Location: LondonContract: 12 month FTC Full-time or Part-time (4 days)Salary: £50000
Reed HR are supporting a fashion brand based in London to oversee the people function in a standalone capacity. This is a high-impact role offering full ownership of HR operations and strategy, with the opportunity to shape a scalable and effective people framework within a growing organisation.
Working closely with senior leadership, the HR Manager will manage the entire employee lifecycle while acting as a trusted advisor on all people-related matters.
The Role
- Act as a strategic partner and trusted advisor to senior leadership on all HR and people matters
- Develop, implement, and evolve HR strategies aligned with business goals
- Take ownership of end-to-end recruitment across all functions
- Design, implement, and embed performance management frameworks
- Lead on employee relations matters, ensuring fair, consistent, and legally compliant outcomes
- Oversee compensation, benefits, and payroll processes
- Ensure full compliance with UK employment law and HR best practice
- Create and maintain scalable HR policies, systems, and reporting
- Support organisational design, change management, and business growth initiatives
About You
- Minimum 5+ years’ experience in a generalist HR role, ideally operating at HR Manager level
- Strong knowledge of UK employment law
- Proven experience working in a standalone HR role or small HR team environment
- Ideally CIPD Level 7 qualified
- Confident balancing strategic leadership with hands-on operational delivery
- Credible, influential communicator capable of advising and constructively challenging senior stakeholders
- Highly organised, self-motivated, and comfortable working autonomously
- Strong judgement with a pragmatic, people-focused approach
