People Manager in Paisley

Iconic Resourcing is proud to be partnering with the University of the West of Scotland to appoint an experienced People Manager to join their established HR function. This position offers an opportunity to play a pivotal role in strengthening and evolving the HR Business Partner model at a time of organisational transformation. Reporting to the Head of People Services, you’ll lead a sizeable and experienced team, providing clear direction, support and credibility, while ensuring high-quality, pragmatic people advice is delivered across the organisation.

As People Manager, you’ll take ownership of the operational leadership of the HRBP and Recruitment teams, while working closely with senior stakeholders to support the delivery of people priorities. You’ll be trusted to navigate complexity, balance competing demands, and provide calm, confident leadership at all times.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading, developing and supporting a team of HR Business Partners and Recruitment Advisors, ensuring consistency, capability and confidence across the function
• Acting as a senior escalation point for complex employee relations matters, including cases involving senior stakeholders
• Supporting organisational change programmes, ensuring people impacts are well managed and clearly communicated
• Working collaboratively with colleagues across People, including People Experience and Payroll, to embed working practices, values and behaviours
• Building strong, credible relationships with stakeholders across the university, offering constructive challenge where appropriate
• Driving continuous improvement across all HR practices, procedures and ways of working

Successful Candidate:

This role will suit an experienced people leader who is comfortable operating in a unionised, complex stakeholder environment and who brings a practical, solutions-focused mindset.

Experience:

• Proven experience leading and managing HR professionals, within an HRBP model
• Strong employee relations capability, with confidence handling complex and sensitive casework
• Experience working in environments with active trade union engagement and robust stakeholder challenge
• A resilient, optimistic and realistic approach and able to support others through pressure and change
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trust and credibility quickly
• Sector background is flexible- while public sector experience is welcomed, it is not essential.

You’ll join a committed People leadership team at a point where your input will genuinely shape how the function operates going forward. Alongside competitive pay, the university offers a strong benefits package including enhanced annual leave, flexible working, wellbeing resources and access to on-site facilities.

If you’re motivated by leading people through change, strengthening capability, and making a tangible impact in a values-led organisation, this could be a highly rewarding next step.

If you think you have the experience that we are looking for we would love to hear from you. Please contact UWS’s retained recruitment partner Becky Taylor at Iconic Resourcing for more information. All conversations will be kept confidential.

At Iconic Resourcing we are engaged by many leading organisations across Scotland and our aim is to keep the recruitment process simple. The people we work with are often in demand professionals, so we work in a completely agile way which means discussions don’t need to be during working hours, we can arrange video calls at times convenient to you. Please visit our website to view all our Iconic Jobs across Scotland.

Iconic Resourcing is an equal opportunities employer, and all applications will be treated as such. We act as both an employment business and an employment agency.