Senior HR Consultant

Senior HR Consultant

Location: Oxford / Oxfordshire

Salary: £50,000 per annum, depending on experience

Working pattern: Hybrid / flexible, with regular travel to client sites

Go Beyond HR with SYLO

Are you an experienced HR professional who enjoys variety, building trusted relationships and solving real business challenges?

SYLO Beyond HR is looking for a Senior HR Consultant to join our growing consultancy team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to move beyond traditional HR and work as a genuine strategic partner to a diverse portfolio of clients. Established in 2010, SYLO is a team of 20+ professionals supporting SMEs, national and international organisations across a wide range of sectors. We pride ourselves on providing practical, commercially minded HR advice that makes a real difference. We don't just provide advice and walk away - we become an extension of our clients' teams.

About the role

As a Senior HR Consultant, you'll manage your own portfolio of clients, providing a combination of strategic and hands-on HR support. You'll work directly with business owners, senior leaders and managers, helping them navigate everything from day-to-day people issues to complex organisational change.

Your work will include:

• Providing expert HR advice across the full employee lifecycle.
• Managing complex employee relations cases, including disciplinary, grievance, capability and performance matters.
• Advising on redundancy, restructure and TUPE processes.
• Supporting absence management, family-friendly rights and flexible working.
• Conducting HR audits and reviewing policies, processes and compliance.
• Helping clients develop practical people strategies aligned to their business goals.
• Supporting recruitment, onboarding, probation and performance processes.
• Designing and delivering HR and people-focused training.
• Advising on reward, pay and benefits.
• Supporting clients with employment law updates and implementation.
• Delivering a range of HR projects, from policy development to organisational change.
• Acting as a trusted sounding board for business owners and leadership teams.

You'll also contribute to the growth of our client relationships by identifying opportunities to add value, supporting business development and representing SYLO within the local business community.

What we're looking for

We're looking for an experienced HR professional who is confident, commercially aware and genuinely enjoys working with people and businesses. You'll ideally have:

• Strong generalist HR experience, ideally within consultancy, professional services or a multi-client environment.
• Excellent knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.
• Strong experience managing complex employee relations cases.
• Experience with TUPE, redundancy and organisational change.
• Excellent communication, coaching and relationship-building skills.
• Confidence working with business owners, senior leaders and managers.
• The ability to work autonomously while contributing positively to a wider team.
• Excellent organisation, prioritisation and time management skills.
• A practical, solutions-focused and commercially minded approach.
• Experience delivering HR training or supporting leadership development.
• Strong attention to detail and a high level of confidentiality.
• Experience using Microsoft 365, HR systems and CRM platforms.
• The flexibility to travel to client sites across Oxfordshire and the surrounding area.

CIPD qualification or equivalent experience is desirable.

What makes SYLO different?

We believe HR should do more than keep businesses compliant. It should help businesses grow, leaders lead better and people thrive. Our values are at the centre of how we work:

Bold pragmatism Open-mindedness Empathy Boundary-pushing

You'll join a supportive and ambitious team where you'll have the autonomy to use your expertise, the opportunity to develop your career and the variety that comes from working with different businesses, sectors and people challenges.

What we offer

• £55,000 salary, depending on experience
• Hybrid and flexible working
• A varied portfolio of interesting clients
• Regular client-facing and strategic opportunities
• Professional development and progression
• A supportive, experienced consultancy team
• The opportunity to influence and shape a growing business
• A genuinely people-focused and values-led culture

Ready to go Beyond HR?

If you're an experienced HR professional who wants to be trusted to use your judgement, build meaningful client relationships and deliver HR that genuinely adds value, we'd love to hear from you.

Join SYLO Beyond HR and help us shape what great HR consultancy looks like.

Apply now.