Introduction to the HR Salary Survey 2007

Imprint Search & Selection’s HR Salary Survey provides an overview of the current senior HR hiring market within commercial organisations in the UK and Europe, as well as a guide to basic salary levels for senior level HR roles. The survey has been produced using data collated from assignments handled over the last 12 months by the HR Practice, as well as information provided from our network of HR Professionals.

Market Summary

2006 was an interesting year for the senior end of the HR market. The business of HR management has never been more complex. Regulations, technology, new business models, business globalisation and rapidly emerging markets around the world, have all added to the increasingly diverse role HR practitioners play within organisations today.

Commercial acumen is seen as a key requirement for most organisations when recruiting senior HR staff. They are increasingly expected to be business people who specialise in HR and who have the credibility to sit alongside the financial and commercial directors, contributing to the overall business performance. This has been a key requirement for most of the HR Director mandates we have completed this year, as well as some of the more commercial facing HR Business Partner assignments.

2006 was a buoyant year with more new assignments coming onto the market than in 2005, especially in the latter part of the year. Many of these roles were newly created positions rather than replacement hiring. In particular, organisations have recognised the ever pressing need to attract and retain talent and have addressed this in several ways. Firstly, there has been a significant increase in the number of in-house recruitment roles dedicated to talent acquisition, the recruitment brand and the candidate experience. Companies are thinking very carefully about how to identify, nurture and retain their top talent, as shown in the increased number of Talent Management positions recruited. Linked into this is the considerable increase in the hiring of Training and Development specialists as organisations place increasing emphasis on successfully managing and developing talent within their business.

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