HR Advisor - Milton Keynes in Sutton

About The Role

SALARY: Up to £52,000 pa (pro rata) dependent on experience

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

HYBRID WORKING: Our current hybrid working policy requires a minimum of 60% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office however flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role.

HOURS / CONTRACT TYPE: Part Time Permanent - 32 hours per week

CLOSING DATE: 19/02/2026

We reserve the right to close the advert earlier if we receive a high volume of applications.

Are you passionate about employee relations and making a real impact across a business? Do you thrive on partnering with managers, influencing decisions and driving positive people outcomes? We’re looking for an experienced HR Advisor to provide expert HR guidance and support, working closely with managers at all levels across the organisation. In this role, you’ll actively contribute to the delivery of our company strategy by enabling strong people management and delivering high-quality, consistent employee relations support.

Working alongside key business stakeholders, HR Business Partners and the ER & Compliance Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in managing end-to-end employee relations cases, driving manager capability and ensuring compliant, positive outcomes in line with UK employment law and best practice.

If you enjoy variety, challenge and the opportunity to influence how people experience work — this could be the role for you.

What you’ll be doing:

• Are you confident coaching managers through complex people situations? You’ll act as a trusted partner to the business, influencing, challenging and coaching people managers to competently manage ER activity and contractual changes. This includes (but is not limited to) probation management, performance management, disciplinary and grievance cases, flexible working requests and health related matters. You’ll manage stakeholders throughout each case, escalating complex or high risk matters when appropriate, while ensuring consistency, compliance and alignment with our values.
• Do you take pride in high quality, detail driven case management? You’ll ensure effective management of ER cases through accurate tracking, detailed documentation and clear audit trails. Working collaboratively with the HR Operations team, you’ll regularly review case activity, use data to identify trends and make insightful, commercial recommendations.
• Are you passionate about employee wellbeing and absence management? You’ll lead on sickness absence casework, providing expert advice and support in line with employment legislation. This includes liaising with Occupational Health and third party wellbeing providers, identifying absence trends and supporting managers to take timely, appropriate action that prioritises employee wellbeing.
• Do you enjoy coordinating and delivering annual HR processes? You’ll lead the planning and coordination of HR Cycle activities for your client areas, including facilitating performance calibration sessions and developing high quality guidance and training materials. You’ll analyse performance data to support annual remuneration processes and collaborate with colleagues across Learning & Development and Reward & Benefits to deliver a seamless end-to-end performance management process.
• Want to make a broader impact across the people agenda? You’ll support the wider HR Operations team with the delivery of people plans, including talent, succession and resourcing initiatives, while acting as a trusted expert who identifies and mitigates risk and offers practical, compliant solutions.

A full job description is available on request.

What you’ll bring:

Are you an experienced HR professional who thrives in a fast paced environment? You’ll be confident managing ER cases end-to-end, coaching managers and building their capability to lead effective, engaged teams. You’ll also bring:

• The ability to perform well under pressure and manage competing priorities
• Strong problem solving skills, balancing commercial needs with a positive employee experience
• A genuine customer focus and desire to exceed internal stakeholder expectations
• Excellent written English, with the ability to produce detailed case documentation, reports and formal correspondence
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills at all levels
• A strong moral compass, with the confidence to challenge constructively while upholding company values
• Experience designing and delivering training and presentations that build manager capability
• High emotional intelligence and a genuine curiosity to understand people and their perspectives
• CIPD qualification (preferred)

What’s in it for you?

• Bonus: Discretionary 10% on-target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance)
• Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution.
• Car schemes: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance. OR Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.
• Other benefits: From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).
• Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover), access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover, so you can select the benefits that matter to you.
• We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You’ll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.

About You

About Us

Why join VWFS UK? You’ll have the opportunity to make a difference by helping us to achieve our mission. Our mission is straightforward; we want to be 'The Key to Mobility'. That means we make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!

VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn’t just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team.

This role does not meet the UKVI’s criteria for the skilled worker sponsorship route, therefore we are unable to accept candidates requiring sponsorship for this role.