Description
Key Responsibilities May Include:
1. Partner with business leaders and HRBPs to implement people and organizational solutions that drive business performance and employee engagement.
2. Serve as the first point of contact for employees on HR-related queries, collaborating with the HR Operations team for seamless service delivery.
3. Build and maintain relationships with leaders, providing coaching and influencing on key people-related matters to enhance team performance and development.
4. Support leaders in the development of their teams, focusing on capability enhancement, engagement, and succession planning.
5. Oversee the employee lifecycle, from talent acquisition through to retirement, ensuring adherence to processes and procedures in collaboration with the broader HR team.
6. Provide guidance on organizational design and workforce planning, supporting talent management, succession planning, and workforce modelling efforts.
7. Proactively manage and resolve employee relations issues, conducting investigations and ensuring a fair and compliant resolution process
Commercial HR Manager
Permanent | Full time
Hybrid in Manchester, Trafford Park (2 days in office)
Step into a role where you’ll shape culture, influence strategy, and become the trusted HR partner for leaders and employees across the UKI region. As the organisation’s regional HR anchor, you’ll drive initiatives that align people, structure, and culture with business goals while owning the full employee experience from onboarding to performance cycles.
You’ll lead complex employee relations cases and coach managers to confidently use HR self service tools like Workday. Your work will strengthen engagement, talent, OD, reward, and development programmes, ensuring they land with impact and support long term business performance.
This role thrives on pace and variety. You’ll navigate ambiguity with ease, partner and collaborate closely with senior stakeholders in a highly commercial environment.
You’ll also be responsible to lead and develop one direct report, shaping their growth too.
Key Responsibilities Include:
8. Serve as the primary coordination point for regional and global HRBPs regarding UKI based employees.
9. Ensure regional/global HR initiatives are executed locally in line with UKI legal and operational requirements.
10. Maintain regular alignment with HRBPs to anticipate upcoming initiatives and local implications.
11. Provide structured, proactive input into regional/global processes.
What We’re Looking For
12. Relationship builder - Able to form strong, influential partnerships across a wide range of leadership styles.
13. Global HR experience - Brings at least two years working within a complex, matrixed, multinational organisation.
14. ER specialist - Has a minimum of two years’ robust ER experience, managing cases confidently end to end.
15. Change and OD exposure - Involved in organisational development, restructuring, and wider transformation activity.
16. Commercial mindset - Experience gained in a corporate, commercially driven environment.
17. Thrives in ambiguity - Comfortable operating at pace in evolving, fast moving settings.
The Perks…
18. 🌍 Certified Top 17 Global Employer
19. 💰 Annual bonus (typically 15%)
20. 🚗 Car Allowance
21. 📈 Generous share scheme
22. 🏥 Private healthcare (family cover)
23. 🕑 Flexible / Hybrid working
24. 🌴 25 days holiday + statutory leave, with option to buy/sell 5 days
25. 💼 Up to 10% company pension
26. ❤️ Life Assurance & Employee Assistance Programme
Interested…?
Apply by submitting an up-to-date CV tailored to this opportunity. We look forward to hearing from you!
Remote Type
Hybrid Remote
Skills to succeed in the role
Adaptabilité, Capacité à assumer la responsabilité, Développement organisationnel (DO), Empathie, Établissement de liens, Expérience du personnel, Expérimentation, Formation et perfectionnement en leadership, Gestion des affaires de ressources humaines, Gestion du changement organisationnel, Gestion du rendement, Performance au travail, Planification de la relève, Travail d'équipe, Understand Customers
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