The Opportunity

Nigel Wright are delighted to be representing a fantastic service sector organisation who are going through an exiting period of transformation & growth. Due to expansion, our client is recruiting a brand new permanent HR Advisor role to support an established but growing HR team. This role offers huge development opportunities as well as exposure to a number of exciting value add projects.

Role Profile
*Work closely with the HRBP, wider HR Teams and Senior Leaders across the business to identify HR needs and deliver solutions for the specific business areas.
*Take a lead in ensuring HR policies and procedures are up to date and fit for purpose.
*Work closely with the Talent team to understand training and recruitment needs within business areas and support development/secondment opportunities whilst working with the HRBP team to develop solutions based on employee feedback.
*Take a proactive approach in providing frontline advice to Managers on HR matters including; sickness absence, discipline, grievance and performance.
*Be involved in wider projects to support business initiatives in relation to colleague well-being, ESG and Inclusion initiatives.
*Support the wider HR team in the delivery of the HR strategy whilst identifying personal development opportunities.
*Work closely with the marketing team to determine appropriate communication mechanisms to ensure all HR messages are received by colleagues throughout the business. 
*Build strong relationships with employees and management teams across the business to understand support needs and also ensuring communication methods are adapted to individual areas of the business to ensure they are fit for purpose.
*Ideally CIPD qualified ( or working towards).


What we are looking for?
The successful candidate will be a driven, enthusiastic HR Advisor who is keen to develop their career as well as proven experience in ensuring policies are up to date, managing sickness/absence, supporting with ER cases and providing HR support to management/leadership teams. The ideal candidate pride themselves on building strong internal relationships and be proactive in spotting opportunities to support managers on HR matters. Experience in multi-site, blue collar environments would also be ideal as there will be some requirement for travel (hybrid working supported). The successful candidate must be an excellent communicator and have previous experience of working as a HR Advisor or similar, ideally in a multi-location business as travel will be required at times. Demonstrable knowledge of employment legislation is also essential. whilst this is a HR Advisor role, it will offer the opportunity to take ownership on a number of initiatives and gaining generalist exposure across a growing business. 
Nigel Wright
Please get in touch with Hollie Beecham if this role is of interest and you would like to discuss in more detail.