Venture Life

HR and Training Manager

What’s on offer:

• Competitive salary: £50,000 – £70,000 per annum (DOE), bonus opportunity plus benefits package
• Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Discretionary Share Options (on completion of probation)
• Hybrid/flexible working model
• A dynamic and inclusive work culture
• Professional development and international growth opportunities

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of the HR function in the UK, including talent acquisition, employee relations, performance management, compensation & benefits, compliance, on-boarding and induction (including product knowledge training).
• Provide support and coordination for HR activities in European (Spain / The Netherlands) and US locations, ensuring local HR practices are compliant and consistent with company policies.
• Take ownership for standardising HR procedures, ensuring that these meet the required quality standards and compliance relevant to business operations.
• Support integration activities for new acquisitions, ensuring harmonisation of HR procedures and policies.
• Advise and coach managers on employee relations issues, organisational changes, and people management best practices.
• Collaborate with leadership to drive culture, engagement, and internal communications initiatives across regions.
• Manage international HR processes and collaboration with external legal or payroll partners.
• Support the implementation of global HR programs at the regional level (e.g., learning & development, DEI, succession planning).
• Implement and drive forward the annual training calendar, ensuring appropriate and relevant groupwide training coverage for continuous learning & development across all levels.
• Analyse HR metrics and provide insight to support workforce planning and organisational development.
• Identify, implement and monitor HR and Training KPIs for the Group which provide clear quality objectives for process performance, training effectiveness and continuous improvement.
• Ensure HR documentation and employee handbooks are up-to-date and localised for each country where necessary.
• Facilitate and support the delivery of quality management principles, ensuring that HR procedures adhere to these.

Role Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field (CIPD qualification preferred).
• 5+ years of progressive HR experience, with at least 2 years in a managerial role.
• Strong working knowledge of UK employment law; familiarity with European HR regulations is a plus and US would be advantageous.
• Experience managing or coordinating HR functions across multiple countries.
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and communication skills.
• High level of cultural awareness and sensitivity to work in a multi-country environment.
• Fluency in English required; proficiency in other European languages is an advantage.

Role Competencies

Preferred Experience

• Experience in an international or matrix organization.
• Background in scaling HR functions during periods of growth or transformation.
• Previous involvement in HRIS implementation or global HR process alignment.
• Previous experience working within a regulated and/or quality certified environment (i.e ISO9001, ISO13485, ISO27001, ISO14001, UKMDR,EUMDR,MDSAP, etc)

Environment and Culture

VLG is a fast-paced, determined, and agile business. Commercially led, the current structure of our teams enables quick decision-making and the opportunity to work within a broad and varied remit.

Our culture gives our people the opportunity to influence and collaborate in a friendly and open environment. We also recognise and develop potential within our teams.

We look for the following interpersonal skills in our people which demonstrate behaviours representing our values of partnership, empowerment, precision, and potential:

• Customer focussed – We recognise that our customers are key to our success
• Innovation – We like our employees to seek out better ways of working
• Strong decision-making capabilities – Ability to meet multiple demands and be deadline-driven
• An active listener – Using coaching and mentoring as a preferred style of managing
• Committed to developing their team – and the wider business, capable of and willing to participate in continuous learning
• Competent at managing change – independently and at a team level
• Willing to “pitch in” – getting involved at all levels
• Ambassadors – To be always ambassadors of VLG
• Able to work under pressure – and maintain a positive manner