Top HR Advisor Jobs in Manchester

Serve as the organization-wide HR advisor, managing employee relations, coaching managers, maintaining policies, supporting organizational change, administering HR systems and people data, developing training and appraisal frameworks, and improving engagement and internal communications. The role requires strong UK employment law knowledge, commercial awareness, empathy, and broad generalist HR experience across the employee lifecycle.

Provides senior HR advice across employee relations, HR operations, onboarding, offboarding, absence management, documentation, reporting, policy application, training, and workplace compliance. Oversees complex grievances, disciplinaries, capability, performance, and absence cases, escalating high-risk matters when needed. Supervises and develops an HR Assistant while offering limited office and facilities support. Requires strong UK employment law knowledge, sound judgment, and experience managing sensitive employee relations issues.

Serves as the first point of contact for employees, hiring managers, and HR teams, resolving HR service inquiries through closure. Provides policy, procedure, administrative, and operational guidance; uses Workday and payroll systems; monitors transactional quality and service metrics; supports HR calendar events; and recommends process and technology improvements. Requires fluency in French and English, HR operations or employee services experience, strong customer service, communication, problem-solving, and process improvement skills.

Provides generalist HR advice to managers and employees across Central Functions and AD24. Supports employee relations, HR policies, employee engagement, reporting, performance management, payroll processes, HR records, and the full employee lifecycle. Partners with the HR Business Partner on strategic initiatives and HR transformation while ensuring consistent best practices and a positive employee experience.

Provide international HR advice and guidance to clients, researching employment laws, preparing HR documentation, updating policies, handling employee relations matters, and supporting organizational change, restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, onboarding, and offboarding projects. The role also involves client relationship management, project planning, recordkeeping, and collaboration with senior consultants across international HR engagements.

Interim People & Culture Advisor responsible for managing a high-volume UK employee relations caseload, including investigations, disciplinary, grievance, performance, absence and flexible working matters. The role coaches managers, advises on employment law and risk, owns onboarding, supports payroll and statutory requests, maintains policies and compliance, and improves HR processes. The advisor will also manage employee lifecycle activity, use HR systems and automation, and provide a comprehensive handover at the end of the contract.