Senior Human Resources Manager

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.

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.

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!

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