HR Advisor in Thrapston

Are you passionate about people and confident in providing HR support and guidance across a fast-paced operational environment? Do you have strong employee relations experience and a solid understanding of UK employment law? Are you looking for an opportunity where you can influence culture, drive engagement, and make a real impact on business performance?

Here at GXO, we’re looking for an experienced HR Advisor to join our Fashion & Apparel team at our Primark site in Thrapston. Reporting to the HR Manager and supporting both Warehouse and Transport operations, you’ll play a key role in delivering a professional, proactive, and customer-focused HR service, ensuring colleagues and managers receive expert support across the full employee lifecycle. This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy, people-focused operation where you’ll shape culture, support employee engagement initiatives, and contribute to the continued success of the site. This is a full-time, permanent position. You will work on-site Monday to Friday, 09:00 till 17:00.

Pay, benefits and more: We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £35,000 per annum, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, private medical & dental insurance, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You’ll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more!

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Provide expert HR advice and support to managers on employee relation matters, including disciplinary, grievance, performance management, absence management, and capability cases.
• Partner with operational leaders to drive engagement, performance, talent development, and the delivery of the site’s people plan.
• Support recruitment and onboarding activities, ensuring a positive candidate and colleague experience while maintaining compliance with company processes.
• Analyse and report on HR metrics including absence, turnover, headcount, and employee relations trends, providing insights to support business decisions.
• Champion employee engagement, cultural change, and continuous improvement initiatives across the site while deputising for the HR Manager when required.

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Previous experience in a generalist HR Advisor role, ideally within a logistics, warehousing, manufacturing, or fast-paced operational environment.
• Strong knowledge of employment law, HR policies, employee relations, and change management practices.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and support stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• CIPD Level 5 qualified (or currently studying towards) and confident using Microsoft Office and HR Systems.

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains. GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work.

GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.