Senior HR Advisor

Senior HR Advisor Huddersfield (Hybrid)
£40,000 £43,000 DOE Full-time, Permanent

Morson are proud to be partnering with a leading national business headquartered in Huddersfield, seeking a Senior HR Advisor to join their small but dynamic HR team.

Reporting to the HR Director, you ll play a key role in delivering HR best practice across seven UK sites, deputising for the HR Director when required, and line managing the HR Assistant.

This is a true generalist role, covering the full employee lifecycle and supporting projects such as employee engagement, wellbeing, HR system implementation, and benefits management.

Working hours: 8:30 5:00 or 9:00 5:30
Hybrid: Office-based Monday, Tuesday & Thursday

• Provide proactive HR support and guidance to managers and employees.

• Manage day-to-day HR operations, including employee relations, absence, and performance management.

• Oversee recruitment processes, including ATS management, job postings, and onboarding.

• Lead and support HR projects to improve engagement, efficiency, and systems.

• Manage and review employee benefits, pay reviews, and HR data reporting.

• Line manage and develop the HR Assistant.

• Proven generalist HR experience, including case management and employee relations.

• Strong working knowledge of employment law and HR best practice.

• Confident communicator with excellent written and analytical skills.

• Experience mentoring or managing a team member.

• CIPD qualified (or equivalent).

• Proficient with HR systems (Cezanne experience desirable).

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced HR professional looking to take the next step in their career, with exposure to both operational and strategic HR initiatives.

General HR Activity
• Managing a busy workload with competing demands.
• Delivering excellent customer service with many end users.
• Dealing with day-to-day HR operations (including family leave, changes to T&Cs and employee lifecycle) with support from the HR Assistant, escalating where necessary.
• Providing support, advice and coaching on all people rated issues ensuring operational excellence.
• Dealing with escalated queries from the central HR Inbox.

Employee Relations
• Tackling sensitive employee relations issues, including capability management, disciplinaries, appeals and absence management with confidence and care.
• Advising the business on appropriate solutions to deal with performance management related issues in line with employment law and Company policy.

Recruitment
• Management of the new recruitment ATS system.
• Adding jobs to the ATS and job boards where requested.
• Creating adverts for hiring managers.
• Proving training on the ATS to line managers
• Monitoring usage and initiating any system improvements.
• New starter onboarding and induction related activity

Pay & Reward
• Support the HR team with the annual pay and bonus review.
• Reviewing existing benefits to ensure they are still fit for purpose and promoting internally.
• Identifying opportunities to introduce new financial and non-financial benefits for employees.
• Managing the monthly benefit administration and annual benefit enrolment windows.

Other
• Day to day supervision of the HR Assistant.
• Developing and delivering business and HR related projects and initiatives that improve efficiency and engagement.
• Support the ongoing implementation of our HRIS system modules and functionality.
• Contribute to policy development and implementation and review.
• Prepare and analyse HR data and contribute to monthly management information reports/board reports/annual surveys.
• Working with HR Director of optimising the HRIS and refining the current operational HR processes for the full employee life cycle.

Job Knowledge, Skills & Experience
• Strong generalist HR experience including managing your own case work.
• Experience of managing a more junior colleague.
• Up to date knowledge of best practice and employment law.
• Knowledge and practical experience of advising managers on employee relations issues.
• Good numeracy and literacy skills to analyse HRMI.
• A high standard of written communication for drafting employee correspondence, outcome letters and action plans.
• Experience of introducing efficiencies in working practices.
• Proficient in the use of all Microsoft Office packages.
• Competent user of HR management information systems with the ability to quickly and effectively learn new systems (Cezanne an advantage).
• Experience of leading and supporting on HR initiatives and small projects.
• Experience of working in a similar industry (professional services or partnership) where there are multi-site stakeholders and employees.
• Professional HR qualification (CIPD/SHRM or other).
• Excellent attention to detail and thorough.

Personal Qualities
• You will have a strong work ethic, a sense of urgency and you are able to work flexibly to meet the demands of the role during peak periods.
• You are keen to develop your own knowledge and skill set.
• Highly organised and detail orientated.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact effectively with multiple levels of stakeholders and diverse employee groups.
• Able to manage multiple projects/priorities with strong time management skills.
• The ability to learn quickly and work in a fast-paced environment where priorities may rapidly change.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive and other duties within the practice may be required. Job descriptions do not form part of the contract of employment. Job descriptions will be reviewed annually and when necessary, in accordance with organisational needs and any major changes will be discussed with the post holder.