HR Advisor

**HR Advisor**

**Overall purpose of role**:
To provide guidance and support to employees and managers on all people-related matters, enabling high performance teams and fully engaged employees across the organisation through HR best practice.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**HR Business Partnership and Employee Relations**
- Acting as the true People Champion - being the point of contact for onsite employee relations, providing advice and guidance on people issues and escalating to the HR Director as necessary.
- Ensuring organisational compliance with UK employment legislation and guidelines, including IDEX and Matcon policies and procedures.
- Working with the Global HR Team to support the annual engagement survey, data analysis and action plans for the Business Unit and driving through change initiatives as appropriate.
- Enhance the company culture to embrace diversity and act as the employee experience champion within our health and wellness and DEIB initiatives to build a legacy of greatness.
- Attending the monthly Employee Forum, channelling Employee Representative queries as appropriate and facilitating changes for continuous improvement.

**Compensation, Benefits and HRIS**
- Expert-user of the HRIS Workday; ensuring data integrity at all times. Providing reports and data analysis on key HR metrics and general business information.
- Collation, administration and execution of monthly payroll and pensions through Workday.
- Responding to employee queries regarding compensation, benefits and salary sacrifice.
- Full ownership and administration of existing and new company benefits.
- Managing and reporting on all employee absences.
- Creating and generating a variety of reports for internal use and for various regulatory purposes.

**Recruitment & Onboarding**
- Managing the full talent acquisition process for permanent, temporary and contractor roles: advertising, job descriptions, applicant screening, employee referrals, interview scheduling and reference checks.
- Conducts new employee orientation and “on-boarding” to ensure the employee is aware of our values, culture and practices.

**Training, Development and Talent Management**
- Providing support and guidance to managers on performance management, end of year and mid year reviews, 121s and other processes.
- Identifying training needs through skills and competency assessments tools. Arranging individual and business-wide training courses as appropriate.
- Assisting in the organisational talent capability programme, succession planning and individual development plans.
- Coordinating the Apprenticeship programme and facilitating STEM activities.

This list is not exhaustive and the job holder may be asked from time to time to undertake other duties so that the team or department can function efficiently. Such a request will be reasonable and will be within this role’s normal scope of authority.

**Skills & Abilities**:

- Possesses a high level of attention to detail and strong organisational skills.
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate own point of view.
- Ability to provide sound employee relations advice to managers and support them in moderately complex case work.
- Self-motivated and able to work under own autonomy as well as part of a global HR team.
- Possesses critical thinking while problem solving
- Ability to progress within HR and strive to take on more responsibility and accountability.

**Knowledge & Qualifications**:

- Extensive employee relations experience is essential.
- Maintaining knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes and new technologies in HR, talent management and employment law.
- CIPD level 3 or 5

**Location and any travel requirements**:
Matcon Head Office, Evesham, Worcestershire, UK. Occasional travel to local careers fairs may be required. Hybrid model, working two days in office.

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?

**Job Family**: Human Resources