Ryder Reid Legal
Senior Human Resources Manager
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Job Title: Senior HR Manager
Location: London.
Working Arrangement: 4 days a week in the London office.
Further info: Highly competitive salary and benefits.
My global and esteemed international law firm client is seeking an experienced HR leader to drive the delivery of exceptional HR support across a large and diverse workforce. The Senior HR Manager will bring extensive expertise in UK employment law and regulatory compliance, a strong record of successfully navigating complex employee relations cases, and the ability to influence and partner effectively with leaders across a dynamic and multifaceted organisation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on people strategy, organisational effectiveness and workforce planning.
- Lead complex employee relations matters, including disciplinaries, grievances, performance, absence management, restructures, redundancies and settlements.
- Ensure compliance with employment law, regulatory requirements, firm policies and HR best practice, mitigating people-related risk.
- Lead the HR Operations function, delivering efficient, compliant and high-quality HR services across the employee lifecycle.
- Partner with reviewers, global HR teams and business leaders to support performance reviews, progression decisions and associate departures.
- Provide strategic and operational HR support across fee-earner and business services populations.
- Lead organisational change initiatives, including restructures, TUPE transfers, integrations and transformation programmes.
- Coach and develop managers to strengthen people management capability and drive consistent application of firm policies and values.
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About You:
This role requires a confident Senior HR professional who can balance strategic thinking with operational excellence while driving positive employee outcomes and organisational performance.
- Significant HR experience gained within a Senior HR Manager, HR Business Partner, or equivalent role.
- Strong working knowledge of UK employment law and current regulator requirements, with the ability to apply this pragmatically in a legal environment.
- Demonstrable experience managing high volumes of complex employee relations cases across a large workforce.
- CIPD Level 7 qualification (or equivalent) preferred.
- Degree level education or equivalent professional experience.
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Application Process:
For further information and to apply, please submit your resume. Due to the high volume of applications, we are unable to respond to all inquiries. If you have not received a response within 72 hours, please assume you have not been shortlisted.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Ryder Reid Legal is a recruitment specialist. For almost thirty years, we've been connecting legal talent with many of the leading law firms in London and internationally. Follow our LinkedIn page for our latest vacancies. https://uk.linkedin.com/company/ryder-reid-legal
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