Outsourced HR support across Leeds
Our team works with employers across Leeds and the wider West Yorkshire area, 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 Yorkshire.
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 Leeds team
Leeds is one of the largest financial and legal centres outside London, with a digital sector and a manufacturing base alongside it. We support organisations with exactly these challenges. In professional and financial services that includes BNF Capital. In manufacturing and packaging, Atlas Packaging and Garador. In wholesale and distribution, Philip Dennis Foodservice. Read how we supported BNF as an ongoing client member.
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 Leeds contact
Abi Meehan, People Business Partner, covers Leeds and West Yorkshire. She 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 Leeds come to us
Leeds has a deep professional services market, and the competition for people reflects it. Law firms, banks, insurers and a fast-moving digital sector recruit from the same pool, and several are now hiring nationally for roles that used to be filled locally.
That produces the questions we are asked most often here. Holding on to good people when a competitor two streets away can match the salary. Building progression that means something in a flat structure. Handling performance and absence consistently when half the team works from home and half does not.
Where we work across West Yorkshire
We support employers across Leeds and the wider county, including Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Halifax. For the county as a whole, see our HR consultancy in West Yorkshire.
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 West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire 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.
