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HR Manager | Poole | £42,000
As HR Manager, you'll take full ownership of the HR function across the business, not just administer it. This is a standalone role, so you'll shape and run HR exactly as you see fit, backed by senior leadership.
As HR Manager, You Will Benefit From
- Private health and dental care
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Genuine autonomy to shape HR policy and process across the business
As HR Manager, Your Responsibilities Will Include
- Leading disciplinary and grievance processes, ensuring formal meetings are documented accurately, while providing day to day HR guidance to Managers across the business
- Creating, maintaining and updating HR policies, the employee handbook, data protection documentation and employee records
- Managing end to end recruitment, from drafting job specs and liaising with agencies through to interviews and offer stage
- Overseeing new starter, leaver and probation processes, including contracts, inductions and review scheduling
- Administering absence, holiday and payroll documentation, including back-to-work interviews and training certification tracking
- Coordinating annual Workstation Risk Assessments alongside wider HR compliance activity
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As HR Manager, Your Experience Will Include
- Proven experience as an HR Manager or senior HR Advisor, ideally within a manufacturing environment
- Strong working knowledge of UK employment law and current HR best practice
- CIPD Level 3 (or above), or equivalent experience
- Confidence managing full-cycle recruitment and onboarding independently, without close oversight
- A track record of handling disciplinary, grievance and performance cases without hand-holding
- Experience using PeopleHR or a similar HR information system would be an advantage


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