Senior HR Advisor

**Job Title**: Senior HR Advisor - Performance and Culture

**Location**: Preston, Frimley, Scotstoun, Govan, Portsmouth or Barrow-In-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

**Salary**: Circa £55,000 dependent on experience and skills

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Handle and lead on all informal Business HR owned case management activities around probationary period, performance, conduct or attendance via coaching and/or informal resolution practices with timely completion of documentation and follow up on agreed outcomes
- Work closely with Business HR and Employee Relations (COE) on any cases which may escalate to formal stages, and ensure timely handover and continuity, where appropriate
- Demonstrate extensive Employee Relations knowledge and provide extensive support to each area of the business
- Build trusted relationships across all delivery areas to support effective and timely resolution of any emerging or on-going people issues ensuring to adopt a fair and consistent approach
- Identify and analyse underlying issues or recurring themes and trends behind any performance, behaviour, culture issues
- Act as a strategic partner with Business HR in providing detailed and driven insights, recommendations and solutions to key stakeholders on future state to prevent re-occurrence of any highlighted issues and trends; supporting a high-performance culture. This may include delivery of training and coaching to people managers

**Your skills and experiences**:
Essential:

- Proven experience of working in large, complex, unionised, project-based organisations
- Extensive and proven experience in supporting and resolving Employee Relations activities such as case management
- Ability to identify trends through root cause analysis to support in driving performance and improving culture
- Proven ability to partner with stakeholders and influence business decisions

Desirable:

- Associate member of the CIPD or working towards or equivalent
- Coaching and/or mediation qualifications

**Benefits**:
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

**The Shared Services Business HR team**:
The Shared Services Business HR Team is seeking a people focused Senior HR Advisor to provide comprehensive and generalist HR support to line managers with a key focus on driving performance and productivity, promoting a positive culture and handing all levels of informal people matters effectively. This role will play a key part in being able to identify the root cause of workforce issues, providing effective HR support and advice with a proven ability to monitor data, trends and provide innovative solutions in support of continuous improvement.

**Why BAE Systems?**

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

**Closing Date**: 9th July 2025

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