Senior Regional HR Advisor

Salary: £48,000 – £60,000 per year

Interim Senior Regional HR Advisor – Logistics/Supply Chain

Contract: 9-12 months

Location: Home based and regionally East Anglia

Salary: £48,000 – £60,000 + car allowance £5,700 + benefits

The Senior HR Advisor implements HR solutions that enable the business to successfully achieve its objectives. Partnering with the Supply Chain, Transport and Sales teams you will consult, execute and monitor HR strategies and programs, including performance management, talent management, workforce planning, development, and succession planning. The Senior HR Officer works closely with the broader HR team to deliver high quality solutions and provides guidance and coaching to other HR staff and regional operational and sales teams. You will also be responsible for delivering nationwide projects around standardisation of policy and process.

Provides human resources leadership, coaching, guidance and consultancy to a regional leadership team. Responsible for implementing and operationalising human resources policies and activities, including, but not limited to, guidance on employee relations, Company policies and philosophies, recruitment, performance management, compensation, organisational change, development and human resources systems.

The role:

Consults with business leaders to diagnose current and future HR needs and develop a strategy for resolution.

Collaborates with the HR team to implement and monitor HR solutions, strategy and Company branding.

Leads and supports the implementation of HR strategies, objectives and processes that are fully aligned with the overall function/business strategy and the HR strategy.

Works with the function/business on people/workforce strategies, helping develop high potential talent and supporting a high performance culture.

Consult with business leaders to identify future leadership talent building out both development and succession plans.

Responsible for ensuring business relevance of HR services offered, serving as the lead HR for the business/function or region

Able to balance “lead” role/face of HR with the business/function while at the same time ensuring delivering direct engagement and support

Directly supports the business/function leader(s) with advice and coaching, being seen as a “trusted advisor” specifically being able to objectively assess, influence and push back when necessary

Brings dashboards and metrics to the conversation and applies data judgment to drive recommendations.

Ultimately responsible to the business for quality and performance of all HR services provided.

Able to run and analyse reports, building out a strategy and/or approach to proactively assist business leaders.

Partners with leaders on employee relation issues, including recommendations for investigations, progressive discipline, performance improvement plans and terminations.

Regular, in-person attendance and participation in designated department meetings (DRM, Leadership) as evidenced by being considered an integral part of the team.

Ensures compliance on Company policies operating within the UK’s legal framework.

Provides coaching and development to department leaders.

Drive culture to integrate Company values in all aspects of the business.

Participates as a strategic member of the regional operations team, ensures consistent application of the human resources plan with the operational business plan

Collaborates with operations leadership to anticipate and plan for long term human resources needs and trends

Receives employee relations complaints, researches and conducts necessary investigations, secures appropriate documentation and makes recommendations to resolve the complaints based on the investigation findings.

Advises Operations Managers regarding disciplinary actions and terminations, reviews reasoning and documentation, makes recommendations for appropriate actions accordingly

Maintains broad generalist human resources knowledge, interprets laws and regulations and ensures consistency when applying them to Company issues

Develops and creates presentations and/or training materials for human resources topics.

Regularly visits all sites in designated region

Completes other duties, including special projects, as assigned by Management

The person:

CIPD L5 or L7 qualified

Proven HR generalist experience ideally in a regional role

Coaching and development skills

Able to build and sustain strong relationships with peers and client business leaders.

Able to manage highly sensitive matters whilst maintaining confidentiality and objectivity.

Strong teamworking skills

Effective written and verbal communication skills.

High personal standards of integrity.

Project management skills.

Leads and delivers results through others.

Diagnostic and problem solving skills

Demonstrated expertise with Word, Excel, and other MS Office suite applications

Demonstrated knowledge of HRIS system, preferably SAP

Excellent communication skills and the ability to research and resolve issues

Good understanding of intra-department functions and operations

Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Solid influencing skills

Demonstrated ability to coach and counsel employees

Ability to maintain confidentiality with findings, employee data, and Company information

Ability to work with people having diverse requirements

Ability to exercise common sense judgment in difficult situations

To apply please email your CV, or call for more details