HR Manager

Location: Birmingham 
Reports to: Managing Director
Team: Management (with direct line management responsibility for an HR Administrator)
Level: Management

We are seeking a proactive and commercially minded HR Manager to join our management team. This is a full generalist HR role within a manufacturing environment, offering the opportunity to shape and deliver best practice HR while acting as a trusted partner to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT).

As HR Manager, you’ll be the key contact for all HR matters — providing strategic advice, managing employee relations, supporting recruitment and development, and ensuring compliance across all people-related activities. You’ll also manage and mentor an HR Administrator, while working closely with Group HR colleagues to deliver consistent, high-quality HR support across the business.

Training & Development

• Deliver HR inductions for new starters and ensure probation reviews are completed.

• Support succession planning and functional team development.

Resourcing & Recruitment

• Benchmark salaries and contribute to workforce planning.

• Issue contracts of employment and manage onboarding.

Employee Relations

• Provide expert advice on ER issues including disciplinary, grievance, and performance management.

• Ensure employment policies are applied fairly and consistently.

Generalist HR Administration

• Ensure GDPR compliance across all HR processes.

• Produce HR metrics and management information reports.

Essential Experience & Skills

• Proven experience as a Senior HR Advisor or HR Manager within manufacturing.

• Strong knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.

• Experience of SEDEX / BRC audits.

• Generalist HR expertise including employee relations, recruitment, and HR systems.

• Payroll process knowledge (SAGE or equivalent).

• GDPR awareness in an HR context.

• Advanced absence management expertise.

• Excellent communication, influencing, and problem-solving skills.

• IT proficiency including Excel, PowerPoint, and HR systems.

Desirable

• CIPD Level 3 (or working towards).

• Experience with SAGE 200 Payroll / ERP.