Job Description:
Role Overview:
We are looking for an experienced HR Manager to join our Duxford site in the UK, a key manufacturing location with strong growth potential and strategic importance for Huntsman. This role plays a central part in supporting business performance, improving organisational effectiveness and strengthening leadership capability across the site. You will be part of the Site Leadership Team and work closely with the Team to drive change, improve collaboration and help the site deliver on its growth ambitions. The position combines strategic HR business partnering with hands-on operational delivery in a dynamic, transformation-focused environment. If you are motivated to make a visible impact, this role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of the site.
Do you think you’re the right fit for this opportunity? Apply today!
Role Responsibilities:
As an HR Manager you will be responsible for:
- Acting as the senior HR Partner to the Duxford Site Leadership Team, providing strategic HR leadership and business partnering that enables organisational effectiveness
- Translating business priorities into clear people initiatives, including workforce planning, organisation design and capability development
- Driving site transformation by strengthening leadership capability, leading the site performance and development cycle, and ensuring high-quality calibration
- Coaching, supporting and challenging leaders at all levels to improve performance, accountability and decision-making
- Leading workforce planning and supporting the recruitment, retention and development of talent to meet current and future needs
- Managing complex employee relations matters, including organisational change, complex case management and other people risks
- Ensuring effective delivery of core HR processes across the employee lifecycle, with a strong focus on onboarding, payroll interfaces, compensation activity, benefits, mobility, retirement, redundancy and offboarding
- Reviewing and improving HR policies and processes to align with business needs and legal requirements
- Working closely with HR Shared Services and the wider European HR team to ensure a consistent and efficient HR operating model
- Establishing and monitoring meaningful HR performance measures, using HR data and insights to support decision-making, identify risks and drive continuous improvement
- Maintaining robust and accurate HR records, systems and documentation, ensuring full compliance with data privacy requirements, internal controls and audit expectations
Experience and Competencies:
We are looking for an experienced HR professional with a strong generalist background, proven experience in driving change within a manufacturing environment and the ability to influence and improve organisational performance.
What we are looking for:
- Strong academic background in HR or a related field, ideally complemented by a CIPD qualification (or working towards it)
- Experience in a manufacturing environment, with a good understanding of site-based operations
- Strong HR generalist expertise, with up-to-date employment law knowledge and an understanding of HR governance
- Proven ability to diagnose organisational issues, translate business priorities into practical HR initiatives, and drive organisational change
- Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge senior leaders constructively
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to adapt style to different audiences across all levels of the organisation
- High level of resilience and confidence when dealing with challenging situations in a demanding environment
- Ability to balance short-term operational priorities with longer-term transformation and capability building
- High professionalism, and ability to make sound judgements, whilst managing a broad and dynamic workload
- Confident use of Microsoft Office and digital tools to support analysis, reporting and efficient delivery
What next?
If you would like to join an innovative, collaborative and multicultural team, please apply now. Your application will be forwarded to a Talent Acquisition Partner, who will strive to get back to you as soon as they can. We understand that applying for a new job is a big decision and we will work hard to keep you updated and support you along the way.
About Us:
At Huntsman, we pride ourselves on being a people-oriented organization.
Our family-like atmosphere is cultivated by our diverse groups of team members around the world.
We welcome the talent, experience and fresh ideas that employees at all stages of their careers, from interns to seasoned professionals, bring to Huntsman.
In return, we offer you the opportunity to become an integral part of a dynamic, industry-leading company, where safety and ethics always come first.
Additional Locations:
Skills Required
- Strong academic background in HR or related field
- CIPD qualification or working towards CIPD
- Experience in a manufacturing environment with site-based operations knowledge
- Proven HR generalist expertise, current employment law knowledge and HR governance understanding
- Experience leading organisational diagnosis, workforce planning, organisation design and change initiatives
- Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills with confidence to challenge senior leaders
- Experience managing complex employee relations, case management, redundancy and offboarding
- Excellent communication skills adaptable to all organisational levels
- High resilience, professionalism and ability to make sound judgements under pressure
- Confident use of Microsoft Office and digital tools for analysis and reporting
Huntsman Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Huntsman Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Huntsman Corporation.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage (medical/dental/vision) and EAP are consistently described as solid, with multiple plan options cited. Strong health benefits are frequently highlighted as a relative strength in the total package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with employer contributions and equity through a stock incentive plan, with legacy pension arrangements for some groups. Retirement features are repeatedly referenced as a positive component of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and floating days are described as good to very good in many roles. Vacation accrual is said to increase with seniority in some locations.
Huntsman Corporation Insights
What We Do
Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals with 2019 revenues of approximately $7 billion. Our chemical products number in the thousands and are sold worldwide to manufacturers serving a broad and diverse range of consumer and industrial end markets. We operate more than 70 manufacturing, R&D and operations facilities in approximately 30 countries and employ approximately 9,000 associates within our four distinct business divisions. We view our customers as valued partners. That’s why we believe in a collaborative approach to client relations and work directly with our customers to develop new chemical components that meet their unique needs. Our dedication to our customers is matched only by our dedication to the environment. As part of our commitment to bettering the industry, we strive to operate safe, clean, efficient facilities in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. This means actively seeking opportunities to leverage our resources to assist those in need around the world. It’s all part of our growth-driven approach, which reflects the spirit of free enterprise and is centered on creating mutual benefits for customers, employees, suppliers and the communities where we work.
