Recruitment & HR Advisor

Greater Glasgow | £42,200 - £47,510 + Excellent Benefits | 12-Month FTC (Mat Cover)

Recruitment is at the heart of this role. But it's far from all of it.

Syme Drummond is delighted to be exclusively supporting a highly respected Scottish employer with the appointment of a Recruitment & HR Advisor to join their collaborative People team on a 12-month fixed-term contract.

If you enjoy building excellent relationships with hiring managers and delivering an outstanding recruitment experience, whilst also having the opportunity to use your HR experience, this is a fantastic opportunity to join a business where people genuinely matter.

About the Organisation

Our customer is a long-established, family-owned Scottish business with a global presence and an outstanding reputation within its sector.

With colleagues around the world, the business has built its reputation on exceptional products, investing in its people, encouraging collaboration, and creating an environment where individuals can develop and thrive.

The Opportunity

Joining an experienced and supportive HR team, this role offers the opportunity to take ownership of recruitment across the Central Services functions whilst also broadening your HR experience.

Recruitment will form the core of your remit, making up around 75% of the role. You'll support hiring managers, proactively source applicants, manage recruitment from briefing through to offer and deliver an excellent applicant experience throughout.

Alongside recruitment, you'll also get involved in a range of operational HR activities, supporting employee lifecycle administration, HR projects and wider People initiatives. It's an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys recruitment but doesn't want to lose the HR side of their role.

What You'll Be Doing

• Managing end-to-end recruitment across the Central Services functions.
• Building strong relationships with hiring managers and acting as their recruitment partner throughout the hiring process.
• Proactively sourcing applicants using LinkedIn Recruiter and other direct attraction methods.
• Managing interviews, recruitment administration, ATS activity and reporting.
• Delivering an excellent applicant experience from first conversation through to offer.
• Supporting day-to-day HR activity, employee lifecycle administration and wider HR projects.
• Working collaboratively with the wider HR team to support business priorities as they evolve.

About You

You'll already have experience within an internal recruitment, HR Advisor or blended Recruitment & HR role and enjoy working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You'll also bring:

• Strong end-to-end recruitment experience.
• Experience sourcing applicants directly using LinkedIn Recruiter or similar platforms.
• Generalist HR knowledge across the employee lifecycle.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• A proactive, flexible approach and a genuine passion for delivering a great applicant experience.

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to join a business where people genuinely matter. You'll become part of an experienced and collaborative HR team who work closely together, support one another and are passionate about delivering an exceptional service across the business.

Whether your background is primarily recruitment with exposure to HR, or HR with strong recruitment experience, this role offers the opportunity to broaden your experience whilst working for one of Scotland's most respected employers.

Interested?

If you’d like a confidential chat, we’d love to hear from you! Contact lynne.frield@symedrummond.co.uk to find out more

Reward & Payroll Specialist | Cumbernauld

4 -Month FTC | Hybrid

Are you a payroll expert with experience across reward and benefits?

Or perhaps you’re a Reward specialist with a strong hands-on payroll background?

We are delighted to be exclusively supporting our customer, AG Barr, the iconic business behind some of the UK’s favourite drinks. We’re looking for a Reward & Payroll Specialist to provide cover during a period of absence within the team.

This is a hands-on role combining reward and flexible benefits activity with specialist payroll support. You’ll need to be self-sufficient, comfortable working with data and ready to hit the ground running.

What You’ll Do

• Payroll: Act as the technical point of escalation for the People Co-ordinators, working with the outsourced payroll provider to resolve complex queries, validate outputs and strengthen reconciliations.
• Reward and Benefits: Support the flexible benefits programme, reward reporting, benefits enrolment and wider reward projects.
• Compliance: Support P11Ds, National Minimum Wage checks, company car submissions and preparations for PBIK changes.
• Projects: Contribute to employee share plan activity, the digitisation of Long-Term Incentive Plans and ongoing process improvements.

What We Need

• Strong practical experience across UK payroll, reconciliations and complex payroll queries.
• Experience working with an outsourced payroll provider or within a managed payroll service.
• Previous reward or flexible benefits experience, or a genuine interest in developing further within this area.
• Confidence working with data using Excel or Google Sheets, including VLOOKUPs and pivot tables.
• A positive, self-sufficient approach and the confidence to question or challenge when something doesn’t look right.

Why AG Barr?

• You’ll join an ambitious, friendly and collaborative People team where you’ll be trusted to get stuck in, share your knowledge and make an impact quickly.
• The role offers hybrid working, with three days per week in Cumbernauld and two from home, alongside flexibility around start and finish times.
• This is an immediate requirement, so we’re particularly keen to hear from applicants who are available now or at short notice.

Ready to make your mark? Apply today!

Or reach out to lynne.friel@symedrummond.co.uk for further information.

People Business Partner

Permanent | Full Time | Hybrid

At Syme Drummond, we're delighted to have been exclusively retained by Right There to appoint a number of People Business Partners, joining the organisation at an exciting stage in the evolution of its People function.

Following an exciting period of transformation, they're now looking to appoint a number of People Business Partners who will play a key role in shaping a modern, proactive and highly visible People team.

Why this role?

This isn't a role for someone who wants to sit behind policies or advise from the sidelines.

It's for someone who enjoys being around the table.

Someone who asks the right questions, challenges constructively, builds trusted relationships and helps leaders make better decisions.

You'll become embedded within your business areas, understanding operational challenges, coaching managers and influencing organisational decisions that genuinely improve outcomes for colleagues and the people the organisation supports.

You'll have the opportunity to shape new ways of working, strengthen manager capability and help create a People function that's recognised as a trusted partner across the organisation.

What you'll be doing

Working closely with senior leaders and the wider People team, you'll:

• Partner with leaders to develop people plans that support organisational priorities.
• Coach, support and constructively challenge managers, building confidence and capability.
• Lead and support organisational change, ensuring initiatives are successfully embedded.
• Influence decision-making using insight, data and sound commercial judgement.
• Drive improvements across employee engagement, organisational effectiveness and people practices.
• Support workforce planning, succession planning and organisational development initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes and improve ways of working.
• Build trusted relationships across the organisation, becoming a credible and valued Business Partner.

What we're looking for

You'll already have experience operating as an HR Business Partner or within a broad, strategic HR generalist role.

More importantly, you'll be someone who:

• Builds credibility quickly through sound judgement and a collaborative approach.
• Enjoys influencing without relying on authority.
• Is naturally curious and takes time to understand a business before recommending solutions.
• Is comfortable coaching, supporting and constructively challenging managers.
• Balances empathy with accountability.
• Thinks strategically whilst remaining hands-on when needed.
• Enjoys taking ownership and seeing initiatives through to completion.
• Gets genuine satisfaction from embedding lasting change rather than simply recommending it.

Why apply?

This is an opportunity to join an organisation at a genuinely exciting point in its journey.

The leadership team has a clear vision for the future and is investing heavily to make that vision a reality.

If you're looking for a role where your relationships matter, your voice is heard and your work leaves a lasting impact, we'd love to hear from you.

This isn't a role for someone who wants to sit behind HR processes.

It's for someone who wants to influence decisions, build relationships and make things happen.

This organisation isn't short of ideas. The foundations are already there. The ambition is there. The investment is there.

Now they're looking for Business Partners who can help bring it all to life.

People who enjoy turning strategy into action, building manager capability and ensuring great ideas don't remain good intentions.

Contact our team for a confidential chat – lynne.friel@symedrummond.co.uk charlotte.plummer@symedrummond.co.uk. Please note that Syme Drummond has been exclusively retained to manage this appointment. Any unsolicited CVs submitted directly to the client will be forwarded to Syme Drummond and considered as introduction

Learning & Development Business Partner

Permanent | Full Time | Hybrid

At Syme Drummond, we're delighted to have been exclusively retained by Right There to appoint a Learning & Development Business Partner as they continue investing in the future of their People function.

This isn't a role focused on delivering training.

It's an opportunity to shape how learning, leadership and organisational capability develop across an entire organisation.

You'll join a newly designed People function, work alongside an ambitious leadership team and play a key role in creating a culture where learning becomes part of everyday life.

If you're looking for an opportunity where your ideas will influence strategy - not simply deliver activity - this is one worth exploring.

Why this role?

The foundations are already in place.

There are passionate people, great ideas and a genuine commitment to developing colleagues.

What they're looking for now is someone who can bring everything together.

Someone who can confidently assess organisational learning needs, shape priorities, influence senior stakeholders and ensure learning delivers meaningful outcomes across the organisation.

This is a highly visible role where you'll become the organisation's trusted Learning & Development specialist, working closely with leaders to strengthen capability, develop future talent and create sustainable organisational change.

What you'll be doing

Working closely with the Head of People and wider People team, you'll:

• Develop and deliver an organisation-wide Learning & Development strategy.
• Identify organisational capability needs and translate them into practical learning solutions.
• Design leadership and management development programmes.
• Build meaningful learning pathways across the employee lifecycle.
• Partner with managers and senior leaders to understand development priorities.
• Champion coaching, continuous learning and knowledge sharing.
• Shape the future of digital and blended learning.
• Measure the impact of learning initiatives and use insight to drive continual improvement.
• Ensure learning is embedded into everyday practice rather than becoming a standalone activity.

What we're looking for

You'll already have experience within Learning & Development, ideally within a strategic or business partnering environment.

More importantly, you'll be someone who:

• Has broad Learning & Development experience across organisational capability, leadership development and learning strategy.
• Builds credibility quickly and is confident influencing senior stakeholders.
• Enjoys understanding how organisations work before designing solutions.
• Thinks strategically whilst remaining pragmatic and delivery-focused.
• Is comfortable coaching and constructively challenging managers.
• Can confidently oversee multiple learning priorities across an organisation.
• Enjoys bringing people together and turning ideas into lasting change.
• Measures success by organisational impact rather than simply learning activity.

Experience of leadership development, blended learning, digital learning or psychometrics would be advantageous, but your approach, credibility and ability to influence are equally important.

Why apply?

This is an opportunity to help define the future of Learning & Development within a purpose-led organisation.

You'll have the freedom to influence strategy, work alongside senior leaders and build capability that genuinely changes how the organisation develops its people.

If you're looking for a role where your expertise will be valued, your relationships will matter and your work will leave a lasting legacy, we'd love to hear from you.

Drop us our team a message for a confidential chat – lynne.friel@symedrummond.co.uk charlotte.plummer@symedrummond.co.uk. Please note that Syme Drummond has been exclusively retained to manage this appointment. Any unsolicited CVs submitted directly to the client will be forwarded to Syme Drummond and considered as introductions made by Syme Drummond.

Employee Experience Support

The NWH Group | Edinburgh Based | Drivers Licence Required | £29,000 - £32,000 + £6,000 Car Allowance

This is not your typical HR role.

Syme Drummond is delighted to be exclusively partnering with The NWH Group to support the appointment of an Employee Experience Support within their growing HR team.

At The NWH Group, they understand people stay where they feel valued, listened to and supported - and that’s exactly what this role is all about!

This opportunity has been created to bring in someone who genuinely enjoys being around people, building relationships and making a difference to employees day-to-day.

You won’t be sat behind a desk all day dealing with policies and paperwork. Instead, you’ll be out and about across sites, chatting with drivers, workshop teams, operational staff and managers, helping make sure people feel supported, heard and looked after throughout their time with the business.

The NWH Group is a second-generation family-run recycling and waste management business with over 370 employees across Scotland and the North-East of England. Despite continued growth, they’ve worked hard to maintain the down-to-earth, close-knit culture that makes the business what it is today.

This role has been created to help strengthen that even further.

What will you be doing?

You’ll act as a friendly and approachable point of contact across the business, helping improve onboarding, employee experience and retention - particularly within operational teams and the driver workforce.

Some days you might be:

• Checking in with new starters to see how they’re settling in
• Visiting sites and building relationships with drivers and operational teams
• Listening to feedback and helping resolve any day-to-day frustrations
• Spotting little issues before they become bigger problems
• Supporting managers with employee wellbeing and communication
• Working closely with operations to improve the day-to-day employee experience
• Travelling between sites to stay connected with employees across the business

This is a hands-on, people-focused role where building trust and relationships is absolutely key.

What are we looking for?

For this role, attitude and people skills matter far more than a polished corporate background.

• High emotional intelligence with the ability to read between the lines
• Approachable, grounded and easy to talk to
• Comfortable building relationships with drivers, workshop teams, senior managers and office staff alike
• An early riser! This opportunity offers daily 6am starts, with early finishes. It’s not your typical 9am-5pm.
• Enjoys being visible across the business rather than sitting behind a desk all day – you will travel most weeks to other sites across Scotland and Newcastle.
• Confident, resilient and comfortable in a practical, fast-paced environment
• Naturally solutions-focused and able to connect the dots to improve employee experience
• Understands what “good” looks like across the full employee journey, from onboarding through to senior long-standing professionals
• Genuinely enjoys helping people and making a positive difference

Experience within environments such as logistics, transport, manufacturing, construction, retail, hospitality or other operational businesses would be highly beneficial.

You don’t need a traditional HR background to be successful in this role. Previous HR or people-focused experience is welcome, however applicants from customer-facing or operational environments with strong relationship-building skills are equally encouraged to apply.

If you’re someone who enjoys working with people, thrives in a hands-on environment and wants to be part of a business where relationships and culture genuinely matter -we’d love to hear from you!

Apply now or email Charlotte for a confidential chat – Charlotte.plummer@symedrummond.co.uk

Senior HR Advisor (Part-Time)
North Lanarkshire | Permanent | Onsite | 20 Hours Per Week
 

Experienced HR professional looking for a part-time opportunity to fit around your life whilst still genuinely making an impact?

Syme Drummond is delighted to be supporting a market-leading Scottish FMCG business with the appointment of a confident and experienced Senior HR Advisor to provide evening and weekend HR support within a fast-paced, 24/7 operational environment based in North Lanarkshire.

This is a true generalist role offering real autonomy and the opportunity to become a trusted HR presence supporting operational teams across a large and varied workforce. Created to provide dedicated HR support across key shift periods, this role ensures managers and employees have access to practical, commercially focused HR guidance when they need it most.

Working closely with the wider HR team whilst operating independently during evening and weekend shifts, this role will suit someone who enjoys a hands-on environment, is confident building credibility quickly and can provide calm, pragmatic support across a broad range of people matters.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting managers across a broad range of employee relations and operational HR matters within a busy and fast-paced environment
• Providing guidance and support through disciplinary, grievance, absence, performance and capability matters, ensuring fairness, consistency and compliance
• Supporting managers with absence management, return-to-work processes and wider attendance-related discussions
• Coaching and mentoring managers on people matters and helping build confidence and capability across operational teams
• Supporting recruitment, onboarding and wider workforce activity, including contractual changes and employee lifecycle processes
• Contributing to wider people initiatives and helping strengthen HR processes and ways of working where required
• Maintaining a visible and credible HR presence during evening and weekend operations, building trusted relationships and providing practical, solutions-focused support

About You

• Already operating at experienced Senior HR Advisor level, or within a similar advisory capacity
• Confident managing more complex employee relations matters and providing practical, commercially focused advice
• Comfortable working independently and making sound decisions within a fast-paced environment
• Able to build credibility quickly with managers and operational teams
• Highly organised, resilient and comfortable managing changing priorities
• Committed to delivering a positive employee experience and supporting operational success
• Experience gained within manufacturing would be advantageous, although we would also welcome applications from those with experience across other fast-paced settings such as logistics, retail or similar.
• CIPD Level 5 qualified, or working towards this, would be advantageous.

Working Pattern

Monday 3pm–7pm
Tuesday–Thursday 7pm–11pm
Plus 4 hours at the weekend

This is a fully onsite role based in North Lanarkshire.

Full details to follow.

Interested in finding out more? I’d love to hear from you. Drop me a message for a confidential chat – lynne.friel@symedrummond.co.uk