HR Advisor in Northampton

Location: Northampton (Hybrid)

Package: Competitive salary, bonus plus additional company benefits.

Responsibilities:

• Advise and support managers on disciplinary, grievance, performance, and sickness absence cases from start to finish, ensuring consistent, fair, and timely outcomes in line with legislation, policy and best practice.
• Coach managers to handle sensitive issues confidently, including supporting investigations while preparing and maintaining appropriate documentation.
• Work with managers to identify patterns with sickness absence in order to reduce absence levels, and support employee wellbeing through early intervention and appropriate adjustments.
• Develop and maintain collaborative and productive relationships with business functional areas and managers, establishing professional credibility.
• Support the review and updating of HR policies, ensuring they remain legally compliant, relevant, and practical for the business.
• Provide accurate, timely and relevant management information to the business, identifying levers for change and making recommendations.
• Support the development and delivery of training on HR related matters to equip managers with appropriate skills and knowledge.
• Support workforce planning, role changes, restructures and consultation processes when required.

Qualifications:

• Strong, up‑to‑date understanding of UK employment legislation.
• Proven experience managing ER cases including disciplinary, grievance, and sickness.
• Ability to interpret policies and legislation and apply them in a commercially practical way.
• Confident communicator with the ability to influence, coach, and challenge constructively.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple cases and deadlines.
• CIPD part or fully qualified (or equivalent experience) preferred.
• Good verbal aptitude for producing reports and correspondence.
• Good customer service skills (internal).
• High level interpersonal skills, e.g. conflict resolution.

Benefits:

• Flexible and hybrid working in line with role requirements.
• An inclusive workplace.
• Excellent package with solid basic salary, strong bonus and company benefits including: A competitive holiday entitlement, two days special leave per annum for volunteering, additional holiday purchase scheme.
• Flexible retirement plan.
• Wellbeing schemes to support physical, emotional and financial health including Employee Assistance Programme, financial protection, life cover, will writing, medical protection, gym, travel and retail discounts.
• Company car or car allowance (role‑specific) and cycle to work scheme.
• Career development and life‑long learning opportunities.
• Opportunity to join a global company.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

We are an equal opportunities employer. We are open to discussing adjustments to the recruitment process if needed. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which includes sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non‑membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.