HR & Professional Development Manager

Overview

In this role you partner with senior leaders to drive HR practice, people development and wellbeing across a boutique, high-profile professional services firm. You will lead talent development, coaching, and performance processes while ensuring compliant policies and a positive, high-performing culture. You’ll advise managers on ER, employment law and people issues, delivering insights to inform decision-making. This is a hands-on role with broad scope across recruitment, onboarding, L&D and engagement to shape the firm’s people agenda.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Partners on people-related initiatives
• Oversee people development, talent management, and appraisals
• Provide coaching and act as main HR point of contact
• Advise managers on employee relations, performance, and employment law
• Maintain HR policies, processes, and documentation
• Manage recruitment, onboarding, performance and salary reviews, and absence
• Support disciplinary, grievance, and family leave matters
• Maintain HR systems, records, and people data
• Coach employees in their professional development
• Identify learning opportunities across the business
• Drive engagement, wellbeing, and culture initiatives
• Provide HR reporting and insights to support decision-making

Key requirements

• Experienced HR & People Development professional
• Background in law/professional services
• Interest in coaching and leading people development initiatives

• collaboration
• coaching
• stakeholder management
• HR policies and processes
• employment law knowledge
• HR systems and data management

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