HR Consultant

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**HR Consultant**

**Based from Burton Upon Trent (DE14 2UZ) with regular travel between sites**

**£40,123.00 per annum, plus car / car allowance, 25 days rising holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme**

**About the Job**

Relationships mean everything to us, and this one is particularly special. You’ll provide credible, value add HR support, particularly in the areas of Reward, Engagement, Capability and Resourcing to the business management and colleagues.

Here at Unipart we don’t just have a way of working, we have The Unipart Way. It allows everyone in our team to pursue their own personal and professional goals to a world class level, through Unipart's ‘From Gate to Great’ training and development program.

As a HR Consultant you will provide consultative support and coaching across the entire employee lifecycle, to the leadership team.

As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

- Advise, coach and guide line managers about levels and types of reward
- Deputise for the HRBP/HRM where required
- Represent the HR department at relevant site meetings where appropriate
- Be an ambassador for HR across the business and with clients
- Support the initiatives and organisation of the Employee Engagement Survey
- Support, coach and work closely with the Forum and the General Manager(s) to ensure there is an effective employee voice
- Promote and support the talent management process, using the competency framework and succession planning tools; proactively supporting and building the talent plan to ensure all competency risks are known, managed and planned for
- Deliver HR training modules and other training and development activities in conjunction with the HR Advisors and the Capability team
- Lead the HR element of all site/within Sector based change programmes / projects (TUPE, Restructure, Redundancy, shift changes)
- Support the HR business partners in tender processes for new business
- Develop and maintain excellent relationships with the department’s internal and external customers / suppliers
- Conduct bi-annual audits (as a minimum) of the on-site temporary recruitment agency to ensure compliance with UL service level agreement (SLA) and legislation
- Review and discuss required actions related to analysis from weekly and monthly management information (MI) with senior site managers, providing insight and assistance to drive improvements across sites

**About You**
- Previous experience of managing change management processes (TUPE/ redundancy/restructures etc.)
- Complete understanding of HR processes and procedures
- Up to date, working knowledge of current UK employment law
- Proven experience of working in a confidential environment
- Customer focused
- Excellent communication, planning and organisational skills in order to meet deadlines and maintain engagement
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify and resolve issues
- IT literate with a good working knowledge of MS Office and Google Suites

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.