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Your New Job Title: Mandarin speaking Senior HR Manager/HR Manager

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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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