Senior HR Consultant

Description

• Collaborate with Finance and Reward to ensure accurate workforce planning and budgeting.
• Analyse absence, engagement and other people-related data to identify trends and provide insights to senior leadership.
• Share Culture Audit and survey insights, contributing to engagement and retention strategies.
• Partner with Reward to deliver salary review, bonus cycles, equal pay audits and salary benchmarking.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with line managers and employees, ensuring consistent communication and advice.
• Support Talent Acquisition with recruitment approvals and reward recommendations.
• Support secondments and international assignment processes.
• Plan and facilitate People Consultancy discussions, producing high-quality insight reports.
• Act as a Level 1 SMS user and manage sponsorship activity, including issuing certificates of sponsorship.
• Manage complex employee relations cases, including formal absence management and occupational health referrals.
• Act as the first point of contact for EDI issues within your business areas; work closely with EDI champions and working groups.
• Support twice-yearly promotion cycles, including moderation and bias-interrupter activity.
• Act as a trusted advisor to Discipline Directors, Discipline Leads and Unit Leads on operational and strategic HR matters.
• Deputise for the Lead HR Consultant in discipline-specific meetings, including preparation for data and discipline reviews.

Requirements

• Collaborative, adaptable and confident managing varied priorities, deputising when needed, and supporting EDI and engagement activity.
• Strong HR knowledge, including UK employment law, best practice, complex ER case management and performance/promotion processes.
• Analytical and data-driven, able to interpret trends and support reward cycles (salary review, bonus).
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.
• CIPD Level 3/5 (or equivalent) or working towards; degree desirable.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to build trusted senior relationships and present clear, concise insights.

Benefits

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package including, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection.
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
• 10% Car allowance.
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities. A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance