HR Manager (Fixed term, 14 month contract)
Description
Reporting directly to our Managing Director, this is a varied role where you’ll bemanaging end-to-end employee life cycle processes – like onboarding/offboarding, recruitment and managing performance to, maintaining our HR systems (we use BambooHR, Deel for overseas employees) and aligning our people initiatives to maintain a high-performance work culture. You’ll influence decisions using data, metrics and insights, manage our employee engagement software (we use Engagement Multiplier) to continually improve our employee experience.
You’ll have demonstrable experience in a generalist role and be comfortable within a fast-paced environment and at times, working independently. Given the nature of the role, we’d expect you to be confident with UK employment law and a natural problem solver who is practical, resilient with a self-starter attitude.
Why Us? Proctor + Stevenson are one of the UK’slongest-established independent B2B marketing agencies, we’re a Bristol based full-service agency known for tackling complex challenges, pushing creative boundaries and delivering outstanding results to clients worldwide. You’ll collaborate across our talented team of creatives, strategists, and technical specialists in an environment that values innovation, growth, and exceptional client service. We’re also a business that genuinely cares about our impact on people and our planet – we’re B Corp certified and committed to only working with clients that align with our values. This isn’t just something to sound nice on our website - it’s something we work hard to maintain, from pro-bono work for local charities to supporting young designers starting out in their careers.
What you'll be doing
- Manage the end-to-end employee life cycle processes such as recruitment,onboarding/offboarding, performance management cycle, annual leave, absence management etc.
- Maintain our HR systems and identify improvements that streamline our ways of working. We use BambooHR, Deel (for overseas employees) – it’s a bonus if you’re familiar, but not essential.
- Support our Financial Controller with activities such as payroll administration.
- Champion our high-performance culture through the management of our framework for evaluating performance and providing feedback.
- Be the trusted advisor for effective and commercial employee relation solutions through existing people policies and procedures.
- Administer the onboarding/offboarding and renewal process for our employee benefits.
- Coordinate our employee engagement surveys (we use Engagement Multiplier), recommend and support the implementation of initiatives to improve employee experience and engagement scores.
Manage all company recruitment, including creating vacancies, organising interviews with candidates and providing feedback.
Lead and contribute to projects outside your direct area of responsibility.
Align employee policies, processes, participation, and communication with our CSR policies.
Use HR data and key metrics to provide insights for decision making. - Line Manager to our Front of House Manager.
Requirements
- Demonstratable experience in HR generalist role within a creative or fast paced environment.
- Experienced at process improvement across the employment lifecycle.
- CIPD qualified (Level 5 as a minimum).
- Experience of supporting Line Managers.
- Confident working knowledge of UK employment law and HR practices.
- Solid commercial acumen.
- Demonstratable problem-solving skills - complex issues are broken down and options/approaches evaluated and presented thoughtfully.
What we offer
- We operate flexible working around core hours
- 23 days of holiday + we close between Christmas and NY
- A cool office based in Easton where we host foodie pop ups and team socials
- Private Medical Insurance and medical cash back plan
- Statutory company pensionscheme
- Training and Development opportunities.
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