HR Manager

About the Position
Join an established professional services firm as an experienced HR Manager on a 6-month fixed term contract, where you will play a crucial role in uplifting HR capacity with a focus on employee experience, retention, and operational quality. This is an exciting opportunity to stabilise the HR function and lead a team while delivering key projects that enhance people operations.

What You'll Do

• Lead complex, sensitive, and high-risk employee relations cases, ensuring compliant, fair, and commercially sound outcomes.

• Co-lead organisational change programmes, including restructures and transformation projects, in partnership with senior HR leadership.

• Partner with business leaders to forecast and plan medium- and long-term resource needs.

• Strengthen people management capability through coaching, training, and one-to-one support.

• Review, update, and embed HR policies to ensure legal compliance and organisation-wide consistency.

• Support and deliver HR projects involving HRIS enhancements, wellbeing and engagement initiatives, and inclusion and culture programmes.

• Line manage and mentor junior HR team members, providing structured coaching to build capability and operational accuracy.

• Ensure consistent delivery of onboarding, lifecycle processes, compliance checks, and reporting across all HR operations.

What You Bring

• CIPD Level 7 (or equivalent experience).

• Experience leading complex employee relations cases.

• Experience delivering HR projects, ideally including HRIS implementations or enhancements.

• Experience developing junior team members through coaching and mentoring.

• Strong operational discipline with the ability to influence, prioritise, and multitask effectively.

What Would Make You Stand Out

• Experience with emerging technologies or methodologies in HR.

• Industry-specific knowledge or certifications.

• Leadership or mentoring experience.

Experience Required

• 5+ years of experience, with at least 2 years at managerial level.

Education

• CIPD Level 7 (or equivalent experience).

What We Offer

• Standard pension and healthcare benefits.

• Professional development opportunities.

• A supportive culture focused on growth and learning.