HR Compliance Manager in Manchester

Confidential role brief

HR Compliance Manager

Recruiter brief · Mission Mars Group

Location: Manchester city centre office, 5 days a week

Contract: Full-time, permanent

Salary: £45,000–£55,000

Reports to: Chief People Officer

Scope: Group-wide (~1,800 employees, ~50 sites)

Main priorities of the role

• Keep the group fully compliant with UK employment law, and lead readiness for the Employment Rights Act changes.
• Write, update and roll out HR policies, including manager briefings and guidance for sites.
• Own compliance on harassment (including the preventative duty), grievances, ACAS early conciliation, subject access requests and trade union matters.
• Support the Head of People (Bars) and HR Manager (Rudy's) with ER case advice.
• Produce the monthly people reports and the people reporting for board papers.
• Build and run people compliance reporting and dashboards for the CPO and Exec.
• Use AI and automation to make compliance processes and reporting efficient and scalable.
• Own the people side of H&S compliance (allergen incidents, risk assessments, safety-critical training), working alongside the outsourced H&S provider.
• Run Right to Work, contract and core compliance assurance across all sites.
• Lead administration of the company's annual pay review.
• Oversee administration of holiday allowances across the group.
• Work with Finance to keep the pension scheme fully compliant, including auto-enrolment.
• Own the visa renewals process.
• Maintain Sponsorship licence compliance.

Person requirements (musts)

• CIPD Level 5 or above.
• Expert, current knowledge of UK employment law, actively kept up to date.
• Proven track record of writing HR policies and rolling them out to managers and teams.
• Experience advising on ER casework, including grievances, disciplinaries and harassment complaints.
• Strong data skills: builds reports and dashboards, and turns data into clear insight.
• Experience producing monthly people reports and board-level reporting.
• Proficient in AI, with practical examples of using it to build reporting and improve processes.
• Strong experience of HR systems.
• Working knowledge of pay review processes, holiday entitlement rules (including irregular hours) and pension auto-enrolment duties.
• Willing to get involved in H&S compliance.
• Multi-site experience; confident influencing GMs and Ops teams.
• Willing to work from the Manchester city centre office 5 days a week.

Desirable

• Hospitality, retail or leisure background.
• Experience of immigration compliance and visa processes, including sponsor licence duties.
• Experience with BI tools