HR Manager

HR Manager

Location: Manchester
Salary: up to 50k DOE
Contract: Perm/ 37.5 hours per week

Were looking for an experienced hands-on HR Manager to deliver a practical responsive HR service across a varied employee population.

Reporting to the Head of HR youll take ownership of day-to-day HR operations employee relations and key projects. Youll work closely with managers and employees providing clear advice maintaining accurate records and helping improve the employee experience.

This is a generalist role with no direct reports offering responsibility across the full employee lifecycle.

The role

Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing employee relations cases including disciplinary grievance absence performance capability flexible working and family leave matters.
• Supporting organisational change consultation restructures and redundancy processes.
• Advising and coaching managers on employment matters applying policy and UK employment law consistently.
• Overseeing employee administration including offers contracts onboarding contractual changes and offboarding.
• Ensuring right-to-work checks employee records and documentation are accurate complete and maintained appropriately.
• Coordinating performance reviews development activity and recruitment support.
• Working with Finance and payroll providers to ensure monthly payroll inputs and changes are accurate and submitted on time.
• Supporting salary reviews and bonus processes administering benefits and resolving employee queries.
• Maintaining HR systems and producing accurate workforce reports covering headcount turnover absence and recruitment.
• Coordinating HR administration for international employees working with external payroll employment and advisory providers.
• Delivering HR projects updating policies and improving processes to strengthen service quality and reduce unnecessary administration.
• Supporting employee engagement wellbeing and retention initiatives.

About you

Youll bring:

• CIPD Level 5 progress towards this qualification or equivalent practical HR experience alongside at least five years relevant experience.
• Strong generalist HR experience and confidence managing a varied employee relations caseload.
• A sound working knowledge of UK employment law.
• Experience supporting organisational change consultation and redundancy processes.
• Experience with HR systems payroll inputs employee benefits and workforce reporting.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills including the ability to produce accurate employee documentation.
• Good Excel and data-handling skills including formulas analysis and presentation of workforce information.
• The confidence to advise managers challenge constructively and recognise when to escalate.
• Strong organisation discretion and attention to detail with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• A practical collaborative approach and a strong sense of ownership.

Experience supporting international employees or working in a regulated environment would be advantageous.

Required Experience:

Manager