Senior People Advisor in Birmingham

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We’re looking for an experienced and commercially minded Senior People Advisor to join our People team, supporting leaders across our R&D and wider business functions.

This is a great opportunity to join a collaborative and supportive People team, where you’ll play a key role in strengthening manager capability, improving people practices, and supporting a broad range of employee relations matters.

You’ll work closely with business leaders to provide practical advice across performance management, disciplinary and grievance matters, absence management, consultations, and organisational change activity.

What You Will Do

• Managing a varied employee relations caseload across performance, disciplinary, grievance, sickness absence, flexible working, and wellbeing matters
• Coaching and supporting managers through people processes and employment law considerations
• Supporting organisational change activity
• Building manager capability through pragmatic guidance and challenge where appropriate
• Ensuring decisions are evidence-based, appropriately documented, and aligned to policy and best practice
• Partnering with People Business Partners and Centres of Excellence across the wider People function
• Supporting continuous improvement initiatives and contributing to policy development and organisational design projects

What You Will Have

We’re looking for someone who combines strong employment law knowledge with excellent stakeholder management and coaching capability.

You’ll ideally bring:

• Experience in a People Advisor or Senior People Advisor role
• Strong employee relations experience including disciplinary, grievance, performance management, and sickness absence cases
• Experience supporting managers in a fast-paced, matrixed organisation
• Confidence coaching and influencing stakeholders at different levels
• Good understanding of UK employment law and HR best practice
• Experience working alongside occupational health providers and supporting complex absence cases
• Ability to balance competing priorities and manage a varied workload independently
• A proactive and curious approach, with the confidence to challenge constructively and ask the right questions
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality, documentation, and evidence-based decision making

Experience within technology, professional services, legal, or other fast-paced commercial environments would be advantageous.

What We Do For You

Wellbeing that means something

• 26 days’ holiday + bank holidays (and the option to buy more) plus 1 paid volunteering day every year
• Exceptional family leave, 26 weeks fully paid maternity/adoption, 4 weeks fully paid paternity, 22 weeks fully paid shared parental leave, plus 5 days paid bereavement leave
• Robust sick pay of up to 13 weeks full pay + 13 weeks half pay
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support
• Private medical insurance for everyone, no medical-history exclusions

Financial benefits that have your back

• Performance-based rewards tailored to your role, from company-wide bonuses to OTE and commission structures
• Income protection: up to 75% salary for 5 years if you ever need it

Grow your career with us

• SkillsHub learning platform with leadership pathways, future-manager training, and a huge online library
• Access to external training and apprenticeships

Making a Difference

• MatchIt!Fundraise for a cause close to your heart and OneAdvanced will match part of the funding
• Pennies from Heavendonate the pennies from your pay check to help make a difference without lifting a finger

Plus plenty other flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle on our RewardHub, including:

• ULEV car scheme with 1,000+ models
• Dental insurance, Health Cash Plan, Critical Illness Cover, Partner Life Cover

Who We Are

At OneAdvanced, we are at the forefront of delivering sector-focused technology solutions that simplify complexity, drive meaningful progress, and help build a fairer, more inclusive society.

We’re much more than a software company. We deliver SaaS workflow applications and IT services that power organisations across Education, Government, Healthcare, Legal, Manufacturing, Housing, Retail, and more.

OneAdvanced is one of the UK’s largest business software and services companies. Based in Birmingham (The Mailbox), operating across the UK, Ireland, India, and Australia.

Our secure, scalable platform, including OneAdvanced AI, our private AI service for UK organisations, powers connectivity and innovation across critical sectors. Alongside our software are our IT services, including hosting, managed services, and application modernisation.

We strive to create an inclusive workplace that drives innovation and collaboration, championing diverse perspectives and ideas. Our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy is embedded in everything we do, guiding us to create meaningful impact for our people, our customers and the planet.

Proud to be recognised in the Financial Times’ Best Employers 2026 list for the second-year running, an independent and data led ranking based on employee feedback. Join us and become part of a team that’s powering the world of work and making a real difference.

Learn more at www.oneadvanced.com