HR Advisor

This role will be an important part of a growing HR function reporting directly into the Senior HR Advisor. As HR Advisor you will work closely with the Senior HR Advisors on all HR related matters delivering professional, pragmatic, and commercially focused HR advice and guidance to line managers. The role holder will work across our sites that are located both in the UK and Republic of Ireland, with a particular focus on our stevedoring operation, warehouse and transport divisions.

This role will require you to really understand how our management teams and colleagues work, whilst coaching our line managers to deliver effective resolutions and ensuring they have all the tools they need to operate in the best way possible. This role will sit within a HR and Payroll team of five. The role will oversee our logistics division comprising of up to 900 people spread across our UK and Ireland based locations. You will work with members of the Logistics Executive Team and with their respective Line Managers, daily across the business as well as providing advice and guidance to employees.

The Day-to-Day

• Assisting the Senior HR Advisors on Employee Relation matters, including discipline, grievance, performance capability and change management processes.
• Assist with cases of ill health capability / long term sickness procedures and occupational health referrals within business area.
• Act as the first point of contact for line-managers within your remit and take ownership for providing robust written and verbal HR advice to stakeholders, assist with the preparation of case related documentation, and ensure the correct and consistent application of HR policies and procedures across the business whilst adhering to procedural timescales.
• Work closely with line-managers and department heads within the business, to ensure a consistent approach to people management and compliance.
• Forming collaborative relationships across all levels of the business.
• Support the Head of HR and Senior HR Advisors in reviewing and implementing new HR Policies & Procedures, in line with changes to relevant employment legislation, coach and support line-managers to ensure these are embedded across the business.
• To be actively involved in all people projects across the logistics business.
• Strive towards continuous improvement of HR processes and Company practices within business areas, ensuring that the HR service delivery meets the requirements of, and can adapt to, the changing needs of a rapidly developing business policies and rules.
• Assisting with the training and development needs of line-managers in the business area – create and deliver targeted HR management training to reduce skill-gaps and improve manager knowledge.
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of Employment Law and developments in HR best practice.
• Oversee all recruitment activity, handling and resolving HR queries / issues raised by line managers and employees respectively.

The Person

Someone with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, to create good strong working relationships with operational managers and employees. A compassionate and people focused individual. CIPD qualified level 5 with 2-3 years’ experience. You will be forward thinking, innovative, solution focused and resilient. You will be confident working autonomously using your own initiative and prioritising, whilst recognising the value and importance of collaborative working and being a good team player. Willingness to travel and work from other sites on a regular basis. Experience of restructuring, TUPE and change management beneficial but not essential. Team player.

The Need-to-Knows

Reporting to: Kirsty Boulton Senior HR Advisor. Denholm Good Logistics is an award-winning freight forwarder and logistics provider, providing shipping solutions to small medium and large growing companies. Established for many generations and steeped in maritime history, the key to our success is not just our industry knowledge but our highly skilled and experienced people, who are dedicated to providing a first-class service to our customers. With offices strategically positioned at major ports throughout the UK, as well as internationally in the USA, Türkiye and China, the business boasts a diverse team of employees. Career progression and development of our people is key to our continuous growth and success. At Denholm Good Logistics, we ensure our employees have access to development opportunities through our structured learning and development agenda, and ensure skill sets and career aspirations continually evolve, along with a focused people strategy that supports employee engagement.

Our recruitment process

All candidates that are shortlisted for an opportunity at Denholm Good Logistics will be invited to complete an employee profiling process in the first instance prior to being invited for an interview in person.

Ready to Apply?

If you would like to apply for this exciting opportunity, please fill in the form below to apply online. You are also welcome to contact us at any time to discuss further details of the role or the business, please feel free to contact a member of the HR team on hr@denholm-logistics.com.