Human Resources Manager in Bedford

The Role

As People & Culture Manager, you will:

• Lead the delivery of HR strategy, ensuring it supports sustainable growth and a high-performance culture.
• Deliver a complete generalist service — from recruitment, onboarding and ER, through to performance, wellbeing, engagement, and L&D.
• Own and run all HR processes with efficiency and confidence, maintaining high standards and legal compliance while staying calm, level-headed and solutions focused.
• Use data, HRIS insights and workforce analytics to support decision making and provide People reporting to the Chief of Staff.
• Drive leadership development programmes and ensure managers have the tools, confidence and mindset to lead effectively.
• Build trusted relationships with leaders; challenging, mentoring and coaching where needed to ensure consistent standards of leadership capability.
• Manage annual performance review cycles, talent processes and capability development.
• Lead wellbeing, diversity and inclusion initiatives aligned to our values and culture.
• Design and deliver internal training and people-related presentations that build manager and employee capability and support continuous development.
• Partner with the QHSE Manager on People related H&S requirements.
• Able to move seamlessly between strategic priorities and practical, hands-on work with a calm, adaptable approach.

Skills/Experience

Essential

• CIPD Level 5 (minimum) or equivalent experience operating at HR Manager level.
• Strong generalist background with proven experience supporting managers across the full employee lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor leaders, challenge constructively, and hold people to account.