Job Description

Salary:

40,000 per annum plus a home working allowance

Location:

Home-based (with occasional travel to our Manchester office)

Contract:

Permanent, full-time

Please apply via our website with your cv and cover letter

We're looking for a People and Payroll Business Partner to join People & Culture team someone who combines technical excellence with a passion for continuous improvement and enabling colleagues to thrive.

Benefits include:

Home working allowance of 603.96 27 days of annual leave in year 1, increasing to 31 days 3 paid volunteer days per year to support a charity of your choice An additional paid day off for your birthday 5% employer pension contribution, plus death-in service benefit for pension members Enhanced payments for statutory leave A range of cost-saving benefits, including a cycle-to-work scheme, tech buying scheme, lease car scheme, and retailer discounts
About the role

Reporting to the Head of People & Culture, you'll be a trusted partner in delivering accurate, efficient, and compliant people operations. You'll take ownership of key processes that underpin our high-performance culture, ensuring our people and payroll systems support both business goals and colleague experience.

You will:

Acts as a strategic partner to business leaders on all people and payroll matters. Be responsible for the delivery of the end-to-end monthly payroll, pensions, and benefits administration, ensuring 100% accuracy, compliance, and continuous improvement in efficiency. Be the go to expert for payroll and benefits queries, providing clear, timely, and solutions focused support. Provide data driven insight on all people analytics and performance indicators, including employee turnover, absence rates, EDI, employee relations activity. Partner with managers across the business to embed best practice throughout the employee lifecycle from recruitment and onboarding to Employee Relations, HR Systems and wellbeing. Contribute to a high-performing, values led culture, driving process improvements to enhance efficiency, colleague experience and organisational success.
About you

You'll bring a combination of technical expertise, analytical thinking, and a proactive mindset. You'll take ownership of outcomes, strive for excellence, and be energised by delivering impact across the organisation.

You'll also have:

CIPD Level 5 qualification (or working towards it). Proven experience in managing and delivering payroll and HR System processes with accuracy and confidentiality. A solid understanding of employment law and HR best practice. Strong communication and relationship building skills, with the confidence to influence and collaborate across all levels. Experience using data to inform strategy and performance improvement. A creative and continuous improvement mindset, always seeking better, faster, smarter ways of working.
If you're ready to bring your precision, professionalism, and passion for people to a team that's committed to excellence we'd love to hear from you.

Please note that you must have the legal right to work in the UK. We cannot provide visa sponsorship for this role

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Free parking Work from home
Work Location: Remote