HR Manager Resume Example (ATS-Optimized Master Resume)

HR manager covering the full employee lifecycle — hiring, performance, ER and policy — for a 400-person organisation.

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Professional Summary

HR manager supporting 400 employees across 3 sites. Cut regretted attrition from 19% to 11% in two years and reduced average time-to-hire to 26 days while running the full lifecycle from hiring to exit.

Core Skills

Talent: Talent acquisition, structured interviewing, employer branding, onboarding design

Lifecycle: Performance management, succession planning, L&D, engagement surveys

Employee relations: Grievances, disciplinaries, investigations, restructuring consultation

Systems and compliance: Workday, SuccessFactors, Greenhouse, employment law, POSH, payroll inputs

Key Achievements

Reduced regretted attrition from 19% to 11% by redesigning onboarding and the first-90-days check-in.

Brought average time-to-hire down from 44 to 26 days with a structured interview scorecard.

Rolled out a company-wide performance framework adopted by 100% of managers within one cycle.

Experience

HR Manager — Calder Group | 2022–Present

• Business partner to 4 department heads covering 400 employees across engineering, sales and operations.

• Own the annual review and compensation cycle, including banding, calibration and manager training.

• Lead employee relations casework end to end; closed 40+ cases with no escalation to tribunal.

HR Business Partner — Lumen Retail | 2019–2022

• Hired 120+ roles in three years across store operations and head office.

• Ran engagement surveys and action planning that lifted participation from 58% to 86%.

Education

MBA, Human Resource Management — Symbiosis Institute, 2019

Projects

Hybrid working policy: researched, drafted and rolled out across 3 sites with manager enablement sessions.

Additional

SHRM-CP

Certified in workplace investigations

Workday HCM core administration

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