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HR Advisor

Posted 4 days ago by Hays HR

Summary: You will be joining a busy HR team within the retail sector of a larger organization, addressing a backlog of operational HR activities due to long-term absences. Reporting to an HR Business Partner, you will provide essential HR support in a high-volume, fast-paced environment. Your role will involve managing HR queries, supporting employee relations, and ensuring operational continuity. This position offers the opportunity to work in a collaborative team focused on continuous improvement and development.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Managing a central HR mailbox, triaging incoming queries and either resolving, delegating or escalating as appropriate
  • Providing support on low-level ER cases
  • Providing guidance to managers on a range of HR matters
  • Confidently handling more complex or sensitive conversations and appropriately challenging stakeholders where required
  • Identifying which cases require escalation
  • Supporting the wider HR function to ensure operational continuity

Key Skills:

  • Confidence in managing challenging conversations with managers and providing constructive pushback where necessary
  • Experience working in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong judgement and ability to prioritise and escalate appropriately
  • Excellent organisational and communication skills
  • A proactive and resilient approach
  • Experience in a generalist role

Salary (Rate): £20.00 Hourly

City: Oxford

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: HR

Detailed Description From Employer:

Your new role
You will be joining a busy and supportive HR team within the retail arm of a wider organisation, during a period of increased workload and ongoing transformation. Due to a number of long-term absences within the team, there is currently a backlog of operational HR activity.
Reporting into an HR Business Partner and working closely with wider HR colleagues, you will play a key role in providing effective HR support across a high-volume, fast-paced environment.
Key responsibilities

  • Managing a central HR mailbox, triaging incoming queries and either resolving, delegating or escalating as appropriate
  • Providing support on low-level ER cases.
  • Providing guidance to managers on a range of HR matters
  • Confidently handling more complex or sensitive conversations and appropriately challenging stakeholders where required
  • Identifying which cases require escalation
  • Supporting the wider HR function to ensure operational continuity

What you'll need to succeed

  • Confidence in managing challenging conversations with managers and providing constructive pushback where necessary
  • Experience working in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong judgement and ability to prioritise and escalate appropriately
  • Excellent organisational and communication skills
  • A proactive and resilient approach
  • Experience in a generalist role

Desirable:

  • Experience within the public sector or charity sector

What you'll get in return

  • Flexible, predominantly home-based working (with monthly team meetings)
  • 20- 25 per hour
  • Opportunity to gain deeper exposure to employee relations within a supportive structure
  • Involvement in an evolving HR function undergoing positive change and transformation
  • A collaborative team environment focused on continuous improvement and development

What you need to do now

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Rate:
£0/year
Location:
Oxford
IR35 Status:
Undetermined
Remote Status:
Hybrid
Industry:
HR
Seniority Level:
Not Specified

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