HR Manager

A strategic and commercially focused HR professional with proven experience leading the full employee lifecycle and partnering with senior leadership teams to drive business growth.

Skilled in aligning people strategy with commercial objectives, building high-performing cultures, and delivering scalable HR solutions across growing organisations.

Key Achievements

1. Increased employee engagement scores through targeted culture, leadership development, and employee experience initiatives.
2. Delivered a fourfold improvement in employee retention within 12 months through data-led interventions, enhanced onboarding, and engagement strategies.
3. Increased engagement survey participation by 50%, providing deeper workforce insights and strengthening leadership accountability.
4. Successfully implemented ATS and various HR & learning platforms, improving recruitment capability, operational efficiency, compliance, and scalability.
5. Partnered with CEOs and senior leadership teams to support periods of rapid growth, developing and executing people strategies aligned to business objectives.

Key Experience

1. Partnering with executive leadership to shape and deliver people strategy and workforce planning initiatives.
2. Managing complex employee relations matters and providing commercially balanced HR guidance.
3. Leading the full employee lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, engagement, development, performance management, and offboarding.
4. Designing and implementing structured onboarding programmes to improve retention and accelerate employee effectiveness.
5. Developing recruitment strategies to enhance candidate quality and reduce time-to-hire.
6. Managing performance review frameworks, talent development plans, and performance improvement processes.
7. Identifying and delivering learning and development initiatives to support organisational capability.
8. Ensuring compliance with UK employment legislation and HR best practice.
9. Overseeing operational facilities management, supplier relationships, and workplace services.
10. Coordinating company-wide events and employee engagement activities.