HR Business Partner

Manchester (Hybrid) | 12-Month Fixed Term Contract

Ready to shape the future of a growing business?

We’re looking for a dynamic HR Business Partner to become part of the core management team for our Insolvency division. This isn’t just another HR role — this is your opportunity to work with a supportive, collaborative wider HR team and truly partner with the business leaders and managers to help continue to help a successful business to thrive and grow.

If you want the opportunity to help build outcome driven people strategy and also like to be hands on you will thrive as part of our wider HR team. If you want to see the real impact of your work and have fun with a supportive team — keep reading.

The Opportunity

Over the next 12 months, we want to focus on evolving and embedding a high performance culture, strong values and effective reward and recognition programmes underpinned by excellent engagement and leadership.

As our HR Business Partner, you’ll be at the heart of it.

You’ll support leaders and employees with confidence and care, ensuring everything we do is compliant, commercially aligned, and people-centred. From shaping people plans, to data insight and leading engagement initiatives — you’ll make it happen.

Core HR Advisory & Delivery

• Provide high-quality HR support across the full employee lifecycle.

• Act as the trusted first point of contact for people-related matters within the division.

• Offer pragmatic, commercially focused advice on policy, process and employee relations.

• Use people data and MI to identify trends, risks and opportunities — especially during change.

Collaboration

• Work with business leaders and the wider HR team to shape and drive a high performing, collaborative culture.

• Ensure full compliance with employment law.

• Maintain accurate data and reporting.

• Build strong stakeholder relationships across the People Team and leadership.

• Support wider People initiatives and programmes across the business such as embedding a new HR system, driving our performance management and recognition programmes, supporting our diversity and wellbeing programmes and talent development initiatives.

Engagement & Communication

• Partner with the Group People Director and CPO to deliver engaging, clear and aligned communications.

• Work closely with leaders and Marketing to ensure messaging lands effectively.

What we’re looking for:

You’re not just operational — you’re adaptable, commercially aware, and confident navigating change.

• Ideally CIPD qualified or have significant HR experience.

• Proven HR generalist experience, including employee relations.

• Strong knowledge of employment law.

• Experience supporting organisational change, restructuring or transformation.

• Comfortable balancing coordination and strategic activity.

• Confident handling sensitive conversations with empathy and authority.

• Collaborative, curious and solutions-focused.

Experience in a professional services or fee-earning environment is highly desirable.

You’ll be joining a supportive, collaborative People Team that believes in trust, empowerment and partnership. We work together, challenge constructively, and genuinely care about delivering great outcomes — for our people and the business.

This role is central to our success over the next year. Your work will have visible impact, real influence, and lasting legacy.

If you’re excited by motivated by meaningful change, and ready to make your mark — we’d love to hear from you.