HR Manager

Overview

As HR Manager for CS&D, you partner with leaders to drive people outcomes across multi-site operations. You’ll support workforce planning, change management, and employee engagement while coaching managers to own people responsibilities. You’ll lead the people agenda for the CS&D Investment Project, including the Avonmouth facility transition, and manage TUPE and employee relations across Warehouse and Transport. Regular site travel and collaboration with senior leaders shape the transformation of a growing business.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Pension scheme with employer contributions
• Life assurance
• Free parking

Responsibilities

• Be the dedicated HR partner for CS&D, building strong relationships with leaders to address workforce challenges and plan for design, succession, retention and development
• Ensure activity aligns with policies, governance, employment law and company standards, providing pragmatic, commercial HR advice
• Coach managers to enhance performance, engagement, accountability and development across teams
• Advise on and manage complex employee relations cases with fair, compliant outcomes
• Support organisational change through people plans, restructures, consultations and transformation projects
• Act as lead HR representative for the CS&D Investment Project, delivering people plans for design, workforce planning, recruitment, retention and change readiness
• Lead HR activities around consultation and transition for the new facility, ensuring governance alignment
• Provide HR leadership to the Portbury-based HR Advisor and enable consistent service delivery
• Contribute to policy development, process improvement and data-driven decision making across HR

Key requirements

• Proven experience as HR Manager, HR Business Partner or Senior HR Generalist in a complex, multi-site environment
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law, governance and risk management
• Experience managing complex employee relations and supporting change and transformation
• Ability to build trusted partnerships with senior stakeholders while maintaining objectivity
• Excellent coaching and influencing skills with ability to build manager capability
• Commercial awareness and ability to use HR data to support decisions
• Full driving licence and willingness to travel between locations

• Coaching and influencing
• Calm under pressure
• Pragmatic problem-solving
• UK employment law
• HR data, metrics and insight
• Governance and policy alignment

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