About the Position

Join an established professional services firm as an experienced HR Manager on a 6-month fixed term contract, where you will play a crucial role in uplifting HR capacity with a focus on employee experience, retention, and operational quality. This is an exciting opportunity to stabilise the HR function and lead a team while delivering key projects that enhance people operations.

Start Date: Flexible

What You'll Do

Lead complex, sensitive, and high-risk employee relations cases, ensuring compliant, fair, and commercially sound outcomes.
Co-lead organisational change programmes, including restructures and transformation projects, in partnership with senior HR leadership.
Partner with business leaders to forecast and plan medium- and long-term resource needs.
Strengthen people management capability through coaching, training, and one-to-one support.
Review, update, and embed HR policies to ensure legal compliance and organisation-wide consistency.
Support and deliver HR projects involving HRIS enhancements, wellbeing and engagement initiatives, and inclusion and culture programmes.
Line manage and mentor junior HR team members, providing structured coaching to build capability and operational accuracy.
Ensure consistent delivery of onboarding, lifecycle processes, compliance checks, and reporting across all HR operations.

What You Bring

CIPD Level 7 (or equivalent experience).
Experience leading complex employee relations cases.
Experience delivering HR projects, ideally including HRIS implementations or enhancements.
Experience developing junior team members through coaching and mentoring.
Strong operational discipline with the ability to influence, prioritise, and multitask effectively.

What Would Make You Stand Out

Experience with emerging technologies or methodologies in HR.
Industry-specific knowledge or certifications.
Leadership or mentoring experience.

Experience Required

5+ years of experience, with at least 2 years at managerial level.

Education

CIPD Level 7 (or equivalent experience).

What We Offer

Standard pension and healthcare benefits.
Professional development opportunities.
A supportive culture focused on growth and learning.

VIA MATCH LIMITED

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