Strategic HR Partner

Oldham

£35,000 – £50,000 (depending on experience)

Full-time, permanent

Working hours: 8:15am – 4:30pm, Monday to Friday (flexibility available on start and finish times)

Benefits: 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with buy/sell options), life assurance, private healthcare, onsite gym, and a wide range of additional employee benefits

Mpeople Recruitment are delighted to be working with a well-established and highly regarded manufacturing business in the Oldham area, who are looking to appoint a Strategic HR Partner.

This position is ideal for someone with experience in an HR Business Partner or People Partner role, or for a seasoned HR Advisor ready to progress into a more strategic, partnering-focused position.

Working closely with senior leaders, the role focuses on delivering a proactive and commercially aligned HR service, supporting the full employee lifecycle and driving effective people strategies across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business leaders to align people strategies with organisational goals
• Act as a trusted advisor on talent, leadership, performance, and organisational structure
• Analyse HR data to identify trends and support performance and engagement improvements
• Provide practical, compliant solutions to complex people-related challenges
• Build strong relationships to coach, support, and develop leadership capability
• Review and enhance HR policies, processes, and best practice approaches
• Lead talent reviews, succession planning, and development initiatives
• Act as a key HR contact for managers, providing high-quality guidance and support
• Work alongside site-based HR teams to proactively resolve employee matters
• Manage employee relations cases, including investigations and disciplinary processes
• Drive engagement, wellbeing, and diversity, equality & inclusion initiatives
• Lead performance management processes and continuous improvement activities
• Support the development of management capability through a hands-on approach
• Keep up to date with external trends to improve HR practices and tools

Essential Skills & Experience:

• CIPD Level 5 or Level 7 (or currently studying towards)
• Previous experience in an HR partnering role, or at HR Advisor level with progression ambition
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills at all levels
• Experience supporting organisational change
• Ability to build trusted, effective working relationships across the business
• Strategic and commercially aware approach to HR
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Proven experience handling complex employee relations matters with solid employment law knowledge
• Ability to identify risks and opportunities relating to people management
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

Desirable:

• Experience within manufacturing or a similar industrial setting
• Exposure to working with international or European teams
• Experience within a unionised environment

Due to the high volume of applications received, Mpeople Recruitment may not be able to respond to every applicant. If you do not hear from us within 5 working days, please consider your application unsuccessful. We wish you every success in your job search.