Senior Human Resources Advisor

Gallagher; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance broking firm located in the City Of London seeks an experienced Senior HR Advisor to provide expert guidance across various HR activities, ensuring compliance and driving organizational change. The successful candidate will have strong knowledge of employment law and HR best practices, and will work closely with managers to enhance people management capabilities. Benefits include competitive salary, generous holiday allowance, and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Minimum of 25 days holiday

Defined contribution pension scheme

Life insurance

Income protection

Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Volunteering days

Employee Stock Purchase plan

Critical illness cover

Discounted gym membership

Emergency back-up family care

Qualifications

• CIPD qualification or equivalent experience required.
• Strong knowledge of employment law and HR policies essential.
• Proficiency in Oracle or similar HR systems necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert HR advice and coaching to managers.
• Manage employee relations cases ensuring compliance.
• Support restructuring and office relocations.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Employee Relations

Organizational Change

HR Advisory Skills

Decision Making

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Education

CIPD qualification or equivalent experience

Educated to degree level

Tools

Oracle or similar HR systems

Microsoft Office

Job description

Introduction

At Gallagher, we help clients face risk with confidence because we believe that when businesses are protected, they’re free to grow, lead, and innovate.

You’ll be backed by our digital ecosystem: a client-centric suite of consulting tools making it easier for you to meet your clients where they want to be met. Advanced data and analytics providing a comprehensive overview of the risk landscape is at your fingertips.

Here, you’re not just improving clients' risk profiles, you’re building trust. You’ll find a culture grounded in teamwork, guided by integrity, and fueled by a shared commitment to do the right thing. We value curiosity, celebrate new ideas, and empower you to take ownership of your career while making a meaningful impact for the businesses we serve.

If you’re ready to bring your unique perspective to a place where your work truly matters; think of Gallagher.

Overview

As a Senior HR Advisor, you will be a trusted partner to the business, providing expert HR guidance and support to ensure best practice and commercially focused solutions are delivered.

You will have the opportunity to work closely with managers and employees to address complex HR challenges, drive organisational change, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our HR service delivery.

This is a varied and dynamic role where no two days are the same. You will work on a wide range of HR activities, including employee relations, organisational design, and strategic projects. You will also play a key role in supporting the business through periods of change, ensuring that our people are at the heart of everything we do.

How you'll make an impact

• Stakeholder Management: Build strong relationships with managers and employees by providing expert HR advice, coaching, and mentoring to enhance people management capabilities.
• Case Management: Manage employee relations cases, ensuring compliance with policies and employment law, and escalating complex cases as needed.
• Restructuring and Office Relocations: Support restructuring, office closures, and relocations by managing consultation processes, documentation, and employee transitions.
• Acquisitions: Collaborate with HR Business Partners on acquisitions, ensuring smooth integration, accurate data management, and compliance with HR processes.
• Annual HR Processes: Provide support for performance management, pay reviews, and benefits processes, working closely with Reward and Business Partners.
• Teamwork and Collaboration: Work collaboratively with HR colleagues to ensure seamless service delivery and contribute to continuous improvement projects.
• HR Governance and Compliance: Ensure compliance with HR policies, employment law, and regulatory requirements, including managing background checks and data subject access requests.

About You

• CIPD qualification or equivalent experience, educated to degree level is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of employment law, HR policies, and best practices, including Employee Relations, organisational change, and HR advisory roles.
• Proficiency in Oracle or similar HR systems, and Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced, complex environment while delivering excellent service.
• Strong decision-making skills with a commercial and pragmatic approach.
• Ability to build stakeholder relationships with excellent communication, listening, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organisational and problem-solving abilities.
• Adaptability to changing priorities and demands.
• Eligible to work in the UK.
• Willingness to travel within the UK as required.

Compensation and benefits

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Other benefits include:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
• Critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
• Season ticket loan
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
• Emergency back-up family care
• And many more…

We value inclusion and diversity

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with [e-mail] . If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non‑conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.