HR Manager

Resolian; Fordham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading HR service provider in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced HR Manager to oversee comprehensive HR services, local team management, and strategic support to enhance organizational culture and performance. The ideal candidate will have strong generalist HR experience, excellent communication skills, and the ability to autonomously manage day-to-day HR operations. This role offers an opportunity to lead initiatives in employee relations and learning and development while ensuring compliance with employment laws.

Qualifications

• Hands-on attitude towards daily HR operations and project work.
• Ability to build trust and work collaboratively within a diverse team.
• Highly organized with a methodical approach to record keeping.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive HR services to promote high-performance culture.
• Manage local HR team ensuring timely support to staff.
• Advise management on strategies to enhance organizational performance.
• Oversee employee relations cases such as grievances and performance issues.
• Ensure compliance with legal requirements and employment laws.
• Lead learning and development initiatives across the business.
• Responsible for accurate payroll and benefits administration.

Skills

HR generalist experience

Written and verbal communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Microsoft Office 365 proficiency

Autonomous decision-making

Line management experience

Tools

HRIS system experience

Job description

Responsibilities

• To provide a comprehensive HR service, which ensures that managers and employees are equipped with best practice to foster a high-performance culture.
• Manage the local UK HR team to ensure that the support provided to managers and employees is conducted and delivered in a timely way with issues resolved quickly and in line with policy guidance and good practice.
• Provide management with advice and strategic support in executing strategies to improve the organisational culture, performance, staff engagement and talent management in pursuit of exceptional performance.
• Provide day-to-day advice and guidance on complex employee relations cases, namely performance, disciplinaries, grievances, sickness and change management.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal requirements and employment law developments related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Provide coaching and challenge the management teams to ensure that lessons are learned and robust action plans are agreed, implemented and monitored.
• Supporting managers with the effective monitoring and management of employee absence including, sickness.
• Ownership of non-employees, including Consultants and ensuring compliance and IR35 checks are carried out to reduce risk to the business.
• Responsible for ensuring that monthly payroll and benefits administration is accurate and completed timely.
• Promote the use of the performance development and review process throughout the company, giving advice to managers and staff as required.
• Ensure managers maintain systems for the accurate and timely recording of PDRs.
• Lead on learning and development across the business, carrying out needs analysis to ensure learning meets need, including developing and maintaining training frameworks for key roles.
• Support the Senior HR Director with regional and global projects as and when required.
• Monthly and quarterly reporting in KPI’s.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills, Education & Qualifications

• Strong HR generalist experience in the UKA hands‑on attitude to managing and delivering day‑to‑day BAU work, as well as project work
• A real team player, who enjoys working in partnership with colleagues
• Solutions focused and able to implement processes to meet business needs and does not prioritise process over agile solutions
• Ability to make sound judgement and decisions autonomously in relation to day‑to‑day UK HR operations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Agile and flexible, with the ability to switch between tasks seamlessly
• Excellent interpersonal skills, and ability to build trust and work collaboratively in a diverse team
• Well versed in utilizing MicroSoft Office 365
• Prior HRIS system experience required, ideally with flexible benefits platforms knowledge (UKG Ready and Darwin as preferred examples);
• Highly organised, with a methodical approach to work and record keeping
• Line Management experience and / or demonstrated ability to coach and mentor HR professionals is preferential.