People And Culture Advisor (Part Time)

Cox Automotive; Leicester Forest East; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Option to buy additional holiday days

Birthday off (paid)

Well-Being Day

Charity Day

Career progression across Cox network

Competitive pension

Job summary

Cox Automotive is hiring an HR Advisor to support the Dealer Auction division in the UK. This hybrid role covers Leicester and Manchester, focusing on delivering practical HR advice and coaching managers through the employee lifecycle.

You will champion inclusive culture, manage employee relations, and help drive engagement using data and insights while ensuring compliance with UK employment law and GDPR requirements.

Qualifications

• Full UK Driving Licence.

Responsibilities

• Shape and deliver a people strategy that supports the business and helps people thrive.
• Recruitment and onboarding experiences, plus learning and development opportunities with partner programs.
• Keep policies up to date, fair, and engaging, aligned with UK employment law.
• Run engagement surveys, listen to colleague feedback, and translate insights into action.
• Champion diversity and inclusion, ensuring everyone feels welcome and valued.
• Support managers with day-to-day HR matters and coaching.
• Communicate benefits and opportunities to colleagues, ensuring awareness of available support.
• Apply UK employment law and best practice across HR processes.
• Manage employee relations including absence, performance, disciplinary and grievance processes.
• Build trusted relationships with managers and stakeholders, handling confidential information carefully.
• Use people data to spot trends and drive improvements aligned with business performance.

Skills

HR Advisory

UK Employment Law

Employee Relations

Coaching Stakeholders

Data-driven HR

GDPR Standards

Education

Bachelor's in HR or related field

Tools

HRIS Systems

MS Office

Job description

HR Advisor

Leicester / Manchester (Hybrid)

Accelerate your career with a company that leads the way

Overview

The HR function plays a pivotal role in shaping and delivering the people strategy that drives performance and growth across the organisation. By aligning HR initiatives with business objectives, the team supports a culture of engagement, development, and continuous improvement.

Why Join Us & What’s In It For You?

As a Cox Automotive team member, you’ll have access to a wide range of benefits, including exclusive discounts, cashback offers and our brilliant peer to peer recognition scheme. And there’s even more to enjoy:

• Option to buy additional holiday days
• Your birthday off every year - paid
• One annual Well-Being Day for you to relax and recharge
• One paid Charity Day to give back and support a cause that matters to you
• Opportunities for career progression across the Cox Automotive network
• Competitive pension scheme

About The Role

You will be supporting our Dealer Auction business which is a digital business leading the way in the transformation of automotive remarketing. A joint venture between Auto Trader and Cox Automotive, Dealer Auction is the UK’s largest online wholesale marketplace.

Dealer Auction’s core purpose is to help automotive businesses buy and sell used vehicles online, faster, and smarter than any other platform. Customers include Manufacturer’s; Fleet & Leasing companies; Franchise and Independent Retailers. Transacting over 120,000 vehicles every year, Dealer Auction attracts over 5500 buyers and 1200 sellers. As buying and selling moves away from traditional methods into online solutions, Dealer Auction is set to grow exponentially.

Working collaboratively with our parent companies and key stakeholders, you will champion an inclusive, engaging culture where everyone feels valued and empowered to be themselves. With a strong understanding of UK employment practices, you will provide trusted, practical HR advice, coach managers through the employee lifecycle, manage employee relations matters and support organisational change. Using people data and insights, you will help drive fair, consistent people practices and identify opportunities to enhance employee engagement and the overall colleague experience.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Working with our leadership team to shape and deliver a people strategy that supports our business and helps our people thrive.
• Creating a great recruitment and onboarding experience, while making the most of learning and development opportunities from our parent companies and external partners.
• Keeping our people policies up to date, fair and engaging, ensuring we meet UK employment legislation and best practice.
• Building on our culture by listening to colleague feedback, running engagement surveys and turning insights into actions that make Dealer Auction a great place to work.
• Championing diversity and inclusion, helping everyone feel welcome, valued and able to be themselves at work.
• Supporting managers with day-to-day people matters, coaching them through challenges and helping develop plans that get the best from their teams.
• Bringing our people communications to life, making sure colleagues know about and can make the most of the benefits, opportunities and support available to them.
• Bringing a good understanding of UK employment law and HR best practice.
• Having experience supporting employee relations matters, including absence, performance, disciplinary and grievance processes.
• Building trusted relationships with managers and providing practical, commercially focused HR advice.
• Staying organised, managing competing priorities and handling confidential information with care.
• Using people data to spot trends, identify opportunities and make recommendations that support business performance.
• Having a keen eye for detail when managing employee records, policies and HR processes.

What We’re Looking For

• Full UK Driving License
• Proven experience in an HR Advisor, People Advisor or HR Generalist role, with a strong understanding of UK employment law and HR best practice, providing practical, commercially focused advice.
• Experience managing a range of employee relations matters, including disciplinary, grievance, absence, capability and performance processes, as well as supporting organisational change and business transformation.
• Strong coaching, influencing and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to support managers, develop their people management capabilities and build trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• A passion for creating a positive, inclusive workplace culture, with experience in employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, recruitment, onboarding and talent management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret people data, identify trends and recommend improvements that balance colleague needs with business performance.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently and communicate clearly and confidently.
• Experience developing and reviewing HR policies, maintaining HR systems and employee records accurately, and handling sensitive information in line with GDPR and confidentiality requirements.
• Confident using Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint, alongside HR information systems, ideally within a fast-paced and evolving business environment

We’re Committed to Inclusion

We are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in all its forms. We are a place where you can be you.