Strategic HR Partner
Oldham
£35,000 – £50,000 (depending on experience)
Full-time, permanent
Working hours: 8:15am – 4:30pm, Monday to Friday (flexibility available on start and finish times)
Benefits: 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with buy/sell options), life assurance, private healthcare, onsite gym, and a wide range of additional employee benefits
Mpeople Recruitment are delighted to be working with a well-established and highly regarded manufacturing business in the Oldham area, who are looking to appoint a Strategic HR Partner.
This position is ideal for someone with experience in an HR Business Partner or People Partner role, or for a seasoned HR Advisor ready to progress into a more strategic, partnering-focused position.
Working closely with senior leaders, the role focuses on delivering a proactive and commercially aligned HR service, supporting the full employee lifecycle and driving effective people strategies across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities:- Collaborate with business leaders to align people strategies with organisational goals
- Act as a trusted advisor on talent, leadership, performance, and organisational structure
- Analyse HR data to identify trends and support performance and engagement improvements
- Provide practical, compliant solutions to complex people-related challenges
- Build strong relationships to coach, support, and develop leadership capability
- Review and enhance HR policies, processes, and best practice approaches
- Lead talent reviews, succession planning, and development initiatives
- Act as a key HR contact for managers, providing high-quality guidance and support
- Work alongside site-based HR teams to proactively resolve employee matters
- Manage employee relations cases, including investigations and disciplinary processes
- Drive engagement, wellbeing, and diversity, equality & inclusion initiatives
- Lead performance management processes and continuous improvement activities
- Support the development of management capability through a hands-on approach
- Keep up to date with external trends to improve HR practices and tools
Essential Skills & Experience:- CIPD Level 5 or Level 7 (or currently studying towards)
- Previous experience in an HR partnering role, or at HR Advisor level with progression ambition
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills at all levels
- Experience supporting organisational change
- Ability to build trusted, effective working relationships across the business
- Strategic and commercially aware approach to HR
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Proven experience handling complex employee relations matters with solid employment law knowledge
- Ability to identify risks and opportunities relating to people management
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
Desirable:- Experience within manufacturing or a similar industrial setting
- Exposure to working with international or European teams
- Experience within a unionised environment
Due to the high volume of applications received, Mpeople Recruitment may not be able to respond to every applicant. If you do not hear from us within 5 working days, please consider your application unsuccessful. We wish you every success in your job search.
