People Partner

Job reference: PSX-031721
Salary: 47,389 - 58,225 per annum depending on experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Professional Services
Location: Oxford Road
Employment type: Permanent
Division/Team: People Partners
Hours Per Week: Full Time (1 FTE)
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 01/07/2026
Contract Duration: Permanent
School/Directorate: People Directorate

Join us as a People Partner at the University of Manchester

We’re looking for a strategic People Partner to play a pivotal role within our People Directorate, working closely with Faculties and Professional Services to deliver high-quality, consistent people solutions.

Acting as a trusted advisor and coach to senior leaders, you will shape and deliver initiatives across talent, succession, organisational and workforce design, development, performance, and culture, helping to build inclusive, high-performing environments. A key aspect of the role will be supporting the successful delivery of change programmes across a large and complex organisation.

You’ll partner with Schools, Professional Services Directorates or key functions to understand priorities, diagnose organisational needs, and connect them with the expertise of our Centres of Excellence, ensuring impactful solutions are embedded effectively.

If you’re an experienced HR professional who thrives on influence, collaboration and driving meaningful change, we’d love to hear from you.

Our benefits include:

• Generous employer contribution pension
• 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays, along with Christmas closure
• Ride to work and EV car scheme available

For more information, please see University of Manchester Benefits. You can also find information on our Flexible and Hybrid working here.

We are an open place of enquiry and challenge. We embrace and celebrate difference, diversity and debate, and we pride ourselves on being a place of education, learning and community where we are able, within the law, to question and test received wisdom, express new ideas and explore controversial or unpopular topics and opinions. Find out more from our Freedom of Speech Policy.

Enquiries about the role, shortlisting and interviews

Name: Sunit Patel

Email Address: Sunit.patel@manchester.ac.uk 

General enquiries and administrative support

recruitmentservices.people@manchester.ac.uk 

Technical and job portal support

https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home 

This role is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must demonstrate the right to work in the UK.

Applications close at midnight on the closing date.

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