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

Partner with leaders and managers to provide practical HR advice that supports business goals and reinforces organisational values.

Support workforce planning and resourcing, ensuring effective recruitment practices, coaching managers on interviewing, and promoting quality feedback processes.

Oversee onboarding to ensure a positive and consistent experience for new joiners.

Lead the strategic talent agenda, ensuring consistent, fair people practices and strong engagement with HR initiatives.

Manage and lead the annual salary review process in partnership with senior stakeholders, ensuring fair and commercially sound outcomes.

Drive improvements in employee relations capability, coaching managers to handle performance, probation, and conduct matters effectively and consistently.

Support and oversee family leave processes, ensuring compliance and positive employee experience.

Handle and support complex employee relations cases, ensuring fair, timely, and well-documented outcomes.

Improve exit processes and use leaver insights to identify themes and recommend actions to improve retention.

Ensure HR policies are understood and applied consistently, contributing to updates where needed.

Work closely with HR colleagues across shared services, payroll, resourcing, L&D, and occupational health to deliver integrated HR support.

Identify and drive improvements in HR processes and and self-service capability.

About You

HR Generalist/HRBP experience in professional or corporate services environments.

Experience improving HR service delivery and building manager capability through tools and training.

Strong knowledge of UK employment law and employee relations case management.

Proven ability to coach managers on performance, capability, and probation issues.

Experience supporting wellbeing, attendance, and workplace adjustments across the employee lifecycle.

Able to analyse people data and turn insights into practical actions.

Strong communicator with the ability to influence and handle sensitive issues.

Comfortable working in ambiguity and balancing competing priorities.

Coaching-led, commercially aware, and solutions-focused approach.

High integrity and commitment to confidentiality.

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