Human Resources Manager

Curveball; Swansea; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Part time

Job summary

Curveball in Llansamlet, Swansea is seeking an experienced, hands-on HR Manager for a part-time, predominantly on-site role. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits as part of a practical people agenda.

You will partner with the CEO and managers to translate business priorities into a clear people plan, own recruitment and onboarding, coach leaders, and build robust people reporting while coordinating payroll inputs.

Qualifications

• CIPD Level 5 qualification or equivalent; Level 7 is advantageous.
• Strong generalist HR experience, ideally in an SME or operational environment.
• Solid employee-relations knowledge and confidence working with managers and senior leaders.
• Experience improving performance management, recruitment, manager capability, engagement or people processes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CEO, Executive Team and managers to turn business priorities into a practical people plan and consistent management standards.
• Own recruitment, onboarding, probation, performance management, development, succession and retention processes.
• Coach managers through performance, attendance, conduct and employee-relations matters; use specialist support providers and ensure actions are implemented consistently.
• Build useful people reporting covering headcount, recruitment, turnover, absence, probation, performance/development, training, engagement and material risks.
• Strengthen manager capability and accountability through practical coaching, tools, training and clear minimum standards.
• Own the internal HR operating model end to end: complete core HR administration and coordinate with outsourced payroll inputs.

Skills

HR generalist

Employee relations

People analytics

Coaching managers

Education

CIPD Level 5

CIPD Level 7 advantageous

Tools

BreatheHR

Job description

Current location: Llansamlet, Swansea | Part-time (c. 3 days / 0.6 FTE) | Predominantly on-site | Competitive salary & benefits

Curveball is looking for an experienced, hands-on HR Manager to create clear internal ownership of our people agenda. This is a practical, sleeves-rolled-up role: the HR Manager will personally handle the core HR administration as well as improving management capability, performance, culture, consistency and people processes.

The role

• Partner with the CEO, Executive Team and managers to turn business priorities and company values into a practical people plan and consistent management standards.
• Own the quality of recruitment, onboarding, probation, performance management, development, succession and retention processes.
• Coach managers through performance, attendance, conduct and employee-relations matters; use our specialist support providers for advice and ensure agreed actions are implemented consistently.
• Build useful people reporting covering headcount, recruitment, turnover, absence, probation, performance/development, training, engagement and material risks.
• Strengthen manager capability and accountability through practical coaching, tools, training and clear minimum standards.
• Own the internal HR operating model end to end: personally complete core HR administration, maintain effective disciplines, using specialist outsourced support providers to ensure accurate/timely people inputs into the outsourced payroll process.

About you

• CIPD Level 5 or equivalent professional HR qualification/experience; Level 7 is advantageous.
• Strong generalist HR experience, ideally in an SME or operational environment.
• Sound employee-relations knowledge and confidence working closely with managers and senior leaders.
• Evidence of improving performance management, recruitment, manager capability, engagement, culture or people processes.
• Comfortable using HR systems/data and practical KPIs and willing to personally complete routine HR administration as part of the role; experience coordinating payroll inputs is useful. A self-starting, curious and commercially aware approach is essential.

A new role with genuine scope to shape people management across the business, direct access to senior decision-makers and useful support already in place: Guardian Support for specialist advice, BreatheHR and outsourced payroll preparation. This is hands-on HR: routine administration sits with the HR Manager, not a separate admin layer. We envisage approximately three days per week, with regular on-site presence and flexibility around key employee matters.

Package: Competitive salary + annual bonus + 33 days' leave (including bank holidays and birthday leave) + Medicash + Death in Service + workplace pension.