HR Consultant (Business advisory, Disciplinary cases, HR admin)

OPPORTUNITY
As part of the HR team you will provide subject matter expertise and guidance to people managers on HR issues and will support the delivery of a broad spectrum of HR related operational projects. You will also focus on successful delivery of variety of administrative tasks for organisation management and lifecycle & transaction area.

RESPONSIBILITIES
● Support day to day ER (Employee Relations) issues on site – e.g. discipline, grievance, absence management, change management, restricted workers. Co-operates with local HR Service Operations and ER Manager, ER Senior Consultant, and Engagement Manager to ensure alignment on key ER issues, monitoring of trends in case management, and addressing issues arising.
● Support people managers to understand risks and issues associated with different ER cases.
● Manage and resolve escalated ER related queries, identifying and liaising with other Tier 2 areas and appropriate stakeholders/CoE’s, including Legal and Payroll, to establish risks, implications and propose recommended solutions/course of action. Provide support and learning to other team members as required.
● Support communication and training to people managers on their roles and responsibilities in delivering ER processes.
● Ensure that negotiated local Union Agreements are correctly understood by management and employees. Develop and maintain knowledge base (Mindtouch) on ER policies and programmes, to be used as reference material for complex query resolution.
● Responsible for employee and organisation data integrity including checking data correctness submitted to JLR SK by 3rd parties
● Create and issue all employee contracts for external and internal recruitment, use SF system to support onboarding and manage communication with employees / onboarders where required
● Support inductions of employees from HR administration perspective
● Check supporting documentation for change of personal detail (name, address, bank detail) requests
● Performs administrative tasks related to HR administration, Performance, Reward and Engagement (e.g. preparing amendments to contracts, enrolling employees in benefit schemes, administering recognition programmes and other administrative duties)
● Handles off boarding of employees (e.g. closing data in SAP, preparing required documentation such as termination letters, confirmation of employment, leavers checklist etc…)
● Manages delivery and return of physical record and document image management services according to agreed SLAs and statutory obligations
● Maintains physical employee record (i.e. filing, archiving and purging of physical records)
● People Centre document management
● Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested from time to time

CANDIDATE
Essential:
● Ideally a minimum of 1-2 years’ experience in an HR professional role, ideally a generalist background with operational customer facing experience
● Knowledge and experience of operating in a collective agreement environment; multiple terms and conditions of employment, policies and experience of policy development
● Knowledge and experience of guiding people managers on employee relations cases
● Good knowledge of employment contracts and local policies, including risks and implications
● High level working knowledge of employment law and related practices including TUPE, Redundancy, Consultation requirements and employment contracts
● Competent in all Microsoft Office software
● Relevant degree or equivalent experience preferred
Desirable:
● Experience with employee relations agenda, including operational problem solving with employee representatives and elementary experience in collective negotiations.

Personal Profile
Essential:
● Highly motivated, proactive, enthusiastic and driven
● Self confident, committed and able to operate with minimal supervision
● Demonstrated ability to build strong and effective working relationships at all levels within the organisation
● High level of attention to detail