits governance to employee engagement, compensation frameworks, and performance programs across multiple countries. This role will also own and deliver high-impact learning experiences across Veremark, including creating the framework, strategies, contents deliverables (partnering with key business owners) and delivering the training. 

As the UK/India HR Manager, you will lead HR operations with Learning and Development/Training focus and strategic people initiatives across the UK, India workforces, with potential expansion into newer geographies in Europe. You will be responsible for compliance, employee lifecycle management, and partnering with business leaders to drive talent strategies aligned with Veremark’s growth.

Duties and Responsibilities

Employee Lifecycle Management

• Support employee life cycle activities from on-boarding, day to day support, to off-boarding stages

• Offer support and guidance to employees on HR policies, procedures, welfare and benefits programs, insurance claims, and other HR-related administrative matters

• Manage and maintain each new hire’s personal folder from the pre-onboarding phase through the end of their probation period

• Promote a positive work environment through employee initiatives and to create a holistic employee experience

• Manage benefits in kind such as birthdays, special occasions, work anniversaries etc.

• Act as a point of contact for employee HR-related queries

• Review, develop, update, and implement HR policies, procedures, and the employee handbook to ensure compliance with labour laws and regulation

• Oversee the annual insurance renewal process and monthly update to vendor

HR Training and System Management

• Build and develop internal training framework, content, and structure

• Analyze training, learning and development gaps within the organization

• Assist in planning, sourcing and publishing/promoting internally learning and development programs

• Serve as the primary training coordinator/trainer within HR, handling the scheduling of sessions while collaborating with HR counterparts to ensure invitations for sessions and other key events are properly distributed

• Facilitate training sessions for local employees/workers on various contents such as client onboarding, sales training, HR systems, tools, and outward mindset initiatives; company cultures; or as assigned.

• Partner with IT to ensure security trainings are 100% completion rate

Merger and Acquisition

• Act as the catalyst for cultural integration across UK entities and newly acquired businesses, post-integration, ensuring alignment with Veremark’s Core Values and operating principles.

• Lead the people and culture integration strategy during mergers and acquisition, conducting cultural diagnostics, identifying gaps, and designing structured integration roadmaps.

• Serve as the HR change agent, driving organisational alignment, harmonisation of policies, and consistent employee experience across merged entities.

• Bridge cultural, operational, and behavioural differences by facilitating and alignment workshops, communication frameworks, and change engagement initiatives.

• Partner with executive stakeholders to unify teams under a shared identity, shared goals, and common performance standards.

Compensation Strategy & Framework

• Ability to design and support a competitive global compensation framework, covering fixed pay and variable incentive programs.

• Develop and implement internal salary bands and job grading structures aligned with market dynamics, balancing standardization and flexibility.

• Conduct market research and benchmarking to continuously enhance compensation competitiveness.

• Support VP of People & Culture  to develop diverse incentive programs aligned with company growth and workforce needs.

• Monitor program effectiveness and optimize reward mechanisms to enhance business impact and employee engagement.

• Develop diverse incentive programs aligned with company growth and workforce needs.

• Monitor program effectiveness and optimize reward mechanisms to enhance business impact and employee engagement

Performance Management

• Support performance review cycle and systems adapted to global and remote teams (OKRs, project-based reviews, 360 feedback, etc.).

• Partner with HRD to drive goal setting, ongoing coaching, and performance reviews, ensuring fair and transparent evaluation.

• Design incentive mechanisms linked to performance outcomes to strengthen alignment between contribution and rewards.
   

Others

• Monitor vendor management based on Service level agreement (SLA), raise POs, validate invoices for processing, and oversee the renewal/non-renewal of agreements

• Participate in HR projects/initiatives and provide support in tasks as assigned, e.g. Payroll project

• Serves as back up to team member(s) in area(s) as assigned

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of HR Generalist experience, with high focus on developing and building Learning & Development, training functions in major start-ups

• System and tech savvy is highly desirable

• Familiar with UK employment laws, India employment laws, payroll and HR operations

• Accountable and willing to take ownership for 100% data accuracy

• Adaptable and agile to manage changes, thrive in ambiguity

• Exhibits service mindset and passionate about assisting employees with their HR needs

• Humble, able to show empathy when handling employee issues and self-reflect

• Strong interpersonal and communications skills and be at ease to deal with employees from all levels

• Effective collaborator and able to work across departments to achieve business goals

• Excellent business acumen, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Highly accountable, self-driven, and able to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment

Academic Qualifications

• Diploma or degree in HR/Business administration