HR Generalist

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality HR support while gaining exposure to employment practices across Europe.

As our HR Generalist, you will act as a trusted advisor to managers, managing employee relations matters, supporting compliance and ensuring smooth HR processes throughout the employee lifecycle. This is a hands-on, varied role combining employee relations, organisational support, engagement initiatives, and operational HR administration.

• Provide first-line HR advice to managers and employees on all employee relations matters
• Manage a broad range of casework including disciplinaries, grievances and absence management
• Coach and support managers to strengthen their people management capability
• Help deliver a consistent and engaging employee experience, including onboarding, inductions, and support engagement initiatives and communications
• Produce contracts, variations and employee documentation across the full lifecycle (transfers, promotions, resignations etc.)
• Manage the HR inbox (references, employee requests, information queries)
• Support payroll processes and wider HR administrative activities
• Track, analyse and interpret HR metrics including sickness absence, turnover and exit interview trends.
• Use data insights to advise managers on key focus areas and develop improvement initiatives.

You’re a proactive and credible HR professional who enjoys balancing HR administration, employee relations and data analysis. You’re organised, resilient, and a self-starter with the professional courage to handle sensitive situations with fairness and integrity.

• CIPD Level 3 (minimum)
• Solid experience managing employee relations casework
• Experience working with HR systems
• Strong analytical skills – you’re comfortable working with absence, turnover and feedback data and turning this into meaningful insight
• A high level of professionalism and confidentiality
• Confidence to professionally challenge and influence line managers
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• Experience of European employment law or languages such as Spanish, Italian or Dutch would be advantageous
• A collaborative mindset and willingness to support across the HR shared service function

You can join a HR team supporting the wider EMEA region. You’ll gain exposure to employment law and HR practices across multiple European countries. You can develop your skills and experience in HR areas you haven’t yet been exposed to. The ability to support and deliver on key HR projects. Be part of a collaborative, supportive HR function where your contribution genuinely matters.

This is a full time role working from our site in Belton (near Loughborough).

• Starting salary of £33,256 (or more depending on experience)
• 33 days’ holiday (including 8 bank holidays)
• Pension, life assurance, and income protection (after qualifying period)
• Flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, tech discounts, and retail savings
• Employee wellbeing support via EAP, fitness and wellness platform, and mental health resources

You’ll need a driving licence as we’re in a rural location with no public transport to the site.

Due to biosecurity requirements, you can’t keep pet rodents or rabbits. Please also let us know if you have animals that feed on rodents (e.g. snakes or birds).

If you’re ready to take the next step in your HR career and broaden your international exposure while making a real impact locally, then click APPLY now - we’d love to hear from you.