Senior HR Advisor

Company Profile

Radwell is an ISO accredited award-winning global leader in industrial automation parts distribution and repair solutions. Recognised as the world’s largest stockist of over 30 million parts their facility in Newcastle-under-Lyme serves 75,000 customers in 179 countries, including customers in the Food Processing, Energy, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing and Automotive sectors.

JOB SUMMARY

Are you an experienced HR Advisor looking for that next step or a Senior HR Advisor wanting to develop your generalist skills or gain more experience in private sector?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior HR Advisor to join our friendly and professional People services team. The role will be based in either Blackburn or NewcasTle under Lyme, with regular travel between our branches.

This is a true generalist role and you will work across the whole HR remit including employee relations, learning and development, payroll, recruitment, employee engagement and policy development in the UK as well as Europe. The key elements of your role will include;

• To provide a comprehensive professional Human Resources (HR) advice in accordance with legislative, company requirements, policies and procedures.

• Advise line managers and employees on HR policies and procedures, Terms & Conditions of Employment and the promotion of good employee relations.

• To create, update and ensure full compliance with UK employee handbooks, policies and procedures

• Assisting with senior level recruitment and other recruitment within Europe.

• To arrange, and assist in investigations for disciplinary, capability and grievance cases up to and including dismissal.

• Advising managers on sickness cases, arrange welfare meetings in line with the Sickness Absence and Ill health procedure including welfare visits and liaising with Occupational Health.

• Responsible for analysing workforce data relating to our key people management and performance indicators of sickness absence, candidate attraction and recruitment, retention and staff turnover, identifying actions needed to address any hot spots and ensuring the development and implementation of any remedial plans.

• Using a coaching style, you will work closely with your department managers to ensure targets are met and best practice is embedded.

• Creation and delivery of internal training programmes around the whole suite of HR policies / procedures

• Change Management programmes

• Assisting the HR Manager in TUPE transfers through mergers and acquisitions across Europe.

• People oriented and results driven
• Able to empathise, be supportive and sensitive to the needs of others as well as being able to cope with conflicting and competing demands, a willingness to be challenged and a confident approach in managing complex change and working well under pressure
• Ability to work using own initiative and without direct supervision and to work as a member of a team
• Excellent verbal reasoning
• Able to maintain confidential information

• Proven work experience in HR Advisor role
• Demonstrable experience with Human Resources metrics
• Knowledge of HR systems, ability to manipulate data for workforce analytics
• Knowledge and current thinking of effective and efficient HR practice on all aspects of HR Management
• Knowledge of current and impending UK employment law and ability to apply to the working environment
• Ability to work flexibly in order to meet the needs of the service, and the ability to travel independently across the county/further afield
• Ability to prepare written reports and to make presentations to managers and staff. Able to produce meaningful management information that is of value
• Ability to advise on both informal and formal approaches to resolving individual performance, ill health, conduct and grievance issues, based on sound knowledge
• Able to provide generalist HR advice and guidance across a broad spectrum of HR services
• Experience of devising and delivering training packages on employment related courses to line managers
• Extensive experience of working in a complex environment with differing T&Cs and demonstrable experience of developing effective relations and partnership working across a diverse range of teams

Desirable

• At least a Level 5 CIPD qualification or working towards it
• Experience of HR within other European locations
• Mediation training