The Malcolm Group is one of the UK’s leading providers of logistics, construction, and maintenance services. With roots dating back to the 1920s, the business has grown from a small family-run coal merchant into a major player in UK supply chain and logistics operations. We are now recruiting for a key role in our team!

Are you a people-first leader with a passion for creating exceptional employee experiences? Do you thrive on driving business performance through outstanding people practices? If so, we’d love to meet you.

As our Group People & Recruitment Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping a proactive, efficient, and values-driven People function. Leading a team of HR professionals, you’ll partner with business leaders to drive performance, engagement, and compliance across the Group. You’ll be responsible for embedding best-in-class people policies, modernising systems and processes, and ensuring the right people are in the right roles to help our business succeed.

This is a hands-on, office-based, leadership role with real scope to shape the future of how we work – perfect for someone who wants to make a lasting impact.

Based at our Newhouse Head Office, you will;

• Lead and develop a high-performing People team to deliver a customer-focused HR service
• Provide rock solid support for complex case work
• Ensure legal compliance and mitigate business risk with up-to-date HR knowledge
• Lead the team to partner with managers to drive KPIs and improve employee performance, engagement, and retention
• Design and embed world-class HR policies, systems and digital processes
• Oversee end-to-end recruitment, onboarding, and succession planning strategies
• Support organisational change, restructures, and design programmes
• Drive our company values, diversity, and inclusion across every level
  
  

What you’ll bring:

• Significant proven experience leading high-performing HR teams in a fast-paced environment
• Deep knowledge of UK employment legislation
• Experience handling complex people challenges (ER, recruitment, retention, labour management, TUPE)
• A hands-on, pragmatic approach with strong influencing skills
• A passion for using HR systems and data to drive change
• CIPD qualified (or equivalent)
  
  

Why Join Us?

At the heart of our business are our people. We live and breathe our values every day:

• Care for People – we support and protect our colleagues and communities
• Pride – we strive for excellence in everything we do
• Promises Delivered – we do what we say, with a can-do attitude
• Trust & Integrity – we always act with honesty and fairness
• Mutual Respect – we value everyone for who they are

If this role sounds like you, please apply today, we’d love to hear from you!

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