People Operations Manager in Manchester

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About The Role

Are you an experienced People Operations Supervisor/Manager who thrives on building efficient, well-governed HR services? Do you enjoy creating strong processes, improving systems, and using data to help organisations make better decisions? Are you looking for a role where you can shape how People services are delivered across a growing international consultancy?

Following a promotion, we're looking for a People Operations Manager to lead our people operations team, supporting the UK & Ireland consulting business (approximately 650 employees). This role will oversee a small team responsible for HR administration and payroll, ensuring the smooth, compliant and efficient delivery of People services across the business. This is a hands-on role where you'll combine operational oversight with continuous improvement. You'll play a key role in strengthening governance, improving People processes, and ensuring our systems and data support better decision-making across the organisation. You'll work closely with the wider People Leadership Team to modernise how we deliver services improving HRIS functionality, enhancing self-service tools, and ensuring that employees and managers have clear, reliable access to the information they need.

To be successful in this role, you'll need:

• Proven experience leading a People Operations / HR Operations function
• A strong understanding of HR systems and HRIS platforms, with the ability to optimise workflows and processes
• To be a good all-rounder, with a broad HR knowledge, including employment law and operational governance.
• Experience of managing payroll end to end, with a solid understanding of payroll complexities, statutory compliance etc.
• A highly process-driven mindset with a focus on governance, compliance and operational excellence
• Experience managing and developing HR administration teams
• Strong Excel and data analysis skills, with the ability to collate and present HR data and insights
• A solid understanding of organisation design and workforce structures
• Excellent communication skills and the confidence to work collaboratively across teams and functions

At APEM, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We're proud of the culture we've built one based on integrity, quality, collaboration and fairness. As part of a growing global group, you'll have the opportunity to shape how People services evolve while helping create an environment where our colleagues can do their best work.

Next steps

We are focused on creating a diverse and inclusive team. If you can't tick every box on our job description, then we are still keen to hear from you and are open to supporting your development. That may be working part time or supporting you to gain experience in a specific area - we are a growing company and are able to adapt roles to reflect individual skills. If you think you have what it takes to join our fast-growing business, then please apply immediately on our website. All we need some basic information and your CV, we will review all applications quickly and will respond to all applications.

About Us

The APEM Group is a global environmental consultancy, we work with a range of clients including large corporations and governments to help them understand and solve a wide variety of environmental projects in the UK and globally. Our successful pioneering work has enabled us to grow and combine forces with other businesses who share our ethos and integrity. At our core, our people are working towards the protection of the environment across the globe.