Senior HR Advisor, Practice, UK

linklaters; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Free in-house fitness centre

Pension and flexible savings options

Additional holiday/birthday leave

Job summary

Linklaters seeks an experienced HR Generalist on a 12-month fixed-term contract based in London with a hybrid working model. The role combines hands-on HR delivery with stakeholder partnership, supporting employee relations, performance, absence and wellbeing, talent, and engagement initiatives.

You will coach senior stakeholders, help shape inclusion and retention activities, and turn people data into actionable insights, while contributing to firmwide HR priorities.

Qualifications

• Proven HR advisory experience within a complex organisation.
• Sound knowledge of UK HR practice and employee relations.
• Confidence working with senior and demanding stakeholders.
• Experience supporting key employee lifecycle processes.
• Strong judgement, discretion and attention to detail.
• Ability to interpret data and present meaningful insights; collaborative mindset; openness to AI-enabled ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Advise on employee relations, performance, absence and wellbeing.
• Coach stakeholders through challenging people conversations.
• Support talent, performance and compensation processes.
• Help shape engagement, inclusion and retention activity.
• Turn people data into clear, actionable insights.
• Drive improvements to HR processes and service delivery.
• Manage day-to-day matters while contributing to wider People priorities and firmwide projects.

Education

CIPD or professional qualification (desirable)

Job description

Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices. Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

The role

This is an opportunity to become a trusted people adviser to our UK practices, combining hands-on HR delivery with meaningful stakeholder partnership, and is offered as a 12 month fixed term contract.

Working closely with partners, lawyers, HR Managers and Heads of HR, you will:

• Advise on employee relations, performance, absence and wellbeing
• Coach stakeholders through challenging people conversations
• Support talent, performance and compensation processes
• Help shape engagement, inclusion and retention activity
• Turn people data into clear, actionable insights
• Drive improvements to HR processes and service delivery

You’ll have the autonomy to manage day-to-day matters while contributing to wider People priorities and firmwide projects.

What we're looking for

We're looking for an experienced HR generalist who combines strong technical knowledge with a practical, commercial approach.

You’ll need

You’ll need:

• Proven HR advisory experience within a complex organisation
• Sound knowledge of UK HR practice and employee relations
• Confidence working with senior and demanding stakeholders
• Experience supporting key employee lifecycle processes
• Strong judgement, discretion and attention to detail
• The ability to interpret data and present meaningful insightsA collaborative mindset and confidence embracing AI-enabled ways of working

CIPD or another relevant professional qualification is desirable, rather than essential.

What's on offer

This role will be based in our London office, with a hybrid working model.

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

Health & Wellbeing

• Private Medical Insurance
• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments

Finance

• Pension and flexible savings options
• Income protection and life assurance
• Mortgage advice and will-writing services.

Family & Lifestyle

• Electric car and cycle to work schemes.
• Emergency family care
• Additional holiday/birthday leave.
• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave.
• Travel insurance and season ticket loan
• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.