Head of HR Manchester - Hybrid working 12 month FTC c£80,000 per annumI am delighted to be retained by a Manchester-based business to appoint an experienced Head of HR on a 12-month fixed-term contract, joining at a genuinely exciting point of transition and growth.This is a role for someone who enjoys stepping into complexity and making things better. It combines credible senior HR leadership with a real opportunity to reshape how the function operates - moving it towards a more modern, efficient and insight-led model.You''ll be a key figure within the People leadership group, supporting the HR team on day-to-day delivery while also taking ownership of wider improvements across systems, data, automation and ways of working. The focus is firmly on building something stronger, more scalable and better equipped for the future.Working closely with senior stakeholders across the business, you''ll help evolve the HR function into something more streamlined, commercially aligned and capable of supporting continued growth with confidence.In short, this is a high-impact interim opportunity to stabilise, modernise and elevate a People function at pace - leaving a lasting mark on how it operates.What you''ll be doingProvide senior HR leadership across operational delivery and employee relationsSupport and develop the existing HR team, acting as escalation point for complex mattersStrengthen HR processes, governance and service delivery across the organisationLead improvements in HR sys