Part-time HR Business Advisor in Daventry

Bertrandt is an independent and international development service provider with long years of automotive expertise. With cross-industry know-how and a holistic understanding of systems and products, we create technological solutions at any stage of the product development process. We deal with a focus on hot topics such as digitalization, e-mobility and autonomous systems, mainly for the automotive, aerospace and mechanical engineering sectors, and consistently facilitate the development of tailored solutions in these areas. Our goal is to accelerate technological progress and make a relevant contribution to a sustainable future.

We are recruiting for a HR Business Advisor for our customer, who has a part-time, 12-month fixed term opportunity to join them at their Parts Distribution Centre based in Daventry, Northants. It’s an exciting time to join the team as they support the business through a period of growth and the ever-changing business challenges facing the distribution centre, and support the HR team to modernise the way they work.

As the HR Business Advisor, you will work in a small friendly HR team to support the distribution centre People Leaders implement strategies to manage approximately 350 employees in largely manual, warehouse roles. Both the hourly and salaried employees are represented by their Trade Union partners who they work with closely. The role is broad ranging, with a strong employee relations element, but also the opportunity for an individual who enjoys HR project work, management/analysis of data and professional HR advisory.

This position reports to the HR Manager, Daventry, and has the following roles and responsibilities:

• Coach and support People Leaders through all HR related actions including resolution of employee relations issues.
• Support all resourcing requirements aligned to resourcing and skills strategy.
• Develop effective relationships with all key stakeholders including People Leaders and Trade Union partners.
• Use data to proactively identify business needs and collaborate with stakeholders to develop and deliver continuous improvements, aligned to the business strategy, focused on enhancing the employee experience.

Skills Required:

• Your previous HR experience is something they’d like you to share with them, particularly with a focus on business partnership and working within a manufacturing or distribution environment.
• Coaching business partners is an integral part of the role, so you’ll need to provide examples of where you have negotiated and persuaded others, provided counsel and influenced.
• HR administration is an inevitable part of the role, and you will need to demonstrate varied HR administrative skills and examples of projects you have worked on.
• The customer has Trade Union partners to work with and they’d like examples of working in such an environment and how the relationship worked.
• Absence management and disciplinary actions are critical in managing our business and experience with these processes is important.

Skills Preferred:

• Policy Interpretation & Implementation: Advise and support People Leaders, Trade Union partners and employees with the interpretation and implementation of Company policies.
• Partner with key stakeholders, including Occupational Health, on the management of both casual and long-term absence cases to support employee wellbeing and reduce absence levels.
• Provide HR support for formal investigations including discipline, dignity at work and grievance cases partnering with Centres of Expertise to ensure consistency of policy application in line with legal considerations.
• Stay informed of developments within the HR profession and share best practice.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:

A fundamental element of the HR Business Advisor role is to ensure that the customer’s commitments in this regard are maintained ensuring that diversity, equality, and inclusion are promoted for all employees in line with local and corporate strategy.

Education Required:

Ideally you’ll have a Degree or equivalent/CIPD in hand. But if that’s not the case, and you have experience/skills you feel are relevant to the role, we’d be interested to hear from you.