HR Operations Partner

HR Operations Partner

Salary: up to £37,000 per annum, dependent on experience
Location: Hybrid Yeovil office base with travel to client sites, with flexibility over time

Are you an experienced HR professional, HR Manager or HR Advisor and ready to take the next step in your career?

This role is not just about more responsibility, it s about applying sound judgement, real people management experience and commercial thinking to support our SME clients, while developing into an HR Business Partner within a supportive consultancy setting.

You do not need prior consultancy experience to succeed in this role, but we are looking for someone with strong, lived HR and people management experience who wants to broaden how they apply those skills, with the support, mentoring and structure to grow into consultancy and partnering over time.

At Auxilium HR Solutions, we are growing our A-Team and are looking for an HR Operations Partner who wants to move beyond a traditional advisory role and start building a career in HR consultancy and partnering. If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you.

The opportunity

This is an ideal role for someone with a solid foundation in HR and employee relations, ideally gained in an operational or HR management role, who is ready to broaden their experience across HR operations, recruitment, training and management coaching, while working closely with experienced HR Business Partner Consultants.

The role requires sound judgement and the ability to think beyond process alone. You ll often be supporting clients in real time, with incomplete information, competing priorities and pressure to act quickly. Knowing when to formalise, when to pause, when to ask the right questions and when to escalate for support is a critical part of the role.

You will work with a portfolio of SME clients as an extension of their management teams, providing practical, commercial and human HR support that helps their businesses grow. You will not be left to figure things out alone as you ll be supported, coached and mentored by experienced HR professionals who genuinely want to see you succeed.

This role is very much about development and progression. As your confidence, capability and client relationships grow, so will your scope, autonomy and earning potential.

Why join a small consultancy like Auxilium?

Working in a smaller business means:

• You are known, trusted and listened to,
• You have direct access to decision makers,
• You gain exposure to a wide variety of clients and situations,
• Your ideas, contribution and value genuinely matter,
• You are supported as a person, not just a job title.

Working in a consultancy environment also requires a high level of personal ownership and professionalism. We operate with trust, flexibility and a strong focus on outcomes rather than rigid structures. This role will suit someone who takes pride in seeing work through, managing priorities and working collaboratively with colleagues and clients to achieve the right result.

We are proud to take a real, human approach to HR. We focus on enabling people and businesses to move forward, not putting unnecessary barriers in the way. We do not hide behind policy or jargon. We work in partnership with our clients, their leadership teams and their employees to deliver practical, ethical and commercially sound solutions.

What you will be doing

As an HR Operations Partner, your role will include:

• Providing day-to-day HR and employee relations advice to client businesses, with support and escalation to HR Business Partner Consultants where required,
• Supporting managers within client businesses with employee relations matters including absence, conduct, capability, performance and grievance processes,
• Working alongside HR Business Partner Consultants to deliver broader HR projects, change initiatives and organisational development work,
• Supporting recruitment activity for clients, from attraction through to selection,
• Contributing to training delivery on an occasional basis, with support and development provided if this is an area you want to grow into,
• Helping develop and implement practical HR policies, processes and people solutions aligned to business objectives,
• Building trusted relationships with clients and becoming a valued part of their extended management teams.

About you

This role would suit someone who:

• Has proven experience in an HR Advisor, HR Manager or standalone HR role within an SME or operational environment. You will be comfortable dealing with live issues, asking the right questions under pressure recognising risk and understands when to escalate for support,
• Is confident working with managers and building professional relationships,
• Uses professional judgement rather than rigid process, and is able to adapt advice to the realities of different organisations, sectors and situations,
• Is curious, commercially minded and keen to broaden their HR exposure,
• You will naturally look beyond the immediate issue to consider root causes and opportunities for longer-term improvement, such as training, onboarding or management capability,
• Has a good working knowledge of Microsoft 365 and is interested in emerging technology including AI and automation to support our own and our client businesses work efficiently,
• Is open to getting involved in training delivery or developing this skill,
• Wants to move into HR consultancy and partnering over time,
• Values working as part of a close, collaborative team,
• Takes pride in their work and approaches the role with a sense of ownership, flexibility and commitment, focusing on outcomes rather than rigid working patterns.

CIPD Level 3 or above would be advantageous, with Level 5 or working towards it being ideal.

Working pattern and flexibility

You will be based in our Yeovil office initially, this is important to ensure you receive the right level of coaching, support and structure. As you become established and confident in the role, there will be flexibility for the right individual.

As a consultancy, we operate with trust and professionalism. This role suits someone who values flexibility, takes ownership of their workload, is thorough and diligent and understands that supporting clients sometimes requires adaptability, balanced with sensible boundaries, which can take us beyond the 9-5 on occasions.

A full UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle are required due to client visits, as we have a preference for delivering our services face to face an on our client sites as much as possible.

What we offer

Starting salary up to £37,000 per annum, dependent on experience, qualification and what you can bring to our business,

Clear development and progression opportunities,

30 days holiday including bank holidays,

Workplace pension,

WPA Health Cash Plan with EAP and Specsavers corporate eyecare scheme,

CIPD membership subscription funded,

Powerful AI enabled Laptop and Company smartphone,

Modern office space with standing desk and generous Company funded office refreshments,

Generous expenses and milage rates for business travel,

Free onsite parking at our Yeovil office,

A genuinely supportive, sociable and experienced team environment.

This role is perfect for someone who has already achieved a sound base of HR knowledge and is now looking for a varied role, working with a great team who will support, encourage and nurture your career growth and potential. If that s you, we want to hear from you.