HR Advisor

HR Advisor - Performance Enabling

£45K-50K P.A

Silverstone (Office based)

Our client, a luxury manufacturer, has an exciting opportunity for a HR Advisor to join their team!

The role:

Reports to: HR Business Partner - Technologies

• Work closely with the HR Business Partner to deliver best-in-class service across the Performance Enabling functions to drive a high-performance culture and provide comprehensive HR support and guidance.
• Actively contribute to build organisation and people capability aligned to the wider business strategy.
• Establish strong working relationships by conducting regular meetings with key stakeholders within Commercial & Marketing, IT, Finance, Young Driver/ Heritage Programme.
• First point of contact for case management and tracking for employee relations (investigations, disciplinary, grievance, performance management, probation reviews), escalating to the Senior/HR Business Partner where necessary.
• Support team members and develop and coach managers in line with internal policies and HR best practice.
• Coordinating actions from the talent profiling and performance review processes.
• Support in the development of training plans, placing training initiatives (including e-learning) and arranging training activities as and when required, in coordination with the HR & Talent Development Specialist.
• With the support of the HR Business Partners, actively support the effective management of business area’s headcount requirements ensuring budget targets are achieved, and cost cap opportunities are optimised.
• Collaborate with fellow HR Advisors in collating and analysing workforce planning data to establish trends and propose solutions to workforce planning issues.
• Support the annual pay review process.
• Main point of contact for absence management & analysing data trends, proactively looking for areas of improvement. Supporting employees within the occupational health process.
• Maintain accurate team member documentation.
• Support the Senior/HR Business Partners with contract changes & variations.
• Actively contribute in key initiatives to successfully implement and enhance the culture.
• Support the HR Business Partners with Project work and take ownership of small-scale projects (including change management).
• Responsible for supporting recruitment, performance management, implementing HR initiatives and advising, guiding, and supporting all team members and management.
• Where required, support the onboarding and off-boarding activities.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal standards and reduce risks related to daily management of employees.

Key skills/experience:

• Ideally qualified, or studying towards, CIPD Level 5, or equivalent qualification or experience.
• Ideally, possesses previous experience in a similar role, working within a high-pace and high-performance environment.
• Possesses excellent working knowledge and experience of HR in a professional workplace and have a practical and hands on approach.
• Possesses a good understanding of UK employment legislation, HR policy and process.
• A confident, approachable & professional communicator at all levels, able to adapt style as required.
• Strong organisational, communication and conflict resolution skills.
• Champions change and inspires others through excellent creativity and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent IT skills including MS Office, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.