HR Manager

We're looking for an experienced HR Manager to join us at Ascott Transport Limited, a family-run business with over 65 years of experience in logistics, warehousing and distribution. We take pride in our friendly, supportive and team-oriented culture and our ongoing growth means we are always looking for talented individuals. Along with a salary of up to £42,500 per annum, you will also receive:

• Up to 30 days holiday (including 8 BHs)
• Varied and comprehensive health & wellbeing package
• Life Assurance x2
• Refer-a-friend bonus (£500)
• Company Sick Pay
• Free parking

We are also passionate about building a sustainable future. We invest in environmentally responsible practices and are dedicated to reducing our carbon footprint across all operations. By joining ATL, you will contribute to meaningful sustainability initiatives and help shape greener logistics solutions for tomorrow. What you'll be doing as HR Manager at ATL:This is a hands-on, business-facing role where you will partner with managers, coach leaders, and ensure fair, consistent, and legally compliant HR practices. You will act as a trusted advisor to managers across your business area, building strong relationships that enable you to understand and anticipate operational needs. Key responsibilities:

• Help our managers attract the best talent and ensure new recruits feel welcomed from day one.
• Curate and craft our reward offer, ensuring we offer competitive reward and benefits for our teams and to attract the best talent.
• Be the go-to person for pragmatic advice on conduct, capability, grievance, and absence matters. Lead investigations with fairness, firmness and pace.
• Embed a high-performance culture by driving goal setting, regular reviews, and improvement plans that help our people thrive.
• Identify training needs, support continuous learning, and enable succession planning so our people can grow as fast as ATL does.
• Proactively manage absence, coordinate Occupational Health referrals, and champion wellbeing initiatives that keep our teams healthy, happy, and engaged.
• Lead and deliver high-impact projects that improve processes, elevate the employee experience, and contribute to ATL's sustainable business outcomes.
• Act as our HR system expert (UKG Ready), ensuring compliance, data accuracy, and insightful reporting that drives smart, real-time decisions.
• Utilise your insights to help influence our company's policies and procedures, ensuring compliance and alignment with our core values.

What we're looking for in a HR Manager:

• You will be a solid practitioner in TUPE, service provision changes, and you will be adept at change management practices that value people. Ideally, you will have or be working towards a minimum of CIPD Level 5 qualification, andexperience working in a logistics environment.
• You work and collaborate across boundaries, effectively and inclusively banishing silo working.
• You are not just detail-oriented you see the bigger picture and understand how HR strategies drive overall business success.
• You have an open and down-to-earth communication style, combined with excellent coaching skills, and you believe in valuing every individual. You are empathetic, able to understand and respond to the needs of others with compassion and professionalism.
• You pride yourself on 'knowing your stuff' and keep abreast of employment and case law, with the ability to translate this into the 'so what' for the business.

The is a full-time role (Monday-Friday, 08:30-17:00), based at our HQ in Foston (with occasional travel to our other sites in Marchington and Carlisle). We treat our team like family. You will be working alongside passionate colleagues who are dedicated to delivering for our customers. To apply for this role as HR Manager, please click apply online and upload your CV. We have appointed Loates HR Recruitment t/a Loates Business Solutions Ltd to manage the recruitment process exclusively on behalf of Ascott Transport Services Ltd. Loates HR Recruitment is a third-party data processor. The lawful basis for processing data is consent.