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Job summary
A leading recruitment agency is seeking an HR & Payroll Manager in Oxford to lead HR functions across 15 sites. The ideal candidate will have extensive HR experience in multi-site operations, strong employee relations skills, and payroll expertise. This role offers a salary of around £65,000 plus benefits and the opportunity to influence a growing, people-focused business.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Solid experience leading HR across multi-site operations.
- Strong employee relations and TUPE knowledge.
- Confident influencing at leadership level.
Responsibilities
- Lead on all aspects of HR and payroll across multiple sites.
- Line manage HR Administrator and Trainee HR Advisor.
- Enhance recruitment processes and relationships with agencies.
Skills
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HR & Payroll Manager Automotive Multi-Site Business
We're working with a growing multi-site business who are looking for a HR & Payroll Manager to lead their people function across 15 sites and a headcount of around c475 colleagues.
This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a hands-on, senior role where you'll have real impact on shaping the HR strategy, leading a small team, and ensuring smooth payroll delivery. Sitting on the Senior Leadership Team, you'll be a trusted voice on all things people, culture, and compliance.
As HR & Payroll Manager, you'll:
- Lead on all aspects of HR and payroll across multiple sites.
- Line manage and support the HR Administrator and Trainee HR Advisor.
- Own payroll input (Sage Cloud 50) and pension processing.
- Deliver and continuously improve HR processes, policies, contracts, and handbooks.
- Oversee employee relations, including investigations, disciplinaries and liaising with solicitors on complex cases.
- Lead on TUPE transfers, acquisitions, and organisational change projects.
- Champion wellbeing with welfare policies and EAP, and improve staff survey roll-out.
- Create and deliver induction and management development programmes.
- Partner with manufacturers on apprenticeships and support health & safety guidance.
- Enhance recruitment processes and relationships with agencies.
We're looking for a senior HR professional who:
- Has solid experience leading HR across multi-site operations.
- Brings strong employee relations and TUPE knowledge.
- Has payroll expertise.
- Is confident influencing at leadership level, while still being hands-on.
- Enjoys building, coaching, and developing a team.
- Is solutions-focused, resilient, and passionate about making a positive impact on people and culture.
- A senior role where you'll have autonomy and influence.
- The opportunity to make a real difference in a growing, people-focused business.
- A supportive leadership team that value HR as a key driver of success. Salary c 65,000 + Benefits
* The salary benchmark is based on the target salaries of market leaders in their relevant sectors. It is intended to serve as a guide to help Premium Members assess open positions and to help in salary negotiations. The salary benchmark is not provided directly by the company, which could be significantly higher or lower.
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