HR Manager - Dublin 2
6 Month Contract - Potential long-term opportunity
Hybrid working - 2 days office based, 3 days remote
Fantastic opportunity for an experienced HR Manager to join a dynamic People & Culture team. Reporting to the Head of HR, the ideal candidate will have prior HR management experience from a public sector background.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and oversee day-to-day People Operations activities across the employee lifecycle (onboarding, employee changes, offboarding, and queries)
- Ensure delivery of a timely, high-quality HR service aligned with organisational policies and standards
- Act as escalation point for complex operational issues
- Oversee and support the delivery of recruitment and resourcing activity
- Address delays in recruitment processes and reduce vacancy gaps
- Partner with hiring managers to prioritise critical roles and improve time-to-hire
- Provide senior oversight on employee relations matters, sick leave and absence management
- Ensure consistent tracking, follow-up, and reporting on employee cases
- Support managers in applying policies fairly and effectively
- Lead a targeted effort to reduce existing backlogs in People Operations
- Identify process inefficiencies and implement practical improvements
- Introduce structure, prioritisation, and tracking mechanisms to sustain performance
- Build strong relationships with managers and key stakeholders
- Provide clear, professional advice on HR policies and processes
- Ensure a responsive and customer-focused service
- Enable capacity within the broader P&C team to progress strategic people initiatives
- Assist in the selection & implementation of new HRIS system.
Essential Skills, Experience & Qualifications
- Significant experience in HR / People Operations at a senior level
- Strong working knowledge of employee lifecycle processes and HR best practice
- Demonstrated experience managing high-volume operational workloads
- Experience handling employee relations cases, including absence management
- Strong HRIS system management experience.
- Proven ability to lead, prioritise and deliver in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Strong organisational, analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Public sector experience desirable
