HR Consultant

1 week ago

Hull Head Office, United Kingdom Arco Full time £32,000 - £36,000 per year


Are you passionate about people and driven by the idea of shaping a workplace where everyone can thrive? We're looking for a dynamic HR Consultant to join our team on a permanent basis — someone who's ready to roll up their sleeves, support our managers, and make a real impact at every stage of the employee lifecycle. This is a great opportunity for a motivated HR professional who wants to deepen their experience, influence positive changes, and help bring our people agenda to life

As our new HR Consultant, you'll be a trusted coach and advisor to managers across the business, supporting them as required and enabling them to drive great performance and engagement at every level. If you're eager to grow your HR career and play a hands-on role in bringing our people strategy to life, this is your opportunity

As a HR Consultant at Arco, you will work in a hybrid fashion, with a mix of working from our head office in Hull, home based working and site-based travel within the UK when required. 

Key responsibilities include:
  • Supporting our HR Business Partner in the implementation of HR projects and strategic initiatives, leading on specific activity

  • Driving, advocating and actively participating in the Arco comms and engagement strategy for the relevant business area, ensuring the colleague voice is always represented

  • Managing and delivering training and development sessions as required to upskill our people managers whilst coaching managers on HR Policy and processes ensuring best practice is followed

  • Driving the successful utilisation of the HR Operating model in collaboration with our HR Service Centre 

  • Analysing HR data, identifying trends & insights and making recommendations to deliver business performance whilst owning the people data for the relevant business areas

  • Coaching managers to embed the performance management framework and enable a high performing culture 
  • Collaborating with business leads to support change management activity 
On top of working for the UK's leading integrated health and safety experts, you'll also receive:
  • A starting salary between £32,00 to £36,000 plus bonus and a car allowance

  • 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays which rises with service, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days each calendar year

  • 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year

  • An excellent pension (up to 8% Arco contribution) and x4 Life Assurance scheme

  • A huge range of discounts to help with cost of living via Perkbox plus Employee Discount on Arco products

  • Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme

  • Health Cash Plan where we'll reimburse up to 100% of everyday healthcare costs

  • Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
  • Long-term service awards – we're proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years
About you

The ideal HR Consultant will be/have:
  • A sound Employee Relations background, and be ideally CIPD qualified or have relevant demonstrable experience 

  • Excellent Microsoft Office systems knowledge and skills inc. Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel 

  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills with ability to communicate at all levels and be flexible in approach 

  • Good coaching skills and experience of delivering training

  • Comfortable working at pace and results focused

  • An understanding of the change management cycle 

  • Knowledge of talent attraction 

  • The ability to work with minimum of supervision 

  • An understanding of people and commercial metrics


About Us

With a 140-year legacy, Arco are recognised as the UK's leading safety experts. As the only integrated safety products and services business, our size, scale and reputation in the sector are why we have such an impressive portfolio of accounts and customers. We're the expert safety partner with a unique mix of specialist expertise and practical real-life industry knowledge. 

We are now on a transformation journey to become more profitable and sustainable, with investment into our growing business to help achieve this. This is an exciting and demanding time for the business. There is opportunity to shape and challenge the transformation journey and future growth, while balance the pressure to deliver sales growth and financial targets that are necessary to support the future growth. Our behaviours; Care, Collaborate, Perform and Deliver, are embedded within our culture, to drive performance and ensure we succeed together and are rewarded for that shared success. Because It's on us. To deliver. Together.

Diversity and Inclusion at Arco means understanding everyone's views and giving colleagues a sense of belonging. We respect and value individuals for their unique skills, experiences and ideas; to ensure we can be at our best. By creating a supportive and inclusive environment we will be an organisation able to drive our strategic goals, attracting and developing great people to be a more profitable and sustainable business for generations to come. 

Be Safe, Be Yourself, Be Your Best.

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