Job Details

HR Advisor

Sector:HR & Training

Region : South East England

Location: Essex

Salary: £30,000 - £35,000

Job Ref.: GIBB2207

Job Information

Cameron James Professional Recruitment are working with an International transport company who are looking for a HR Advisor to provide a professional, effective and robust HR generalist service to managers and staff across 12 sites within the UK ensuring the business has the skills, culture, focus, structure and communication channels in place to enable people to deliver the business strategy.
The role proactively manages the complete Employee Lifecycle encompassing recruitment, selection and on-boarding, technical expertise in employment law, conflict resolution, performance management, absence management and supporting talent and succession planning.

Ressponsibilities:
• Policy and Document Development: In line with Group HR Policies, develop appropriate HR processes for the UK when necessary and review current policies in line with legislation changes.
• Training and Development: Working with the Inchcape Marine Academy (IMA) to assess UK training needs, planning, implementing and evaluating training programmes as required in conjunction with the IMA, working to ensure an effective response to individual and departmental needs for learning while ensuring equitable distribution of opportunities.
• Performance Management: Working with the Group HR Manager to drive the performance management process, supporting managers in recognising high performance and tackling under-performers fairly and effectively.
• Delivering training to managers on Performance Management.
• Manage and monitor the annual salary and bonus process and support the necessary administration thereafter.
• Assist with the roll out the analysis of reward using market rate assessment process to ensure fairness.
• Working with Group HR Manager to support the UK talent & succession pipeline in order to promote a culture of high-performance characterised by progressive individual career growth, the retention of key talent and minimal staff turnover.
• Support the staffing plan for individual business units, liaising with recruiters, agreeing terms, developing job descriptions and undertaking bench marking activities.
• Support TUPE, Mergers & Acquisitions and Redundancy ensuring all due diligence activities are undertaken and comply with legislation.
• Maintaining open communication lines between the management and employees by providing platforms to address employee grievances and conflict resolution and harmonise differences within the organisation with emphasis on confidentiality.
• Ensure effective use of HR Systems, Workday and ADP Freedom, to ensure compliance and data integrity.
• Ensuring that an appropriate assessment of health, safety, security and environment (HSSE) risk is included as part of work planning.

Person Specification:
• Decision Making Knowledge, Experience and Skills
• Significant HR generalist experience with a strong track record in delivering results
• Excellent understanding of employment legislation and compensation and benefits techniques
• Solid experience of Payroll and Pensions Management
• Experience of managing visa applications and Tier 2 sponsorship
• Experience of using HR Information Systems
• Experienced people manager able to demonstrate successful delivery of projects
• Excellent IT skills including use of Excel, Word and Outlook
• Knowledge of on-boarding overseas employees
• Proven ability in developing relationships in a multicultural environment
• Responsive to a changeable environment with a flexible and pragmatic approach
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Excellent organisational skills and an ability to work to deadlines
• CIPD qualified or comparable experience