HR Advisor in Bracknell

Location: Hybrid - 3 days Bracknell, 2 days from home

Working Hours: 37.5 hours a week

Salary: Competitive

We’re Citation Group, a group of businesses on a mission to make life easier for small and medium-sized companies. We pride ourselves on creating a workplace where everyone is valued, supported, and encouraged to bring their best selves to work. We’re known for our supportive culture and our commitment to helping clients stay “ready for anything.” If you’re a team player who thrives in a fast‑paced environment, we want to hear from you!

The role: Our whole reason for being is to attract, retain and develop great people. We know that you sustainably raise performance through engagement and that leadership and culture is key to this. We’re looking for a commercial HR generalist to play an integral role in our team and business. You will be working closely with Group functions to deliver the People Plan and their basic HR needs, as well as help them be their best whilst driving change, supporting rapid business growth and a variety of ambitious and exciting projects, all while making sure our culture is nurtured and developed. It’s a true generalist position!

• Work closely with assigned areas of the business to drive the People Plan, identify, and deliver key HR initiatives.
• Provide HR support for all matters in your business area, including performance management, training and development, ER issues, including grievances, disciplinaries, capability, redundancy, long‑term sick, disputes, assist with TUPE, colleague well‑being, including maternity/paternity.
• Project work – we’re constantly growing and evolving so there’ll be plenty to get stuck into.
• Stats – understanding our people numbers helps us perform better.
• Rewards & remuneration — from helping develop our benefits to doing the admin and liaising with payroll, you’ll be involved.
• Support with embedding new acquisitions into the Citation Group.
• Admin – it needs to be done right and strong eye for detail, so we all have a part to play.
• Compliance/business protection – you know how important this is and will make it integral to the way we work.
• Colleague engagement – everything we do is aimed at protecting and building our high‑performance culture and our great colleague engagement scores.
• Internal Comms – as a team, we own the internal Comms – it’s the voice of our culture, a glue that helps bind us and has never been more important.
• L&D – we like to keep it relevant, quick and easy to access, be prepared to get involved in supporting the delivery of existing programmes and help to create new material.

About you: It’s fast‑paced and always changing, so you need to be up for the challenge, always ready to adapt and get stuck in. Agile with a growth mindset, you will really care about our business. You get that you are a role model for and a custodian of our culture and will always put your best self forward. It’s all about the people in Citation, so you’ll need to demonstrate a wide range of influencing and communication skills. With high emotional intelligence and sound commercial acumen, people will want to come to you, not just because of your expertise, but because you are a great person to work with. We’re always growing and changing so you’ll need to demonstrate how you positively embrace change personally and drive change successfully within your business. Whilst it’s all about the people, we’re not pink and fluffy – you’ll need to demonstrate your commercial edge too. We’ve got a coaching style with our managers; we work together to help find the best solutions, so you’ll need to show us your coaching and problem‑solving skills. You’ll have experience of dealing with a wide range of ER issues and feel comfortable dealing with issues from the basics to complex issues. You’re always learning and developing – you might not have all the answers yet and you’re willing to learn and give it a try. We’re always looking for ways to improve our processes to create a better experience for colleagues so you’ll show initiative and come up with new ideas on how we can do this.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Experience or exposure to large change projects (could include restructures or business integrations).
• Experience of writing and delivering training.
• Experience in ESG topics such as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion & Carbon Emissions.
• Experience working at pace in a changing environment.

Here’s a taste of the perks we roll out for our extraordinary team members:

• 25 Days of Holiday + Bank Holidays: Enjoy 25 days of holiday, plus bank holidays.
• Birthday Bliss: Enjoy a day off on your birthday.
• Post‑Wedding Bliss: Extra weeks of holiday for newlyweds.

Join us at Citation, where success comes with unbeatable perks and a culture that truly celebrates your achievements!