People & Culture Manager

Burton Recruitment Limited; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly bonuses

Job summary

Burton Recruitment is supporting a well-established, fast-scaling business in Lancashire to appoint a dedicated people professional who will own the HR function. This standalone role will manage day-to-day HR, employee relations and people ops, while driving culture as the business grows.

Reporting directly to the COO, you’ll build the function, support managers with performance conversations, lead engagement initiatives and coordinate recruitment and onboarding to create a genuinely great place

Qualifications

• Solid HR generalist background with confident employment law knowledge.
• Experience in a growing, fast-moving business.
• Hands-on enough to build the function rather than inherit a finished one.

Responsibilities

• Owning day-to-day HR matters: contracts, policies, grievances, disciplinaries, and employee concerns.
• Supporting managers and department heads with difficult conversations, performance management, and development.
• Taking ownership of employee engagement, wellbeing, and recognition initiatives.
• Supporting recruitment, onboarding, and probation reviews.
• Helping coordinate appraisals and performance review processes.
• Bringing fresh ideas around culture and experience to the table.

Skills

HR generalist

Employment law

People operations

Stakeholder management

Job description

Burton Recruitment has been retained on behalf of this well-established, fast-scaling business.

Approaching 40 employees and growing, they’ve reached the point where they need a dedicated people professional to own the HR function and actively drive culture as the business scales.

Reporting directly to the COO, you’ll take ownership of the full people function as a standalone hire. Day-to-day HR, employee relations, and people ops on one side, with culture, engagement, recognition, and making this a genuinely great place to work on the other.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Owning day-to-day HR matters: contracts, policies, grievances, disciplinaries, and employee concerns
• Supporting managers and department heads with difficult conversations, performance management, and development
• Taking ownership of employee engagement, wellbeing, and recognition initiatives
• Supporting recruitment, onboarding, and probation reviews
• Helping coordinate appraisals and performance review processes
• Bringing fresh ideas around culture and experience to the table

The ideal candidate:

• Solid HR generalist background with confident employment law knowledge
• Experience in a growing, fast-moving business
• Personality that matches the brief: energetic, approachable, commercially minded, and practical
• Someone hands‑on enough to build the function rather than inherit a finished one

In return the company offers an exceptional working environment with great people, plenty of socials, monthly bonuses and more.