People Advisor in Stockport

Are you a commercially minded People Advisor who thrives on building manager capability, navigating complex ER cases, and driving operational excellence? We are looking for a proactive, outcomes-focused professional to partner with our managers, providing expert guidance and practical solutions across our growing platform.

Who Are We?

Movera is a flourishing platform business that brings together ambitious home moving brands from across the sector. Built on the heritage and passion of experienced legal services businesses including ONP Solicitors and Cavendish Legal Group, brought together to transform the moving market for the better. Our vision is to create moving and remortgaging experiences to be celebrated – not tolerated.

The Role

This is a core advisory role within the People Business Partnering & Operations function. Designed for an individual who wants to shape people practices at an operational level, this position balances hands-on case management with long-term capability building.

You will be a trusted partner to managers across the business, providing the insight and constructive challenge they need to handle everyday people challenges through to high-risk employee relations matters. Your focus will be on strengthening management confidence, championing early conflict resolution, and translating employment best practice into practical, pragmatic ways of working. You will navigate complexity and pace, ensuring that as we grow, we maintain clarity, consistency, and operational resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Commercially Minded Advice: Provide pragmatic guidance and constructive challenge to managers on policy application and UK employment legislation, supporting informed decision-making and high-performing teams.
• Employee Relations & Case Management: Manage a broad spectrum of ER matters, from day-to-day queries to complex conduct, capability, grievance, and absence cases, balancing colleague experience with business risk.
• Manager Capability & Coaching: Coach and develop line managers to handle people matters with confidence, delivering engaging management development workshops and people focused training across a broad range of topics.
• End-to-End Case Support: Guide managers through formal processes, assisting with documentation, meeting preparation, and early conflict resolution strategies to foster a positive culture.
• Operational & Lifecycle Processes: Oversee key people workflows including flexible working requests, occupational health referrals, family leave, and policy embedding to ensure consistency across all brands.
• Data & Continuous Improvement: Leverage ER data, case trends, and manager feedback to spot risks, strengthen people practices, and optimise people processes, systems, and policies.
• Transformation & Project Support: Provide support to Business Partners during organisational change, consultations, and restructures, while actively contributing to broader People & Culture projects that enhance the colleague experience.

What We’re Looking For

• Employee Relations Expertise: Sound judgement and confidence in supporting employee relations matters of varying complexity, balancing business needs, colleague experience and risk to achieve positive outcomes.
• People-Focused Approach: Ability to build positive relationships and provides supportive, practical people advice.
• Trusted Advisor: Ability to build credibility and strong working relationships with managers providing pragmatic advice and constructive challenge to enable confident decision making.
• Collaborative Mindset: Work effectively with managers, colleagues, and stakeholders at all levels, building strong partnerships across the business.
• Solution-Oriented Thinking: Applies sound judgement and commercial thinking to resolve people issues and support positive business outcomes.
• Resilience and Professionalism: Handle sensitive and confidential matters with professionalism, empathy, and discretion.
• Continuous Improvement Focus: Identify opportunities to improve people practices, processes and ways of working, driving positive change and increased effectiveness.
• Strong Organisational and Prioritisation Skills: Effectively manages competing priorities while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

• Proven experience managing a broad range of employee relations matters, including absence, conduct, capability, grievance and disciplinary cases.
• Experience supporting managers through formal people processes and providing practical, commercially focused people advice.
• Experience handling sensitive and complex employee relations issues, assessing risk and identifying appropriate solutions.
• Strong understanding of UK employment legislation and HR best practice.
• Experience coaching and influencing managers to build confidence and capability in people management.
• Experience delivering training, workshops or management development sessions.
• Experience using HR systems and maintaining accurate employee records.

Desirable

• CIPD Level 5 qualification or equivalent experience.
• Experience operating within a multi-site or fast-paced environment.
• Experience supporting organisational change, consultation or restructuring activity.
• Experience using people data and insights to identify trends and inform decision-making.

What We Offer

We aim to reward your hard work generously. You’ll be greeted in our offices with great coffee, fruit and biscuits to keep you going, alongside all the benefits listed below, plus much more.

• 27 days holiday + your birthday off!
• Health Cash Plan
• Buy/Sell 5 days annual leave per annum
• Build up more annual leave after 1 years service
• Hybrid working
• Free conveyancing legal fees
• Moving home days off
• Volunteering days
• Retailer discounts and frequent socials
• Refer a friend bonuses

Look forward to Monday mornings at Movera, we have the culture, technology and purpose to change the way you feel about your job and strive to create a positive and supportive work environment.

At Movera, we celebrate diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We strive to create an environment where everyone feels valued, heard, and empowered. We believe that a diverse workforce brings unique perspectives and ideas that drive innovation and excellence. We welcome and encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including those from underrepresented groups. If you need any support during the application process, please let us know.

DBS and Financial Checks: We are committed to creating a safe, secure, and trustworthy workplace for everyone. As part of this commitment, all employment offers are subject to successful completion of DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) checks and financial background checks. These checks help us maintain the highest standards of integrity and compliance while ensuring the well-being of our employees and clients. Rest assured, all checks will be carried out with care and in full accordance with relevant data protection laws.