HR Advisor

GXO Logistics, Inc.; Bracknell; Hybrid; GBP 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company in Bracknell is seeking an HR Advisor to provide first line HR guidance. This full-time role involves supporting management, maintaining employee records, resolving HR issues, and regular travel across the Southern UK. Ideal candidates will have HR advisory experience and excellent communication skills. The position offers a salary of up to £35,000 and various benefits including annual leave and flexible dental insurance.

Benefits

Salary up to £35,000

25 days annual leave

Company car

Flexible dental insurance

Pension scheme

24/7 online GP service

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience in resolving complex employment law problems within logistics.
• Excellent communication and engagement skills needed.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.

Responsibilities

• Provide HR first line guidance to management.
• Maintain accurate employee records.
• Support recruitment, selection, and induction processes.
• Implement colleague communication and engagement strategies.

Skills

HR Advisory experience

Communication skills

Microsoft Office proficiency

Influencing and relationship-building

Education

CIPD Level 5 or above

Job description

Overview

Here at GXO, we are currently looking for an HR Advisor to join us at our site in Bracknell (base site). You will provide HR first line guidance to the site management team on HR practice, supporting the HR Manager to deliver the People Plan, support engagement and comms initiatives, resolve employee relations issues, and to develop the correct behaviours and culture according to the GXO Values. This is a full-time, permanent role working Monday to Friday, covering the hours of 09:00 till 17:00, with some flexibility required as this opportunity involves regular travel across the Southern regions of the UK, so candidates must be comfortable with frequent travel and working across multiple sites.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update employee records on the HR system, ensuring accuracy
• Support, coach and advise key stakeholders on all HR issues, including discipline, grievance, absence management and performance improvement
• Assist in devising and implementing colleague communication and engagement strategies at site level
• Upskill managers and assist with payroll processing
• Contribute to the provision of systematic and effective recruitment, selection and induction processes, involving the recruitment team where appropriate
• Coordinate and manage the HR activity required to ensure that TUPE, redundancy, retention and redeployment activities are executed in line with statutory and company requirements
• Support a reduction in the potential for costly litigation by conducting regular and effective site HR reviews

Qualifications and Requirements

• Previous HR Advisory experience including involvement in solving complex employment law problems, within a logistics background is preferred
• CIPD Level 5 or above, or working towards is desirable
• Good use of Microsoft Office - Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Excellent communication and engagement skills, with the ability to build strong relationships, influence positively, and foster a collaborative, people-focused environment across all levels of the business

Benefits

• Salary of up to £35,000.00 per annum (dependant on experience)
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Company car
• Flexible dental insurance plans
• Company sponsored pension scheme
• 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and an employee assistance programme
• Access to MyBenefits platform offering discounts, cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, saving scheme and more

About GXO

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team - energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time. Review GXO's candidate privacy statement here.

Note

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.