Job Description
HR Systems & People Insights Manager
Salary: £50,000-£55,000
Location: Hybrid - Midlands
Reports to: Head of HR
Contract: Permanent
About the Role
We're looking for a proactive and analytical HR Systems & People Insights Manager to join our People Team. This role combines systems management with meaningful data insight - helping our business make smarter people decisions.
You'll manage and optimise our HR systems (primarily iTrent) to ensure they're efficient, integrated, and delivering accurate, insightful data. Beyond reporting, you'll partner with People Partners to highlight trends, seasonal changes, and opportunities for improvement across the business.
This is a standalone role, working alongside a collaborative HR function of around 20 professionals, with regular contact across HR, Finance, and IT.
What You'll Be Doing
- Managing HR systems - ensuring upgrades, integrations, and data integrity are maintained.
- Creating and analysing dashboards and reports (Looker Studio / PowerBI).
- Translating data into actionable insights for HR Business Partners and senior leaders.
- Identifying trends in absence, turnover, and engagement data.
- Supporting annual salary review and bonus modelling.
- Working with third-party providers to ensure service quality and system improvement.
- Driving automation and process improvements across HR systems.
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience managing iTrent (essential).
- HR systems and data analytics background - ideally from a commercial/private sector environment.
- Strong Excel, PowerBI, or Looker Studio skills.
- Ability to communicate technical insights in a clear, business-friendly way.
- Excellent stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.
- Experience using Google Suite preferred.
Please put your home postcode on your CV when applying. Our recruitment tech uses this to make sure your CV is reviewed by the relevant consultant, for the relevant job(s), in the relevant geography.
Macildowie are a recruitment business working on behalf of a client to recruit this role. Your personal data may be forwarded to that client company as part of the application process.
If you would like information on how we will process your data please go to our website (macildowie.com) and view our fair processing notices which are located at the bottom of the page under privacy policies. Within the fair processing notice for Candidates there is guidance on how to amend your contact preferences or exercise your rights relating to personal data. We can't provide direct links as email address and website urls within our job adverts are removed by some of the websites on which we advertise.
Macildowie is a specialist recruitment consultancy with a rich history of enhancing the careers of professionals across the Midlands and the Northern Home Counties. We have an unrivalled understanding of the local market place and recruit for the majority of the region's premier employers. To search for all of our live jobs please visit us at macildowie.com.
