
About us We are one of the top three automotive retailers in the UK, proudly representing 32 manufacturer brands, selling a huge range of new and used vehicles from over 150 dealerships across the UK and Ireland.
We believe our people are our greatest asset, and we’re committed to recognising the valuable contribution each person makes. That’s why we continue to invest in a leading rewards and benefits package designed to support your career, wellbeing, and life outside of work.
HR Manager (12-Month Fixed Term Contract - Maternity Cover)
Location: Flexible / Hybrid Working Available
Contract: 12-Month Fixed Term Contract
Salary: Up to £45,000.00 pa + Excellent Benefits
We are now looking for an experienced HR Manager to join our People Team on a 12-month fixed-term contract to provide maternity cover. This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive HR professional to make a real impact across a diverse and fast-paced business.
The Role
As HR Manager, you will act as a trusted partner to leaders across the business, providing expert HR advice, guidance and support on a wide range of people matters. You'll play a key role in driving employee engagement, supporting organisational change, managing complex employee relations cases and ensuring HR best practice is consistently applied.
Working closely with operational leaders and the wider People Team, you'll help deliver people initiatives that support business performance while enhancing the colleague experience.
Key Responsibilities
About You
We're looking for a confident and credible HR professional who can build strong relationships at all levels and thrive in a dynamic environment.
Essential Skills & Experience
Desirable
Core Benefits:
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We strongly believe in nurturing and providing our people with specific manufacturer brand and management training to enhance career development opportunities. We have a great bunch of people, and we like to celebrate and encourage success at all levels.
Lookers and Charles Hurst are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to a working environment that is free from discrimination, is inclusive, and empowers our people to bring their whole self to work and reach their full potential.
If your application is successful, we will conduct relevant employment checks prior to you commencing employment with us. These will include verifying your recent employment, address, credit history and a standard criminal record check. For roles that require you to drive, a driving licence check will also be carried out. Please note, all offers of employment are made subject to a 6 month probation period commencing from your start date.
We take our data protection responsibilities very seriously and are committed to upholding and respecting your privacy rights. Information about how we will process your data including the types of data we collect, the purposes for which we use it, who we may share it with and how long we keep it are set out in our privacy notice. It also includes information about your individual privacy rights. Please make sure you read our Privacy Notice so that you understand how we may collect and use your data.

The Lookers Group are proud to represent more than 30 leading car manufacturers in over 150 dealerships, employing 6500 people. We offer our customers a wide variety of new, nearly new, and used cars, vans, supplying over 200,000 vehicles annually throughout the UK and Ireland.
We believe that by investing in and developing our people, they will be empowered to deliver the best possible experience to our customers, truly putting our customers at the heart of everything that we do.
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