HR Consultant in Sheffield and South Yorkshire
Senior HR support for growing businesses across Sheffield and South Yorkshire
King HR Advisory is a Sheffield-based HR consultancy offering senior people support to growing businesses and charities that don't have an HR function in-house — but have reached the point where they need one. We work with founders, MDs and CEOs across Sheffield and South Yorkshire who are dealing with real people complexity and need experienced, practical advice rather than a helpline and a template.
You work directly with a Chartered CIPD professional with over 15 years of senior HR leadership experience across regulated industries, financial services, health and wellbeing, charities and international teams. No account managers. No rotating advisors. Just us.
What Sheffield businesses come to us for
The organisations we work with across Sheffield and South Yorkshire tend to arrive with one of three things going on.
Something's gone wrong and it needs handling properly. A grievance that's escalating. A dismissal that wasn't handled cleanly. A manager who's become the problem. An exit that needs a settlement agreement and a clear process. These situations are manageable if you get the right support early. They become expensive if you don't.
People infrastructure that hasn't kept up with growth. Contracts from five years ago. No handbook. No performance framework. Onboarding that's different every time. The business has grown from 10 people to 40 and the people side is starting to show the strain.
A situation that needs senior judgment, not just an answer. Something sensitive. Something that could reach a tribunal. Something where the person running the organisation is too close to it and needs an experienced, independent view. That's where we come in.
HR consultancy services in Sheffield
We offer three ways of working, each designed to give you senior HR expertise without the full-time cost.
Fractional Head of People. Your part-time HR Director, embedded in your leadership team. Strategic oversight, board-level involvement, and hands-on delivery when it's needed. You get continuity, context and someone who genuinely knows your organisation. From £1,750/month.
HR & People Advisory. Retained access to a named HR consultant who knows your business. Day-to-day guidance, employee relations, compliance, manager coaching. Not a helpline. Not a rotating team. One advisor, ongoing. From £750/month.
Strategic People Projects. Defined-scope work with a clear brief and fixed or quoted fee. Redundancies. TUPE transfers. Investigations. Handbook and contract rewrites. Pay reviews. We scope it, agree the fee, and deliver it properly.
We support organisations across Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley and the wider South Yorkshire region, as well as clients across the UK where work suits a remote or hybrid arrangement.
Why organisations in Sheffield choose us
There are other HR consultants in Sheffield. Most operate on a volume model; a package, a helpline number, and whoever's available that day. That works for straightforward queries. It doesn't work if your situation is complex, if you're in a regulated sector, or if you need someone who'll understand your organisation rather than just respond to your ticket.
We keep our client list small deliberately. It means your HR consultant knows your team, your culture and your history. When something difficult happens, and at some point it always does, you're not starting from scratch with someone who's never heard of you.
We're based in Sheffield. Not serving Sheffield from a distance. This is where we work, where our professional networks are, and where we understand the business landscape.
Credentials and experience
Chartered CIPD. MSc in Human Resource Management (Distinction). Over 15 years of senior HR leadership across insurance, financial services, health and wellbeing, manufacturing, and the charity sector. Track record includes scaling a people function across 11 countries, delivering Investors in People Gold three consecutive times, winning UK Employer of the Year 2021, reducing gender pay gap from 28% to 7%, and serving as a trustee at two Yorkshire charities. We've handled the full range: disciplinaries, grievances, TUPE, restructures, settlement agreements, tribunal preparation, board-level people strategy.
Frequently Asked Questions
What size of organisation do you typically work with? Most of our clients have somewhere between 10 and 150 people. Past the point where informal people management works, not yet at the scale where a full-time HR function makes sense. That said, we also work with smaller organisations navigating significant complexity, and larger ones with a specific project need.
Is this the same as outsourced HR? Not quite. Outsourced HR typically means a provider handling transactional HR administration. What we offer is senior advisory support: strategic, experienced, and involved at the level where the real decisions get made. Think fractional Head of People rather than outsourced HR function.
How does the fractional model work? We agree a regular commitment, typically a set number of days per month, and embed into your organisation at senior level. You get continuity, context, and someone who genuinely knows your business.
How much does an HR consultant in Sheffield cost? It depends on the shape of the work. Retained advisory starts from a monthly fee based on the level of support you need. Project work is scoped and quoted individually. Pricing is always transparent with no hidden fees. The best way to get a clear picture is to book a discovery call and talk through what you actually need.
What's the difference between an HR consultant and an employment solicitor? An employment solicitor advises on the law. An HR consultant advises on how to manage people well within the law. Most of the situations we deal with never need a solicitor if they're handled properly in the first place. Where legal advice is needed, we work alongside employment lawyers and can help coordinate that relationship.
Do you work across the whole of South Yorkshire? Yes. We support businesses and organisations across Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley and the wider region. We also work with clients across the UK where the work suits a remote or hybrid arrangement.