HR Manager

Overview

In this role you will oversee end-to-end employee lifecycle management and provide policy guidance across the business. You will lead a small HR team, ensuring operational excellence in payroll, benefits, and reward processes while driving engagement and culture initiatives. You will use HR analytics to inform decisions and deliver organisational change projects that support the company’s people strategy. This role offers a hands-on, strategic partner to managers across the organisation, shaping people practices to scale with business needs.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end employee lifecycle management
• Employee relations, performance management, and policy guidance
• Lead and develop a small HR team
• Oversee payroll, benefits, and reward processes
• Drive employee engagement, wellbeing, and culture initiatives
• HR analytics, reporting, and continuous process improvement
• Delivery of HR projects and organisational change initiatives

Key requirements

• CIPD-qualified with proven advising experience
• Strong hands-on operational HR expertise
• Excellent stakeholder management
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
• Experience leading HR processes and driving people-practice improvements

• stakeholder management
• sound judgment
• strategic thinking
• HR analytics and reporting
• payroll oversight
• employee benefits and reward process oversight

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