HR Senior Associate

LGBT Great; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

PIMCO in the United Kingdom seeks an HR Generalist to support the Senior HR Business Partner across talent management, performance reviews, campus recruitment and learning & development. You will help drive HR initiatives regionally, balancing operational excellence with AI-enabled solutions to lift capacity and strategic impact.

The role emphasizes process optimization, employee engagement, and evidence-based decision making, with a focus on scalable people operations and policy development.

Responsibilities

• Consult employees on mobility, manage family-friendly policies and long-term sickness absence, lead HR transformation projects, and update/create policy documents.
• Support talent cycle processes, assist in performance reviews, consult on employee relations issues, and provide analytical support for performance metrics.
• Collaborate with campus recruitment teams, understand resourcing requirements, and support immigration management for Intern, Analyst, and Associate programs.
• Utilize and develop talent development resources, identify training needs, and organize training sessions, workshops, and seminars.
• Support HR initiatives such as succession planning and employee engagement programs, create action plans following engagement surveys, and conduct exit interviews.
• Facilitate process improvements across People Operations, focusing on efficiency, scalability, and employee experience in areas such as Leave of Absence management and Regulatory Referencing.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify process improvement and automation opportunities, leveraging AI-driven solutions to streamline HR operations, enhance data-driven insights, reduce administrative burden, and enable more strategic business support.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies and digital tools that improve service delivery, operational effectiveness, and decision-making across HR processes.

Job description

PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income with deep expertise across public and private markets. We invest our clients’ capital across a range of fixed income and credit opportunities, leveraging our decades of experience navigating complex debt markets. Our flexible capital base and deep relationships with issuers have helped us become one of the world’s largest providers of traditional and nontraditional solutions for companies that need financing and investors who seek strong risk-adjusted returns.

Since 1971, our people have shaped our organization through a high-performance inclusive culture, in which we celebrate diverse thinking. We invest in our people and strive to imprint our CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Responsibility and Excellence. We believe each of us is here to help others succeed and this has led to PIMCO being recognized as an innovator, industry thought leader and trusted advisor to our clients.

The successful candidate will support our Senior HR Business Partner in managing and enhancing the needs of our client group focused on selling financial products across the region. This role requires a proactive and strategic approach to talent management, including performance management, campus recruitment, learning and development, and the identification of opportunities to improve HR effectiveness through process optimization, automation, and AI-enabled solutions.

This positioning is particularly aligned with where HR roles are evolving at firms like PIMCO, emphasizing not only operational excellence but also the use of AI and automation to increase HR capacity and strategic impact.

Responsibilities

Generalist Role

• Consult employees on mobility, manage family-friendly policies and long-term sickness absence, lead HR transformation projects, and update/create policy documents.

Performance Management

• Support talent cycle processes, assist in performance reviews, consult on employee relations issues, and provide analytical support for performance metrics.

Campus Recruitment and Talent Acquisition

• Collaborate with campus recruitment teams, understand resourcing requirements, and support immigration management for Intern, Analyst, and Associate programs.

Learning and Development

• Utilize and develop talent development resources, identify training needs, and organize training sessions, workshops, and seminars.

Talent Management and Strategy

• Support HR initiatives such as succession planning and employee engagement programs, create action plans following engagement surveys, and conduct exit interviews.

Process Improvement, AI and Automation

• Facilitate process improvements across People Operations, focusing on efficiency, scalability, and employee experience in areas such as Leave of Absence management and Regulatory Referencing.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify process improvement and automation opportunities, leveraging AI-driven solutions to streamline HR operations, enhance data-driven insights, reduce administrative burden, and enable more strategic business support.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies and digital tools that improve service delivery, operational effectiveness, and decision-making across HR processes.

Equal Employment Opportunity and ... Statement

PIMCO recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, national origin, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and expression), age, military or veteran status, disability (physical or mental), any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other basis such as medical condition, or marital status under applicable laws.

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