HR Administration Team Leader

Vacancy - HR Administration Team Leader

Are you ready to take the lead in shaping how our HR Transactional Team deliver services across our dynamic business? Do you thrive on motivating teams, guiding colleagues, and ensuring that managers and employees receive the very best support? If you’re passionate about people, confident in managing HR processes, and excited by the chance to make a real impact, this HR Team Leader role could be the perfect next step for you.

Your role

As our HR Team Leader, you will be at the heart of our transactional HR shared service team, shaping how the team delivers the best first‑line HR support. You’ll ensure high standards are consistently met and that every engagement with the team is a positive one. You’ll take pride in knowing that your work directly supports the wider business and its people strategy.

You’ll bring passion for service and process improvement, leading and developing your team to deliver accurate HR support, collating, analysing and using data and insights to inform decision making.

Thriving in a fast‑paced environment, you’ll meet deadlines, ensure accuracy, and act as the go‑to expert for transactional HR. With a keen eye for detail, strong data analytics, and commitment to best practice, you’ll raise HR standards across the organisation.

What you'll bring

You’ll have

• Practical experience in a busy HR shared service environment
• Proven team leader experience in HR, guiding, mentoring, and coaching others
• Skilled at building strong relationships across diverse groups
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency in using HR systems to deliver data and insights
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, engaging confidently at all levels
• Ability to prioritise workload, meet deadlines, and adapt in fast-paced settings
• A keen eye for detail with solid MS Office knowledge (especially Excel)
• Comfortable working with standard operating procedures

Who are we

Already one of the UK’s leading port and logistics companies, we are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UK’s leading port operator.  We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers.  Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040.  Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.

What we can offer you

In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers.  Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:

• 27 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
• Matched Contribution Pension Scheme up to 10%
• Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, critical illness insurance, gym membership and retail vouchers
• Commitment to learning and personal development 
• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our Employee Assistance Programme when required

If you believe you have the skills and experience we are seeking and you want to join a thriving and ambitious place to work, we’d really like to hear from you!