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HR, Reward, People, Talent Acquisition & L&D Recruitment Specialist - Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace.

Our Global Professional Services client is looking for a Senior HR Advisor to act as a key partner to business leaders, delivering strategic and operational HR support across multiple teams.

This role can be based in Manchester or Leeds - Hybrid and is a 12-month FTC.

Working closely with the Resourcing team, HR Managers, and Centres of Excellence, you’ll ensure a seamless employee experience from onboarding through to performance and development.

The role is varied and in supporting the achievement of the firm's growth and development plans you will get involved in a number of ad hoc projects within the Central HR team on a regular basis, supporting colleagues in other locations or teams as needed.

You will be aligned to a fee earning practice area where you will use your business partnering abilities to foster strong working relationships with the teams you work with. You will play a key role in supporting them day to day with operational HR tasks and work together to drive forward their strategic priorities.

As a Senior HR Advisor, your responsibilities will include:

BUSINESS PARTNERING

• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders, acting as a trusted HR Advisor
• Collaborate with business leaders to align HR initiatives with strategic goals, driving engagement, performance, and retention
• Identify and implement HR process improvements to support business objectives

RESOURCING

• Support HR Managers & Resourcing team in delivering timely and cost-effective staffing solutions
• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process, from vacancy approval to onboarding
• Liaise with Central HR Admin on staff changes and reporting; support secondments and leaver processes, including exit interviews

EMPLOYEE RELATIONS

• Advise line managers on employee relations, disciplinary, grievance, absence, and benefit matters, ensuring timely documentation and compliance
• Manage maternity, shared parental leave, flexible working requests, and associated employee lifecycle events

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

• Support performance reviews, promotion processes, salary reviews, and training needs identification across the practice group
• Provide consistent performance management support to HR and line managers

To be a successful Senior HR Advisor, you'll require proven experience in a proactive, business partnering HR role with generalist responsibilities.

Additionally, you'll need:

• Evidence of taking a proactive and lead role within a HR team
• Have the ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision
• A demonstrable ability to influence at senior levels; excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A clear ability to manage a complex and changing work-load, flexibly and efficiently

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Human Resources

• Industries

  Law Practice and Business Consulting and Services

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