HR Manager

Parkside; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global company is seeking an experienced HR Manager to become a trusted advisor to business leaders in the UK and Nordics. This role demands expertise in HR generalist functions within a multinational context, focusing on employee relations, change management, and talent development. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of HR experience, strong knowledge of labour laws, and excellent stakeholder management skills. Join to drive impactful HR initiatives that enhance performance and organizational culture.

Qualifications

• 7+ years' HR experience in international, fast-paced environments.
• Strong knowledge of labour law, employee relations, talent management, and change management.
• Proven stakeholder management and HR project delivery experience.

Responsibilities

• Partnering with managers on talent management, employee development, and performance.
• Leading complex employee relations cases, including investigations and disciplinary actions.
• Ensuring compliance with local labour laws and internal policies.
• Supporting workforce and succession planning, and organisational restructuring.
• Identifying training needs and delivering leadership development initiatives.

Skills

HR generalist expertise

Labour law knowledge

Employee relations

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Change management

Conflict resolution

Fluency in English

Adaptability

Job description

Role overview:-

The HR Manager will act as a trusted advisor to business leaders across the UK and Nordics, driving HR initiatives that enhance performance, engagement, and culture. This is a hands‑on role requiring strong HR generalist expertise in a multinational environment, with responsibility for employee relations, change management, and talent development.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Partnering with managers on talent management, employee development, and performance
• Leading complex ER cases, including investigations and disciplinary actions
• Ensuring compliance with local labour laws and internal policies
• Supporting workforce and succession planning, as well as organisational restructuring
• Identifying training needs and delivering leadership development initiatives
• Analysing HR trends and metrics to improve engagement, retention, and efficiency
• Driving HR initiatives that strengthen employee experience and workplace culture
• Liaising with labour authorities and managing HR budgets/cost efficiency projects
• Collaborating with regional and local cross functional teams to align HR with business goals

Experience:

• 7+ years' HR experience in international, fast paced environments
• Strong knowledge of labour law, employee relations, talent management, and change management
• Proven stakeholder management and HR project delivery experience
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills
• Analytical, strategic, and confident operating across multiple markets
• Adaptable, solutions focused, and fluent in English

Ideal candidate:

A strong communicator with excellent stakeholder management skills, collaborative, people focused, resilient, tenacious, proactive, and operating with a growth mindset. Stakeholder management is particularly important to the HM, so needs the candidate to have managed various senior stakeholders before. Also, the role will focus on regions including the UK and Nordics, so ideal candidate will need to have experience and knowledge of these labour laws or experience with UK and additional regions across Europe ideally please. Also, as we are a global company and employ over 8,600 people, we need the ideal candidate to have ideally worked for an international or global company previously of at least 2000+ employees.