HR Manager in Yarnton

The Human Resources Manager is responsible for leading the delivery of a high-quality, professional HR service across the UK organisation. This role focuses on operational excellence, ensuring that people practices support business objectives, foster engagement, and remain fully compliant with UK employment legislation. Acting as a trusted advisor to managers and employees, the HR Manager will play a key role in shaping a positive, inclusive, and high-performing workplace culture. This is a varied role, ideal for someone with experience gained in a generalist HR role in a fast‑paced environment. You will be joining a friendly and supportive team, leading the delivery of a fantastic experience for our employees and candidates. Your ideas and dedication will help make our employees feel proud, motivated and engaged and your work will make a lasting impact on sustaining and growing our high performing team as we seek out the best talent to help us drive the energy transition.

What will you be doing?

• Acting as a trusted advisor to UK managers, providing expert advice on a wide range of HR matters
• Leading on employee relations matters, ensuring fair, consistent, and legally compliant outcomes
• Supporting managers with performance management, capability, and employee development
• Helping embed a positive and inclusive culture across UK sites
• Responsible for the end‑to‑end employee lifecycle including recruitment and onboarding process and day‑to‑day topics including but not limited to absence
• Managing UK salary review processes and support salary benchmarking
• Overseeing UK employee benefits, ensuring competitiveness and compliance
• Managing the monthly UK payroll process, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
• Keeping knowledge of employment law up to date and advising management on the practical implementation of it
• Ensuring all UK HR policies and procedures are up to date and compliant
• Overseeing HR systems for the UK workforce, ensuring data accuracy and GDPR compliance, providing metrics, data and reports as required
• Coordinating the Performance & Development review process for the UK
• Leading HR audits and reporting activities within the UK business
• Supporting UK organisational change initiatives, ensuring a smooth and compliant approach
• Leading employee engagement initiatives in the UK, including surveys and action planning
• Analysing engagement data and working with managers to drive improvements
• Championing wellbeing and inclusion initiatives across UK sites
• Identifying and delivering opportunities to improve HR processes, policies, and systems
• Supporting company‑wide initiatives, ensuring they are effectively embedded in the UK
• Working closely with the German HR function to ensure alignment where appropriate
• Leading and managing the UK HR team

What will you need to succeed in the role?

• Strong generalist HR experience, ideally at HR Manager level, in a fast‑paced environment
• CIPD Level 5 or above (or equivalent experience)
• Excellent knowledge of UK employment law
• Proven ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels
• Pragmatic and flexible and able to identify appropriate solutions
• Proactive, organised, efficient and able to cope with varied workload
• Experience managing complex employee relations cases
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Detail conscious and thorough
• High level of integrity, discretion, and professionalism
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands‑on delivery
• Collaborative and adaptable with a strong team ethic, company minded and professional
• Exhibits sound judgment, is insightful, positive and objective
• Fluent in German, both written and verbal
• Experience gained in a scientific/engineering environment would be an advantage

What will we offer you in return?

• Salary commensurate with experience
• Benefit package according to location
• A fast‑paced work environment in a growing international company
• A chance to make a difference by joining our employee committees built around our values
• The opportunity to experience and support many parts of the business

Sounds good? Join our team – we look forward to receiving your application! Oxford PV is an equal opportunity employer and expressly welcomes applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of gender, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.