HR Advisor

Citation; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic HR consultancy in the United Kingdom is seeking an HR Advisor to provide support in driving the People Plan and enhancing employee engagement. This role involves managing employee relations issues, supporting training initiatives, and ensuring compliance within a collaborative environment. The ideal candidate will be agile, possess high emotional intelligence, and have a commercial mindset. Competitive salary and generous perks are offered, including holidays and special days off.

Benefits

25 days of holiday + bank holidays

Day off on your birthday

Extra weeks of holiday for newlyweds

Qualifications

• Experience with employee relations (ER) issues from basic to complex cases.
• Wide range of influencing and communication skills.
• Fast-paced and able to adapt to change.

Responsibilities

• Drive the People Plan and deliver key HR initiatives.
• Provide HR support in performance management and employee relations.
• Support new acquisitions and compliance processes.

Skills

Communication skills

Emotional intelligence

Problem-solving skills

Coaching style

Adaptability

Commercial acumen

Initiative

Job description

HR Advisor

Location: Hybrid - 3 days Bracknell, 2 days from home
Working Hours: 37.5 hours a week
Salary: Competitive

We're Citation Group. A group of businesses on a mission to make life easier for small and medium‑size companies. We get that running a business is tough. You're spinning plates trying to keep your customers happy, stay on top of rules and regulations, look after your team, and somehow still grow.

We pride ourselves on creating a workplace where everyone is valued, supported and encouraged to bring their best selves to work. We're known for our supportive culture and our commitment to helping clients stay "ready for anything." If you're a team player who thrives in a fast‑paced environment, we want to hear from you!

Role

Our whole reason for being is to attract, retain and develop great people. We know that you sustainably raise performance through engagement and that leadership and culture is key to this.

We're looking for a commercial HR generalist to play an integral role in our team and business. You will be working closely with Group functions to deliver the People Plan and their basic HR needs, as well as help them be their best whilst driving change, supporting rapid business growth and a variety of ambitious and exciting projects, all while making sure our culture is nurtured and developed. It's a true generalist position!

Responsibilities

• Work closely with assigned areas of the business to drive the People Plan, identify, and deliver key HR initiatives.
• Provide HR support for all matters in your business area, including performance management, training and development, ER issues, including grievances, disciplinaries, capability, redundancy, long‑term sick, disputes, assist with TUPE, colleague wellbeing, including maternity/paternity.
• Project work – we're constantly growing and evolving so there’ll be plenty to get stuck into.
• Stats – understanding our people numbers helps us perform better.
• Rewards & remuneration – from helping develop our benefits to doing the admin and liaising with payroll, you'll be involved.
• Support with embedding new acquisitions into the Citation Group.
• Admin – it needs to be done right and a strong eye for detail is required.
• Compliance/business protection – you will make this integral to the way we work.
• Colleague engagement – everything we do is aimed at protecting and building our high‑performance culture and our great colleague engagement scores.
• Internal communications – we own the internal comms, the voice of our culture, a glue that helps bind us and has never been more important.
• L&D – we keep it relevant, quick and easy to access, be prepared to get involved in supporting the delivery of existing programmes and help create new material.

About you

• Fast‑paced and always changing – you need to be up for the challenge, always ready to adapt and get stuck in.
• Agile with a growth mindset – you will really care about our business, be a role model for and custodian of our culture and always put your best self forward.
• Wide range of influencing and communication skills – with high emotional intelligence and sound commercial acumen, people will want to come to you.
• Positive embrace of change – you will demonstrate how you actively welcome change personally and drive change successfully within your business.
• Commercial edge – you will show your commercial acumen in HR decisions.
• Coaching style – you will show us your coaching and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience with ER issues – from the basics to complex cases.
• Learning mindset – you are always learning, develop, and willing to try.
• Initiative – you will propose new ideas to improve processes for a better colleague experience.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience or exposure to large change projects (could include restructures or business integrations).
• Experience of writing and delivering training.
• Experience in ESG topics such as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion & carbon emissions.
• Experience working at pace in a changing environment.

Perks

• 25 days of holiday + bank holidays.
• Birthday bliss – a day off on your birthday.
• Post‑wedding bliss – extra weeks of holiday for newlyweds.

Join us at Citation, where success comes with unbeatable perks and a culture that truly celebrates your achievements!