HR Manager - (9 month FTC) - Leeds (Hybrid Working)

We are searching for an experienced and ambitious HR Manager to join our ever-evolving HR team. This will be on a 9 month Fixed term contract.
Reporting to the HR Business Partner, this role offers a vast variety of tasks and responsibilities, often changing day to day and is undoubtedly demanding. You will need to be experienced in all the accountabilities set out below, but above all we need you to be resilient, proactive and passionate. Email and phone traffic can often be intense so you will have the necessary communication skills to liaise with managers, of all levels, confidently and directly.
The HR Manager is a true generalist role that will provide day to day operational guidance and advisory support to enable effective people management & people practices across all levels of the business, adding value to the business that you support.

The nature of the work varies but you'll typically be:
• Responsible for providing stakeholders with guidance, coaching and advisory support on complex employee relations casework including dispute resolutions, disciplinaries, grievances, absence, TUPE Transfers and redundancy. As well as, on occasion, managing these processes directly.
• Assisting line managers to understand and implement policies and procedures.
• Providing accurate, meaningful and insightful management information to stakeholders, identifying the opportunity to add value by recognising trends and patterns.
• Responsible for providing guidance and HR advice based on risk and commercial awareness.
• Promoting equity and diversity as part of the culture of the business.
• Managing the review of HR policies & Contracts of Employment to ensure they are fit for purpose and meet legal and regulatory requirements, including producing toolkits and guidance documents for our line management population.
• Liaising with the HR Service Centre, acting as an escalation point.
• Providing HR development through mentoring to the wider HR Service Centre team wherever possible, upskilling the team as necessary.
• Supporting the HR Business Partners and the functional leadership teams to design and deliver the annual people agenda.
• Supporting on initiatives relating to the whole people lifecycle and wider people initiatives.
• Providing line management training, in areas such as performance management, absence management and wellbeing.
• Managing settlement agreements with people managers and solicitors, including facilitating protected conversations and without prejudice discussions.
• Providing internal and external benchmarking.
• Working in partnership with HR Business Partner and other members of HR Team to support cyclical activities including performance review activity, salary review, change management, retention strategies, talent management practices etc.
• Managing ad-hoc HR project work as and when required.
• Undertaking any other reasonable activity in line with the requirements of the role.

The experience you'll bring to the team
• Proven experience within an HR generalist role, with strong employee relations experience.
• CIPD qualified with evidence of ongoing professional development on a continuous basis an advantage but not a necessity
• Ideally, but not required, you will have experience working for a multi-disciplinary consultancy.
• Knowledge of relevant HR policies and procedures
• Knowledge of current UK employment Law and how to apply legislation
• Computer literate with knowledge of relevant software packages including intermediate skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Must be a confident individual with proven communication skills, both verbally and in written format.