HR Advisor P/T

GXO Logistics; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Private medical

Dental insurance

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

GXO Logistics in Derby is seeking a part-time HR Advisor to provide comprehensive HR generalist support to site managers. You will manage employee relations, absence, and engagement initiatives while ensuring policies are applied consistently.

The role is 24 hours per week, site-based, offering a salary up to £25,000 with a pension, private medical, and a range of employee benefits. CIPD Level 3 desirable and experience with Trade Unions is a plus.

Qualifications

• CIPD Level 3 or working towards with a good understanding of employment law.
• Experience advising line managers on employee relations issues and helping set up processes.
• Strong communication and relationship-building across all levels of the business.
• Experience with HRIS and MS Office.
• Desirable: experience working with Trade Unions.

Responsibilities

• Build harmonious relationships with site teams and Trade Union to ensure optimum working efficiency.
• Provide full HR generalist support and advice to Managers and employees, ensuring compliance and mitigating risk.
• Lead absence management, including giving advice and supporting managers, liaising with Occupational Health.
• Drive and promote Employee Engagement and Health & Wellbeing initiatives.
• Assist in designing and delivering development workshops in HR best practice.

Skills

HR generalist

Employee relations

Absence management

HRIS

Microsoft Office

Trade unions

Education

CIPD Level 3 qualification

Tools

HRIS

Microsoft Office

Job description

Are you looking for some flexibility in your HR career? Do you want to make a difference to those around you? Are you wanting to join a business that will support your learning & development?

Here at GXO, we are looking for an experienced HR Advisor to join our team in Derby. You'll report directly to the Regional HR Manager and will be responsible for providing comprehensive generalist HR support to line managers across the site. You'll work in partnership with operational leaders to deliver effective people management solutions and ensure HR policies and procedures are applied consistently. In line with business requirements, you may also be required to provide HR support across other sites or operational areas as needed.

You will play a key role in supporting the delivery of the People agenda with key focus on culture change, talent and process improvement.

This is a part time, permanent, site-based position, working 24 hours a week over 3 days. We are flexible which days these are, to suit you and the business need.

Pay, benefits and more:

We're looking to offer a salary of up to £25,000.00 per annum, and 15 days annual leave (plus bank holidays - pro rata). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, private medical & dental insurance, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You'll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more!

What you'll do on a typical day:

• Build harmonious relationships with the site teams and Trade Union to ensure optimum working efficiency
• Provide full HR generalist support and advice to Managers and employees - ensuring a current knowledge of employee legislation and employee relation issues is maintained to ensure the business area remains compliant and risk is mitigated. Take the lead on complex ER issues
• Take the lead on the management of absence, including making recommendations, giving advice/coaching and support to managers, liaising with Occupational Health, supporting with health review meetings, and other absence related meetings
• Drive and promote Employee Engagement and Health & Wellbeing initiatives
• To assist in the design and delivery of development workshops in areas of HR best practice, to enhance knowledge and skills across the site

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Ideally qualification of CIPD Level 3 or working towards with a good understanding of employment law
• Experience of undertaking a broad range of tasks including working with and advising line managers on employee relations issues and being involved in setting up processes and systems
• Personable with strong communication and relationship building capabilities across all levels of the business
• Strong in systems; HRIS, Microsoft Office such as word and Excel
• Experienced in working with Trade Unions - desirable

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains

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 (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.Review GXO's candidate privacy statement here.