HR Advisor in London

Location: Hybrid (3 days Savile Row, 2 days from home)

Salary: Competitive

We are Food Alert – a leading food safety and health & safety consultancy working across the UK. We genuinely love, admire, and are passionate about the whole food and hospitality industry. From independents to enterprise; suppliers to retailers – our team has worked with clients across the whole spectrum, making their day-to-day simpler, smoother, and safer, with a human touch unique to us. We specialise in the hospitality sector supporting standout names like Starbucks, Dishoom, The Ivy Collection, and Citizen M.

Food Alert forms part of Citation Group - a collective of businesses dedicated to supporting small and medium-sized enterprises across a range of essential services. We know that running a business means juggling a lot. Our mission is to ease these pressures by providing expertise, guidance, and solutions that enable business leaders to focus on what they do best. From HR and Health & Safety to Cybersecurity, E-Learning, and ISO compliance, we’ve got you covered.

Citation has achieved strong growth through a combination of organic expansion and strategic acquisitions, continually broadening our expertise, services, and reach to create a one-stop shop that supports businesses across the UK, Canada and Australia.

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 our teams to deliver the People Plan and their basic HR needs. A key focus of this role will be managing employee relations—acting as a primary point of contact for employee queries, proactively addressing and resolving ER issues, and providing expert support to managers on all aspects of employee relations. You’ll also be involved in the full colleague life cycle, driving colleague engagement, supporting learning and development, championing change, and contributing to business growth.

• Onboarding new starters to ensure they understand our culture and reaching peak performance as quickly as possible.
• Provide HR support for all matters in your business area including performance management, training and development, ER issues including: grievances, disciplinaries, redundancy, long term sick, disputes, assist with TUPE, colleague wellbeing including maternity / paternity.
• Colleague Engagement: Life’s too short to hate where you work, you’ll help drive colleague engagement through a variety of initiatives.
• Change & Growth: Support the team and business to drive change and business growth.
• Liaise with payroll to ensure colleagues are paid correctly.
• Learning & Development: Support the delivery of training or other L&D initiatives, this could range from coordinating it, writing it or delivering it.
• Admin: supporting the team Administrator and ensuring our processes are efficient, effective and scalable as we grow.

About you

We’re not your everyday HR department and we’re not looking for your everyday HR person.

• 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 Food Alert so you’ll need to demonstrate a wide range of influencing and communication skills. People will want to come to you, not just because of your expertise, but because you are a great person to work with.
• 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.
• Experience of supporting a business with a variety of ER issues such as probation reviews, investigation, disciplinary, performance improvement; not just at note taking level but coaching and advising managers.
• 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.

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

• 25 Days of Holiday + 8 Bank Holidays: We’re talking sun-soaked beaches, snow-capped mountains, or simply your favourite cozy spot at home. Take your well-deserved break with 25 days of holiday, plus those cherished bank holidays.
• Birthday Bliss: Your birthday isn’t just another day on the calendar; it’s YOUR day! Enjoy it in style with a day off, because at Citation, we believe in celebrating YOU.
• Post-Wedding Bliss: Newlyweds, we’ve got something special for you too! Extra weeks of holiday to bask in the glow of post-wedding happiness.
• Growing Families: We’re all about supporting our Citation family, and that includes expectant parents. Vouchers and special perks await to celebrate the newest addition to your family.
• Healthcare cash plan: Your well-being is our priority. That’s why we offer private healthcare to ensure your peace of mind and keep you feeling your best.