Synthomer is a leading supplier of high-performance, highly specialised polymers and ingredients that play vital roles in key sectors such as coatings, construction, adhesives, and health and protection – growing markets that serve billions of end users worldwide. Headquartered in London, UK and publicly listed there since 1971, we employ c.3,900 employees across our 5 innovation centres of excellence and more than 29 manufacturing sites across Europe, North America and Asia. Around 20% of our sales volumes are from new and patent protected products.
At our innovation centres of excellence in the UK, Germany, China, Malaysia and Ohio, USA we collaborate closely with our customers to develop new products and enhance existing ones tailored to their needs, with an increasing range of sustainability benefits. Since 2021, we have been proud holders of the London Stock Exchange Green Economy Mark, which recognises green technology businesses making a significant contribution to a more sustainable, low-carbon economy.
- Strategic Business Partnership
- Collaborate with business leaders to understand their goals and challenges and develop HR strategies that align with overall business objectives.
- Actively providing insights on workforce planning, talent acquisition, and organisational development.
- Change Management
- Lead and influence change at a functional level across the organisation.
- Develop detailed project plans to support implementation of major change initiatives involving HR.
- Manage and evaluate the efficient delivery of significant ongoing, annual and planned one-off HR programmes and projects within the organisation.
- Develop action plans to mitigate risk arising from the implementation of situational HR solutions.
- Assess and review the impact of solutions, stay alert to changes in context and make appropriate corrections to strategy and solutions.
- Employee Relations & Industrial Relations
- Proactively manage employee relations issues, ensuring a positive and respectful workplace culture.
- Act as Company representative in managing unionised employees.
- Manage the disciplinary cases, conduct investigations, mediate conflicts, and provide guidance on performance management.
- Carry out appropriate and targeted employees’ engagement sessions.
- Talent Development
- Work closely with leaders to identify and develop high potential employees.
- Support talent acquisition efforts by collaborating with recruiters and hiring managers to attract and retain top talent.
- Work with C&B team on international assignees placement from and/or to Malaysia.
- Learning & Development
- Collaborate with CoE team to deliver and administer development initiatives.
- Maintain training record for employees.
- Monitor sources of funds and perform analysis of the fund utilisation eg. HRDC.
- HR Policies and Compliance
- Stay informed on HR laws and regulations to ensure company compliance.
- Review and update HR policies, ensuring they align with current legislation and Company Values.
- Data Analysis and Reporting
- Utilise HR metrics and analytics to assess the effectiveness of HR programs and initiatives.
- Generate monthly report on key HR metrics for leadership review.
- Audit
- Act as Company representative for any HR related audit.
🌍 Global Benefits Overview
💰 Competitive, market-aligned compensation
🎯 Discretionary global bonus scheme
📈 Discretionary Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) – for senior positions
🚗 Company car or car allowance – varies by region and role
🩺 Healthcare – tailored to regional locations
👶 Parental leave and family support – maternity, paternity, adoption (aligned with regional policies)
🏡 Working options – flexibility where it matters, based on role and business needs
📚 Learning & development opportunities – training, online platforms, buddy/mentorship programs, Internal Synthomer University with L&D offers
💙 Wellbeing support – employee assistance program (EAP), mental health resources, wellbeing initiatives
🌱 Retirement / pension contributions – plans vary by country
🤝 Culture of Inclusion – where everyone can thrive
🏆 Performance culture, global reward & recognition programmes
Skills Required
- Experience in strategic HR partnership with business leaders
- Ability to lead change management initiatives
- Proven track record in employee relations and conflict management
- Strong skills in talent development and workforce planning
- Knowledge of HR laws and compliance
What We Do
Synthomer is a business-to-business speciality chemicals producer. We create value for all our stakeholders by applying our expertise and innovation capabilities to provide high-performance water-based polymers and ingredients to a wide range of blue-chip customers in multiple attractive end markets. Synthomer are headquartered and stock listed in the UK. We have more than 30 operational sites across Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia including four innovation centres of excellence. The Company employs around 4,200 entrepreneurial, highly skilled employees with the expertise and experience to drive our success worldwide.
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