HR Manager

We’re recruiting an experienced HR Manager to support a nationally operating business within a complex, highly unionised operational environment.

This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially-minded HR professional who enjoys partnering with operational leaders, navigating complex employee relations issues, and influencing business performance through effective people strategies.

Supporting a diverse workforce across multiple sites, you will play a key role in delivering both strategic and operational HR support to senior stakeholders while leading on industrial relations activity within an established collective bargaining environment.

 
The Opportunity

Reporting into a senior HR leadership team, you’ll provide HR leadership across operational and engineering functions with a national footprint.

 
Key responsibilities include:

• Acting as a trusted HR partner to senior operational leaders.
• Leading complex employee relations and industrial relations matters.
• Managing relationships with recognised trade unions.
• Supporting collective bargaining, consultation and change programmes.
• Delivering organisational design and workforce planning initiatives.
• Coaching line managers on people-related matters and employment legislation.
• Leading and developing a team of two HR Advisors.
• Supporting wider HR projects and business improvement initiatives.

This is a visible role with significant exposure across the business and will require regular travel to operational sites throughout the UK.

We’re interested in speaking with experienced HR professionals who have developed their careers within operational, engineering, logistics, manufacturing, utilities, transport or similarly unionised environments.

 
You’ll likely bring:

• Experience operating at HR Manager or Senior HR Business Partner level.
• Strong industrial relations and trade union engagement experience.
• Exposure to collective consultation and organisational change.
• Experience supporting operationally focused workforces.
• The credibility to influence and challenge senior stakeholders.
• A practical, commercially focused approach to problem solving.
• Previous experience managing or mentoring HR team members.

• Salary of £70,000-£80,000
• 10% annual bonus
• Car allowance
• Hybrid working model (typically three days per week on site or in the office)
• National remit with regular travel across the UK
• Leadership responsibility within an established HR function
• Opportunity to support a challenging and highly visible industrial relations agenda
• Genuine potential to secure a long-term position following the initial fixed-term contract

This role would suit an HR professional who thrives in a fast-paced operational environment and is looking for a position where industrial relations, stakeholder engagement and organisational impact sit at the heart of the remit.