PureGym is the No.1 gym operator in the UK, and the 4th largest gym operator worldwide. With 600+ gyms and over 2 million members across the UK, Europe & US, we are the gym where Everybody is Welcome. We champion diversity and are committed to providing a workplace where everyone feelsfree to be. We offer:

• Gym membership for you + 1
• A truly flexible working culture
• Personal private healthcare
• Life insurance
• Company pension contribution
• Holiday purchase scheme up to an additional week.
• Enhanced maternity pay

The Role

Location: Leeds. Hybrid working (2 days per week at the office)
Type: Full Time
Contract type: Permanent

Applications close on Thursday 7 th August. Interviews are expected to commence on Thursday 21 st August in person.

We are looking for an ER Specialist to join the People Team, based in Leeds! The ER Specialist is responsible for providing expert and commercial advisory support to all our UK Gym Operations Managers. Reporting to the Head of People and joining two other ER Specialists, you can expect to be working at pace on complex casework. This role is hands-on and people-focused, allowing you to dedicate your time to resolving employee matters and identifying trends and themes to continuously improve our manager capability and HR processes.

Key duties will include:

• Supporting all line managers to build confidence and competence in dealing with any people related challenges within their team, whilst assessing risk and escalating cases to the Head of People / Divisional People Business Partners quickly.
• Identifying themes and trends with cases, having confidence to present them to the rest of the team and make recommendations to drive improvement to our policies and people management practices.
• Carrying out key activity such as manager induction check ins, prompts about probation reviews and exit interviews to gain valuable insight on how it feels to work for PureGym and suggest improvements.
• Working as a team to share best practice, apply it in a standardised way and constantly challenge the status quo where we should be aiming to achieve more, always applying a continuous improvement mindset.
• Building strong working relationships with the Divisional People Business Partners to ensure communication levels are high and that each division is provided routine insight to drive proactive activity to help reduce the reactive workload.

The Person

• Experienced HR professional with a proven track record of working in a role that provides sound advice on people related matters and queries within a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to produce and analyse reports on key HR metrics.
• Solid understanding of employment law and people management practices.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to adapt their style to different personality types and learning needs and styles whilst influencing to get the right outcome.
• Shows integrity and ethics in all they do including the need to act with confidentiality, discretion and professionalism.
• Meticulously organised with the ability to constantly reassess priorities throughout the day whilst working accurately and showing high attention to detail.
• A team player with a positive can-do attitude.

PureGym is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our company mantra is ‘Everybody Welcome’ and we are dedicated to promoting a diverse and inclusive place to work. From a hiring standpoint, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to ensuring that our PureGym colleagues reflect the diversity of the nation as well as our millions of gym members we serve.

Join us on our mission is to bring high quality, affordable fitness to everyone, everywhere.

PureGym is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our company mantra is ‘Everybody Welcome’ and we are dedicated to promoting a diverse and inclusive place to work.