HR Manager

HR Manager - Swansea or Reading - Hybrid working position

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.

We are currently seeking an HR Manager to join our diverse and dynamic team. As an HR Manager at ICON, you will play a key role in delivering people-focused solutions that support our business strategy, culture, and employee experience. You will partner with leaders and employees to provide guidance on HR policies, talent management, and organisational development.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Acting as a trusted HR partner to business leaders, providing guidance on workforce planning, performance, and organisational changes.

• Managing employee relations matters, ensuring fair, consistent, and compliant resolution in line with company policies and local legislation.

• Supporting talent management activities, including recruitment, onboarding, development planning, and succession discussions.

• Implementing HR programmes and initiatives that support engagement, diversity, equity, inclusion, and wellbeing.

• Advising on compensation, benefits, and reward practices in partnership with specialist HR teams.

• Using HR data and analytics to identify trends, inform decisions, and support continuous improvement.

Your Profile:

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business, psychology, or a related field; HR certification is an advantage.

• Significant HR generalist experience, preferably within an international, matrixed organisation.

• Strong knowledge of local employment law and HR best practices.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust at all levels.

• Sound judgment, discretion, and problem-solving skills, with a solutions-oriented mindset.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.

What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements
• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
• Life assurance
• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here

Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

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