Senior HR Advisor in London

As a Senior HR Advisor, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting our Enterprise Solutions Division by delivering high‑quality, commercially focused HR solutions. This is your opportunity to join a global leader in insurance, risk management, and consulting services, where your passion meets purpose, and your ideas help shape the future.

In this role, you’ll work closely with the HR Business Partner and Senior HR Advisor to provide expert advice and support to managers and employees. You’ll manage complex employee relations cases, coach managers to build their people management skills, and ensure HR best practices are embedded across the division.

How you'll make an impact:

• Acting as a trusted advisor to managers, providing guidance on policies, legislation, and risk.
• Managing employee relations cases, including absence, disciplinaries, grievances, performance issues, and sickness.
• Supporting organisational change initiatives, such as restructuring, office relocations, and closures.
• Delivering key annual HR processes, including performance management and pay reviews.
• Collaborating with colleagues to continuously improve HR services and processes.

About You:

• A CIPD qualification or equivalent experience.
• A strong understanding of employment law, HR policies, and best practices.
• Experience managing employee relations cases, including conduct, grievance, capability, absence, and organisational change.
• Excellent communication and coaching skills to build strong relationships with stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and HR systems such as Oracle.
• A proactive, empathetic, and problem‑solving mindset, with a commitment to ethics and integrity.
• Right to work in the UK.

Compensation and benefits:

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits. Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days.
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to.
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top‑up to 10x.
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up.
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance.

Other benefits include:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year.
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount.
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan.
• Critical illness cover.
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally.
• Season ticket loan.
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase.
• Emergency back‑up family care.
• And many more…

We value inclusion and diversity. Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work. Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long‑term health conditions or disabilities. We understand that applicants may have disabilities; if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less‑favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, colour, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non‑conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer‑employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.