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. 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