HR Advisor

**Scope / Purpose of Role**:
A varied generalist role providing a professional and proactive HR advisory service for both the production and business support functions. The HR Advisor will provide a customer focussed service, providing specialist HR advice, as well as leading HR projects, contributing to strategy and implementing policy and process development.

**Reports into**: HR Business Partner

**Direct Reports**: N/A

**K**ey Stakeholders**: HR Team, Payroll, Line Managers, Reception

**Key Result Areas**:

- Build effective relationships with stakeholders. becoming a key trusted adviser
- Provide HR specialist advice and guidance to managers and employees
- Support managers with absence management
- Responsible for effective and efficient management of employee relations cases in aligned area
- Identify and assess any risks/costs to the business and manage these appropriately, escalating if required
- Support and advise managers undertaking business change initiatives
- Coach managers through processes, giving appropriate support and challenge, to ensure that they are best equipped to make appropriate decisions
- Develop regular MI reports to furnish managers with information and allow for data informed decision-making
- Prepare documentation in line with employment law, policies and best practice, e.g. complex outcome letters and employee communications
- Lead on annual processes/compliance/ad-hoc activities and deliver on time and to agreed quality, e.g. bonus, audit
- Any other duties as required

**Key Performance Indicators**:

- Reduction in case management resolution time
- Reduction in absence levels
- Delivery of aligned projects or other activities on time and of agreed quality
- Suggestion and Implementation of continuous Improvement Initiatives

**Skilles & Experience**:
**Qualifications**:

- Associate CIPD membership or equivalent experience
- Up to date knowledge of employment law
- Evidence of CPD ensuring keeping abreast of issues and trends

**Skills**:

- Sound knowledge of employment law and best practise
- Ability to take full ownership of aligned business areas and tasks and operate autonomously
- Ability to operate as a commercial advocate
- Ability to find pragmatic solutions that are aligned to culture and take account of the departments perspective
- Professional and credible while remaining approachable
- Proficient in the use of MS Office Suite
- Advanced skills with Excel
- Keen to develop in role and supportive of process improving and new ways of working
- Ability to maintain confidence
- Ability to work at pace and juggle multiple responsibilities simultaneously and work in a changing environment

**Experience**:

- Experience of delivering an advisory service, e.g. supporting managers with people issues (Essential)
- Experience of participating in and delivering on continuous improvement (Essential)
- Experience of implementing HR systems desirable (HR and/or time and attendance) (Desirable)
- HR experience in manufacturing (Desirable)

**Please note, this is an onsite role, no remote working.