HR Generalist / HR Manager

The HR Generalist / HR Manager role focuses on providing day to day support and advice to employees, managers and directors on a wide range of HR topics for Head Office in Basingstoke. To include onboarding, recruitment, ER, coaching and upskilling Line Managers on HR policies, HR projects, and much more. You will be able to offer a strong hands-on operational HR Generalist profile to date, and be happy working at pace. This role offers hybrid working.

Client Details

Our client is a well-established international business, one of the global leaders in their specialist field.

Description

The HR Generalist / HR Manager is pivotal in helping the organisation achieve its stretching goals. The role focuses on providing day to day support and advice to employees, managers and directors on a wide range of HR topics for Head Office. The HR Manager will take responsibility for key HR activities such as introduction and onboarding of new starters, exit interviews, and absence management. You will support the Senior HR Manager in the implementation of HR strategy and initiatives across Head Office.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide timely and accurate advice to managers and employees with regards to Company policy to support the effective management of employees.
• Providing coaching to line managers on the interpretation of Company policy providing best practice, commercial solutions. Represent HR at employee relations meetings, producing effective minutes. For example, disciplinary, grievances and capability. Coaching managers on a variety of topics.
• Proactive management of sickness/absence cases, flagging proactively up to Senior HRM absence cases. Monitor Bradford Factor - liaise with managers for timely return of Self cert/RTW forms. Update spreadsheet for Payroll. Arrange Occupational Health referrals as appropriate.
• Coordination of new starters: support managers with interviews and create job offer obtaining all relevant information. Create new personnel files, obtaining employee references.
• Manage maternity, paternity and flex working cases. Walk through policy and prepare letters confirming entitlement.
• To be responsible for the effective on-boarding and orientation of all new starters excluding placement students. Ensure the induction is regularly reviewed for completeness, relevance and accuracy of content, making changes as required.
• Deliver company induction and prepare induction packs.
• Production of long service awards: ordering gift, producing certification and letters.
• To provide project support to the Senior HR Managers to ensure the effective implementation of HR initiatives in the UK.
• HR projects - upcoming projects you could get involved in include:
• Harmonisation of T&Cs across support/central functions.
• Job evaluation work /job grading.
• Integration of Workday, SAP and ADP (as they don't currently talk to each other).

Profile

To apply for the role of HR Generalist / HR Manager, your profile will closely match the following:

• Strong experience in a busy generalist HR role.
• Loves the pace of a hands-on operational HR role.
• Ideally, educated to level 7 CIPD (or equivalent).
• Up to date knowledge of UK employment legislation.
• Solid generalist experience covering the employee lifecycle.
• Ideally has exposure to improving HR processes, policies and procedures.
• Buys into continuous improvement/knows what good looks like.
• Impeccable attention to detail.
• Used to working in a complex/matrixed structure.
• Ability to be able to communicate with different levels of personnel, building relationships.
• Trustworthy and reliable.
• Good level of IT skills, including Microsoft packages and Workday/SAP is desirable.

This role is based in Basingstoke and offers hybrid working.

Job Offer

This role comes with the company benefits package.