HR Manager

As a HR Manager at Foster + Partners, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the employee experience and supporting business success across our global practice. Acting as a trusted partner to senior leaders, you’ll drive people strategy, lead complex HR initiatives and projects and help build a high-performing, inclusive culture. This is an opportunity to influence decision-making, develop organisational capability, and make a meaningful impact across the full employee lifecycle.

This role is ideal if you want to:

• Partner with senior leaders and influence people decisions that support business performance.
• Drive and deliver HR projects and strategic people initiatives, including organisational change, process improvements, and culture-focused programmes.
• Lead on complex employee relations cases, providing expert advice and risk-based solutions.
• Shape and improve HR policies, processes, and ways of working across a global organisation.
• Partner with HR centre of Excellence to drive talent, performance, learning, and workforce planning strategies.
• Use data and insights to inform decision-making and improve the employee experience.

What you will bring to the team:

• CIPD Level 5 qualification or above, with Chartered status also desirable.
• Proven experience operating as an HR Manager or HR Business Partner in a complex, fast-paced, or matrixed environment.
• Demonstrable experience managing complex employee relations cases, including disciplinary, grievance, performance, absence management, and organisational change matters.
• Experience leading or contributing to HR projects and people initiatives, delivering successful outcomes and driving continuous improvement.
• A commercial mindset with the ability to provide pragmatic, solution-focused HR advice, balancing business priorities, employee needs, and risk management.
• Experience within professional services, consultancy, or architectural environments is desirable.
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law, HR best practice, and employee relations.
• The confidence to build trusted relationships, influence stakeholders, and challenge constructively.
• Strong analytical, organisational, and problem-solving skills, with excellent attention to detail.
• Advanced Microsoft Office capability (Excel and Word essential); experience of HR systems and data platforms desirable.

What we offer:

We offer a benefits package designed to help you thrive professionally and personally. This includes: private medical insurance for you and your family; life assurance; personal travel insurance; access to a range of wellbeing support, comprising virtual GP services, mental health support and lifestyle coaching; as well as discount programmes for various retailers. On our London campus, we have subsidised catering facilities and host regular social events, and sports activities, for everyone to enjoy.

To support you in building a meaningful career, the practice offers opportunities to develop both your technical and non-technical skills through continuous learning, professional development support, and knowledge sharing and insights from experienced colleagues.

If our designs spark your curiosity and you would like to contribute to solving complex challenges with local and global impact, we invite you to join our team. You’ll be challenged and inspired, collaborating on extraordinary projects in an environment designed to cultivate excellence.

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