Wilmslow and Alderley Edge
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People & Culture Manager

Where

Alderley Edge

Type

Permanent

Salary

50000 Annual

Are you ready to shape the culture, talent strategy, and employee experience of a fast-growing, purpose-led technical services group?

A forward-thinking, digitally enabled engineering services group is seeking an ambitious and experienced People & Culture Manager to join their senior leadership team. Operating across multiple UK sites, this group is committed to establishing a best-in-class, high-performance working environment that supports both personal and professional development at all levels.

With ambitious growth targets (doubling in headcount by the end of 2026), this is a critical leadership role - ideal for a values-driven HR leader with a passion for building culture, driving transformation, and delivering scalable people strategies across a national, multi-site technical workforce.

Key Responsibilities as People & Culture Manager will be to: -

  • Performance & Engagement - support performance appraisals, employee feedback, engagement initiatives, and proactive employee relations.
  • Recruitment & Workforce Development - manage recruitment pipelines, digital tools, onboarding, and create a group-wide workforce development plan.
  • Learning & Development - establish and implement L&D priorities, leadership development activities, and future-focused training workflows.
  • Policy & Process Excellence - standardise HR policies across subsidiaries, define digital workflows and oversee HR documentation.
  • Strategic HR Support - advise the board on compensation, benefits, and organisational strategy; collaborate with functional leads in SHEQ, Finance, Marketing, and IT to drive group-wide initiatives.
  • Culture & Employer Branding - align the organisation around group values and brand pillars, create initiatives to sustain high performance, and support outreach activities.
  • Operational Excellence - monitor functional metrics, analyse performance data, and define actionable insights for board reporting.

The successful candidate will: -

  • Proven HR leadership experience, ideally in engineering services or a related sector such as construction, facilities management, or industrial maintenance.
  • Strong background in organisational development, workforce planning, and people strategy.
  • Experience in multi-site, national organisations with trade/technical workforces.
  • Proactive, highly organised, and comfortable leading parallel HR projects across diverse teams.
  • A confident communicator who can influence senior stakeholders and inspire teams.
  • Enthusiastic about building a modern, supportive, and scalable HR function.
  • Comfortable with occasional UK-wide travel.

What's on Offer

  • Salary to 50,000
  • Pension
  • 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays
  • Death in service
  • 2 paid volunteer days annually
  • Online GP access
  • Work from home on Friday
  • Self-care support
  • Career progression pathway.
  • A purpose-driven working environment with a focus on culture, growth, and impact.
  • The opportunity to be part of a leadership team building a truly progressive and future-ready organisation.

Interested? To apply, please follow the 'apply now' link to send your CV to Emma Brighouse at Morgan Ryder Associates.

At Morgan Ryder we can provide you with a full range of employment opportunities from short term and fixed term temporary vacancies to permanent positions.

We recruit for companies that operate in the following industries: Defence Equipment, Food and Drink Manufacturers, FMCG, Packaging, Engineering, Automotive, Aerospace, Warehousing, Logistics, Waste Management, Petro Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Power & Renewable Energy.

Our commitment:

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at Morgan Ryder Associates are critical to our success as DE&I positive company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.

Please note that calls to and from the offices of Morgan Ryder Associates Ltd. may be monitored or recorded. This is to ensure compliance with regulatory procedures, record business transactions and for training purposes.

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