HR Manager

A strategic & commercially minded HR / People & Culture leader with end-to-end ownership of HR.

Achievements

1. Significantly increased employee score through targeted engagement, leadership coaching, and culture-building initiatives.
2. Delivered a 4x uplift in retention in a single year, supported by data-driven interventions and improved onboarding.
3. Improved engagement survey participation by 50%, driving richer insights and stronger leadership accountability.
4. Implemented an ATS & various HR & learning platforms, enhancing hiring ability, streamlining people processes, enabling scalable growth, and improving compliance.
5. Guided multiple businesses through rapid growth, partnering with CEOs & HR Directors to shape and execute people strategy and operational HR.

Responsibilities

1. Partnering with CEO to shape & execute people strategy and workforce planning.
2. Managing end-to-end employee relations cases.
3. Owning full employee lifecycle – recruitment, onboarding, engagement, performance, development & exits.
4. Delivered structured onboarding programmes to improve early-stage retention and role clarity.
5. Leading recruitment strategy to improve candidate quality and reducing time-to-hire.
6. Managed performance processes including appraisals and improvement plans.
7. Identifying & implementing training and development initiatives.
8. Ensuring full compliance with UK employment law.
9. Operational ownership of company premises, including management of external suppliers.
10. Organisation of staffing events.