Senior HR Manager

  • Roberts Webb Recruitment
  • Manchester, Lancashire
  • Aug 19, 2026
Full time HR / Recruitment

Job Description

We are delighted to be partnering with an impressive business in Manchester who are looking to recruit a Senior HR Manager to join their team.

This role would suit a generalist HR professional who enjoys being operational as well as strategic, is able to navigate the ever changing HR landscape in a fast growing business whilst managing a small yet effective team. Must be passionate about employee engagement and wellbeing and enjoy building relationships at all levels.

Location: Hybrid working, 3 days Manchester office

Salary: Up to £70k per annum

Benefits: Excellent

Overview of role and key responsibilities

  • Support senior leaders across the business, coaching, guiding and improving leadership capability
  • Organisational design, succession planning and workforce planning
  • Leading projects
  • Overseeing HR operations including policies, processes, systems and technology
  • Identify opportunities to improve
  • Ensure compliance, governance and best practice are embedded across the business
  • Manage an ER caseload (escalated issues)
  • Give legally sound advice and guidance to managers on employment law
  • Supporting Managers with performance management reviews including objective setting
  • Work closely with L&D for development opportunities across the business, succession planning and internal career development initiative and training
  • Drive the engagement and values proposition through the business focusing on employee experience, employee wellbeing and inclusion
  • Own HR metrics and data, reporting and dashboards for key monitoring and to inform business decisions

Skills and experience

  • This role would suit someone who has strong experience of operating at a Senior HR Manager/BP level previously ideally within a dynamic or fast growing business
  • Ideally level 7 CIPD Qualification (or equivalent experience)
  • Able to effectively manage complex ER issues
  • Strong HR generalist - enjoys operational and strategic HR work
  • Management experience
  • Exceptional relationship building skills able to partner and influence senior leaders
  • Experience of delivering organisational change and HR projects

Roberts Webb Recruitment are acting as a Recruitment Agency in relation to this role