HR Manager (Transformation)

HR Manager, £65,000 - £70,000 Per Annum, Manchester

Macmillan Davies is proud to be partnering with a global professional service for a HR Manager. This role will focus on coaching and upskilling managers on day-to-day people matters within business services teams, while providing expert oversight of more complex or high-risk cases. It ensures consistency and compliance, enabling a stronger focus on value-added activities.

Key Responsibilities:

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• Partner with leaders and managers to provide practical HR advice that supports business goals and reinforces organisational values.
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• Support workforce planning and resourcing, ensuring effective recruitment practices, coaching managers on interviewing, and promoting quality feedback processes.
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• Oversee onboarding to ensure a positive and consistent experience for new joiners.
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• Lead the strategic talent agenda, ensuring consistent, fair people practices and strong engagement with HR initiatives.
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• Manage and lead the annual salary review process in partnership with senior stakeholders, ensuring fair and commercially sound outcomes.
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• Drive improvements in employee relations capability, coaching managers to handle performance, probation, and conduct matters effectively and consistently.
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• Support and oversee family leave processes, ensuring compliance and positive employee experience.
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• Handle and support complex employee relations cases, ensuring fair, timely, and well-documented outcomes.
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• Improve exit processes and use leaver insights to identify themes and recommend actions to improve retention.
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• Ensure HR policies are understood and applied consistently, contributing to updates where needed.
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• Work closely with HR colleagues across shared services, payroll, resourcing, L&D, and occupational health to deliver integrated HR support.
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• Identify and drive improvements in HR processes and and self-service capability.
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About You:

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• HR Generalist/HRBP experience in professional or corporate services environments.
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• Experience improving HR service delivery and building manager capability through tools and training.
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• Strong knowledge of UK employment law and employee relations case management.
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• Proven ability to coach managers on performance, capability, and probation issues.
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• Experience supporting wellbeing, attendance, and workplace adjustments across the employee lifecycle.
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• Able to analyse people data and turn insights into practical actions.
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• Strong communicator with the ability to influence and handle sensitive issues.
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• Comfortable working in ambiguity and balancing competing priorities.
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• Coaching-led, commercially aware, and solutions-focused approach.
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• High integrity and commitment to confidentiality.
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If you're passionate about shaping a high-performing, people-focused environment and driving meaningful change in how HR supports managers and employees, please apply with an up to date copy of your CV or contact Amy Mottershead on