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Your New Job Title: Mandarin speaking Senior HR Manager/HR Manager
The Skills You’ll Need:Relevant UK HR experience, ability and willingness to be fully office based.
Your New Salary:Competitive + bonus and good benefits including travel and phone allowance.
Fully Office Based
Perm
Start:ASAP
Working hours:9:00 – 18:00 Monday – Friday
To be successful in this role our client has said it is essential that candidates:
- are willing and able to be fully office based
- have relevant UK HR experience
If that means this job isn’t a match for you please view our other vacancies for one that may be a better fit.
What You’ll be Doing:
Our client is seeking an experienced and proactive Senior HR Manager or HR Manager to act as a strategic business partner across the organisation.
This role will cover the full spectrum of HR functions, including talent acquisition, employee relations, performance management, compliance, and learning & development, while also covering some office management responsibilities to ensure smooth day-to-day operations.
The successful candidate will combine strong operational HR expertise with a hands-on approach and the ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment and within a small HR team.
This role is fully office based.
- Act as a strategic business partner to deliver full-cycle recruitment, including drafting job descriptions, managing job postings, coordinating interviews, advising hiring managers, negotiating offers, and overseeing onboarding processes.
- Design, coordinate, and implement comprehensive learning and development programmes to ensure regulatory compliance while supporting employee skill development, career progression, and organisational capability building.
- Oversee employee benefits and welfare programmes to enhance employee engagement, wellbeing, and overall employee experience.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of UK employment legislation, including the Employment Rights Act 2025, ensuring all HR policies, procedures, and practices remain compliant and effectively implemented.
- Partner with business leaders to set annual and seasonal performance targets, lead performance review cycles, and support continuous performance management initiatives.
- Manage employee relations matters, including investigating complaints and grievances, and leading disciplinary processes in a fair, consistent, and objective manner.
- Maintain accurate and confidential HR records in compliance with UK legal requirements and internal policies.
- Lead or support office management and administrative functions to ensure smooth day-to-day operations.
- Undertake additional HR and administrative responsibilities as required to support business needs.
The Skills You’ll Need to Succeed:
- Proven UK work experience as an HR Manager or HR Business Partner.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience in managing Employee Relations (ER) cases is essential, including grievances, disciplinary matters, investigations, performance issues, and absence management.
- Strong working knowledge and practical experience across all core HR functions, processes, and best practices.
- Solid understanding of UK employment legislation and confidence in applying it to real-case scenarios.
- Degree (or above) in Human Resources Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
- CIPD qualification is desirable but not essential.
- Willingness to undertake office administration responsibilities as part of the role.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Proficiency in Chinese is desirable but not essential.
- Strong work ethic and professional attitude, with a proactive approach, sense of ownership, and ability to work independently.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment.
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