People (HR) Advisor

Morrisons; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday

Staff discount 15%

Friend discount 10%

Career progression

Staff canteen

Free parking

Pension & life cover

Healthcare benefits

MyPerks discounts

Family-friendly policies

Job summary

Morrisons is seeking a hands-on People Advisor to lead and support HR activities on site. Reporting to the People Manager, you will coach line managers on absence, disciplinaries and grievances, and drive engagement while building strong relationships with unions and suppliers.

You will design recruitment solutions, manage employee relations proactively, and lead HR projects while ensuring consistent service to internal and external customers across the site.

Qualifications

• CIPD or working towards with up-to-date knowledge of employment relations and employment law.
• Experience advising, supporting and coaching managers.
• Ability to work in a fast-moving HR environment, with manufacturing or logistics experience.
• Proactive approach to continuous business improvements.
• Experience implementing processes with fulfilment.
• Strong customer service and adaptable communication style.
• Good commercial awareness.
• Experience dealing with Unions.
• Ability to take initiative and think outside the box.
• Experience with problem solving tools.

Responsibilities

• Support, coach and challenge line managers with absence, disciplinary and grievance issues.
• Identify development opportunities to improve soft skills and build future talent.
• Lead engaging, proactive communications across the site.
• Build positive relationships with unions and agency suppliers.
• Reinforce the company values and monitor colleague morale.
• Support and drive colleague engagement on site.
• Cover the People Specialist role in absence.
• Lead HR projects on the plan.
• Design and implement effective recruitment solutions.
• Proactively manage Employee Relations.
• Support daily People team admin tasks.

Skills

Coaching managers

Employee relations

Communication

Change management

Project management

Education

CIPD (or working towards)

Job description

More about the role

Our People Advisors are a knowledgeable (and busy) bunch. Managing a HR Assistant, they are hands on with all things people related on site. One minute they can be dealing with an ER issue and the next they can be offering guidance and coaching to the site leadership team. It's a fast paced and varied role, but one thing remains consistent, and that's the quality of service to both our internal and external customers.

Reporting to the People Manager, you will also:

• Support, coach and challenge line managers with absence, disciplinary and grievance issues
• Identify development opportunities to improve soft skills and build future talent
• Lead engaging, proactive communications across the site
• Build positive and effective relationships with unions and agency suppliers
• Reinforce the visions and values in all aspects of work and act as a barometer to colleague morale
• Support and drive colleague engagement on site
• Cover the People Specialise role in their absence
• Lead a number of the projects on the HR plan
• Design and Implement effective recruitment solutions
• Proactively Manage Employee Relations
• Support the People team with day to day admin tasks

More about our perks

• Generous holiday entitlement
• 15% discount in our supermarkets and convenience stores from the day you join us
• Additional 10% discount card for a friend or family member
• Genuine career progression and development opportunities - read more about our Leadership School here
• Subsidised staff canteen
• Free parking
• Competitive pension and life assurance
• Healthcare / Wellbeing benefits including Aviva Digital GP
• 'MyPerks' with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more
• Optional payroll charity donations
• A range of family-friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave

More about you

As well as a 'hands on' attitude and the ability to react well to change in a fast moving environment, you will also need to have:

• CIPD (or working towards) or equivalent. With up to date knowledge of employment relations and employment law and how to apply this
• The ability to work in a fast moving HR environment, with manufacturing or logistics experience
• Experience of advising, supporting and coaching managers
• A proactive approach to continuous business improvements
• Experience of implementing processes with a sense of fulfilment
• A high level of customer service with the ability to bend and flex your communication style accordingly
• Good commercial awareness
• Experience of dealing with Unions
• Ability to act on own initiative and 'think outside the box'
• Experience of problem solving tools
• Project Management Skills (desirable)