HR Advisor

Our client is a long established and highly successful business, a market leader across their sector. They are currently looking to recruit a full-time office-based HR Advisor.

The role involves supporting the HR and Talent team with contracts, inductions, on and off boarding, ER, absence management, performance management, ad hoc referrals, day to day HR and some HR admin support work, dealing with UK wide stakeholders, pulling key information together into reports, spotting trends, and data capture, supporting on some HR projects, being a key member of the supportive HR team and assisting where possible to make sure the department offers the very best service possible to the business.

An outstanding opportunity to work for a long-established market leader in the FMCG sector. The role will be a full-time office-based generalist HR position working as part of a friendly supportive HR team across a busy, fast-moving business with some Teams exposure to different sites across the UK.

The role will require ER (casework) knowledge and experience
Good employment law knowledge
Previous experience in recruitment, contracts, on-off boarding, ER, day to day HR, absence management (triggers), performance management, long term sickness (experience monitoring PIPS), supporting admin with letters/admin when required, ad hoc referrals, reports/data capture/inputting details onto the system correctly,
Exposure to supporting on some HR projects
Previous experience working on HR projects
Union Exposure
Provide excellent HR support to the busy HR team and capable of prioritising a busy workload
Skills
CIPD 3 (working towards CIPD 5) or CIPD 5 (support longer term to achieve CIPD 5 if required)
Good Up-To-Date employment law knowledge
Experience of ER (taking meetings with Managers)
Previously worked in manufacturing in a busy organisation where no two days are the same
At least 2 years HR experience working at HR Advisor level or 1 year if in FMCG sector
Excellent attention to detail, good communication skills, confident working in a team and on own
Previous experience of day-to-day HR admin, excellent IT skills (experience producing statistics, reports and identifying data/trends etc)
A strong team player (taking the initiative and willing to grow and develop within the HR team)
Previously worked in manufacturing (blue collar)
Benefits:
Private Healthcare after qualifying period,
Gym membership discounted,
Free parking,
The Consultancy:
Edwards & Pearce acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers.

Edwards & Pearce is an Equal Opportunities Employer.