HR Manager

HR Manager – Part-Time

3 Days per Week | Hybrid/Flexible | South Aberdeenshire
£70K – £75K DOE (Full Time Equivalent)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced HR Manager to join a growing organisation at an important stage of its development.

This is not simply a role focused on maintaining existing HR processes. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape, build and embed the organisation’s people infrastructure, establishing robust HR foundations while helping create a scalable, high performing people function.

Working closely with senior leadership and supporting operations across the UK and Mexico, the HR Manager will combine strategic thinking with hands on delivery. They will introduce pragmatic HR frameworks covering recruitment, onboarding, performance, talent development, employee engagement and succession planning, while also coaching and developing the existing HR Administrator.

For an experienced HR professional who enjoys creating structure, improving how organisations manage and develop their people, and seeing the tangible impact of their work, this represents an excellent opportunity.

The Role

The HR Manager will act as a trusted people partner to the leadership team, assessing current HR practices and identifying opportunities to strengthen processes, capability and organisational performance.

Key responsibilities will include:

* Reviewing existing HR practices and establishing effective policies, procedures and employee guidelines.

* Creating consistent processes across recruitment, onboarding, performance management, development and employee relations.

* Ensuring HR practices remain compliant with UK employment legislation and recognised best practice.

* Developing recruitment processes, interview frameworks and hiring standards to improve candidate attraction and selection.

* Designing and implementing a structured employee onboarding programme.

* Building and launching a practical performance management framework, including goal setting, reviews and feedback.

* Establishing talent review, succession planning and career development processes.

* Identifying development needs and creating learning and development plans aligned with business objectives.

* Supporting leadership and management capability development.

* Strengthening employee engagement, retention and organisational culture.

* Introducing engagement measurement and associated improvement initiatives.

* Developing meaningful HR metrics and reporting to provide leadership with greater insight into workforce trends.

* Supporting workforce planning, organisational design and change initiatives.

Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships will remain an important element of the organisation’s approach to developing future talent.

The HR Manager will support the continued commitment to the four year apprenticeship programmes, ensuring robust apprentice selection processes and structured training plans are in place. They will work with apprentice trainers and education providers to ensure training requirements are met and appropriate succession plans exist for apprentice trainers.

Developing the HR Function

A particularly important part of this position will be developing the organisation’s internal HR capability.

The successful candidate will mentor and coach the existing HR Administrator, building their knowledge, confidence and credibility across employee relations, recruitment, performance management, talent development and day to day HR operations.

They will establish clear responsibilities, documented processes and measurable development objectives, transferring knowledge and reducing the organisation’s reliance on external HR support over time.

The longer term objective is to support the HR Administrator's…