Outsourced HR support across Birmingham
Our team works with employers across Birmingham and the wider West Midlands, providing experienced HR support when and where it is needed. We work with organisations across the region remotely, on site and through pre-arranged meetings at locations across the West Midlands.
Sometimes that means becoming your outsourced people team. Sometimes it means adding extra expertise or capacity to an existing HR team. And sometimes you simply need someone experienced to help you work through a difficult people issue or a period of change.
Whatever brings us in, we’re practical. We’ll get to know your business, understand what you’re trying to achieve and give you advice you can actually use.
We offer different ways to work with us, including:
Retained HR Services
HR
On Demand
Outsourced People Team
Support for inhouse HR teams
Sector experience behind your Birmingham team
Birmingham and the West Midlands run on manufacturing and engineering, on professional and financial services, and on the logistics that move between them. We support organisations with exactly these challenges. In manufacturing and packaging that includes Atlas Packaging and Garador. In professional and financial services, BNF Capital. In wholesale and distribution, Philip Dennis Foodservice. Read how we supported Atlas Packaging through growth and restructuring.
How we can help
Our team supports businesses with everything from day-to-day HR challenges to bigger people and organisational projects, including:
- Outsourced HR support and people partnering
- Employee relations and complex people issues
- Leadership and management development
- Organisational design and change
- Recruitment and talent planning
- Pay, reward and performance
- HR systems and technology
You’ll have experienced people around the table when you need them, but we’re just as happy rolling our sleeves up and getting things done.
How support changes as you grow
As businesses grow, their people needs change. What worked with 20 employees often doesn’t work with 50 or 100.
We help you work out what you need now, what can wait and what will make the biggest difference. That might mean putting better foundations in place, helping managers become more confident, improving the way you recruit and retain people, or giving your existing HR team access to specialist expertise they don’t have in-house.
The aim isn’t to make HR more complicated. It’s to make managing people easier and help you build a business where good people want to work and stay.
Your Birmingham contact
Jack Webb, Senior Employee Relations Specialist, covers Birmingham and the West Midlands. He is the person you speak to, backed by a team of more than thirty specialists covering employment law, employee relations, talent and reward. Meet the team.
Why employers in Birmingham come to us
Birmingham is the second largest city in the UK, with a professional and financial services sector sitting alongside a manufacturing and engineering base that still supplies the automotive industry. Five universities feed a young workforce into both, and the motorway network makes the city a distribution hub in its own right.
That mix produces the questions we are asked most often here. Holding on to people who can move to a competitor across the city without changing their commute. Managing shift and production workforces alongside office teams under one set of policies. Handling restructures in supply chains where demand moves faster than headcount plans.
Where we work in the West Midlands
We support employers across Birmingham and the wider West Midlands, including Solihull, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Walsall and West Bromwich.
Looking for a different part of the country? See our full list of locations, or read more about outsourced HR and employee relations support.
Common questions
You do not. We support employers across the West Midlands remotely, on site and through pre-arranged meetings, so where your office sits matters less than the support you need.
Yes. Plenty of clients bring us in for a single tribunal claim, a restructure or a TUPE transfer, then come back when the next one lands.
Usually within a few days. Where something urgent has landed, such as a grievance or a suspension, we can normally speak to you the same week.
Yes. Much of our work in the West Midlands is with businesses between 20 and 250 people, where a full in-house HR function is hard to justify but the people issues are the same.
