Senior HR Advisor

Senior HR Advisor

Nottingham (with some UK travel)

Salary: £37,000 £40,000 plus great benefits

Are you an experienced HR professional who thrives in the thick of employee relations? Do you love coaching line managers, building capability, and being the go-to for trusted, practical HR advice?

At XMA, we re looking for a confident, credible Senior HR Advisor to step into a pivotal role within our HR team, someone who brings energy, resilience and sharp employment law expertise to every conversation.

This is not a sit-back-and-process role. This is hands-on, front-line HR.

You ll be the trusted HR partner to managers across the business, leading on employee relations, driving consistency, and ensuring our structured HR framework is followed with confidence and clarity.

• Managing a broad range of ER cases disciplinaries, grievances, performance, absence with fairness, pace and legal compliance

• Coaching and mentoring line managers to build confidence, capability and consistency in people management

• Acting as the go-to expert on HR policy and UK employment legislation

• Delivering proactive, practical HR advice that balances risk with commercial reality

• Ensuring consistent application of established HR processes aligned to ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and BSI standards

XMA has built a strong, structured HR framework over recent years. Your role? Champion it. Embed it. Make sure managers understand it and follow it.

You ll be:

• Emotionally intelligent and resilient under pressure

• Confident handling sensitive and complex ER cases

• Comfortable challenging constructively

• Solutions-focused, pragmatic and commercially aware

• Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail

• Passionate about raising standards and driving consistency

This role suits someone who enjoys pace, variety and influence and who wants to be recognised as a credible HR expert within the business.

XMA is a leading UK technology company with a strong heritage and ambitious future. We invest in our people, promote from within and offer best-in-class benefits, including private medical insurance, enhanced wellbeing support, generous holiday, ongoing development and a genuinely inclusive culture

You ll be joining a collaborative HR team, reporting into the HR Business Partner, and playing a key role in shaping positive employee experience across the organisation.

If you re an experienced HR Advisor ready to own employee relations, elevate line manager capability and become the trusted HR voice in a growing organisation, we want to hear from you.

Apply now and bring your energy to XMA.