Senior HR Advisor (Maternity Cover)
This is an exciting opportunity to work with the HR Business Partners to help provide a full HR operational advisory service to the Residential business unit across the whole of the UK.
Role Overview
To work with the HR Business Partners to help provide a full HR operational advisory service to the Residential business unit across the whole of the UK. This is a broad generalist role encompassing day-to-day HR and more ad-hoc project work as required.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a busy and varied role where you will need to be able to build relationships with employees and managers across the whole business unit. The successful candidate will therefore be willing to travel as necessary in accordance with business needs.
Key Responsibilities
Employee Relations
• Supporting the Divisional HR Business Partner to deliver HR strategy and Divisional goals
• Assisting with disciplinary investigations and managing hearings
• Assisting with grievance investigations and managing hearings
• Lead on grievance/disciplinary outcome documents
• Escalate complex employee relations issues to the Divisional HR Business Partner and assist with cases where appropriate
• Working with Managers to implement Performance Improvement Plans
• Providing support to those on Performance Management improvement targets, liaising with People Development where required
• Supporting the HR Business Partner on Change Initiatives e.g. restructuring and redundancy programmes
• Manage flexible working requests
Recruitment & Selection
• Assisting the Recruitment team and Line Managers where necessary to support with Residential recruitment to include advising on best recruitment and assessment methods and conducting/leading interviews
• Providing training where needed on recruitment processes to line managers
Other Responsibilities
• Representing the HR function via on-site visits (e.g. Client visits, Admin Rep meetings) and feeding back any concerns or ideas
• HR Business Improvement Champion – analysing where HR processes and systems can be made more effective and efficient, making suggestions for efficiencies and driving these through to successful completion
• Managing queries and having conversations with employees and managers about family parental leave
• Data management
Projects
• HR Project team member, presenting ideas and driving recommendations through to successful conclusion
• Support the Divisional HR Business Partners with the annual promotion process, analysing data, providing regular updates and interviewing candidates
• Supporting promotions, salary reviews and bonus programmes in conjunction with HR BP
Additional
• Management reporting, presenting analysis and recommendations to key Leaders re trends and concerns (Divisional Board Meeting attendee)
• Working with HR Business partners to build knowledge of employment Law, becoming confident over time with presenting risk v reward options and managing Settlements and ET cases
Key Skills
• Previous experience working as a Senior HR generalist
• CIPD qualified
• Up to date knowledge of current employment legislation
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships and influence stakeholders across all levels of the organisation
• Highly proficient in the use of Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Experience of working with a HR database
• Ability to multi-task
• Good planning and organisational skills
• Good attention to detail
• Good interpersonal/verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision
• Pro-active/takes ownership of responsibilities
• Ability to work well under tight deadlines
• Ability to travel to other offices in the UK, sometimes at short notice
Team Overview
Our HR department is at the core of our Company, ensuring we attract, develop and retain the best talent while maintaining a positive working culture. As an Associate HR Business Partner, you will collaborate closely with various Residential teams and play an essential role in steering our Company towards achieving its objectives.
Find out more about Savills offer
Recruitment agencies
Savills only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to Savills or any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, agency fees will not be paid.
Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.
- Business area
- Business Operations
- Role
- Human Resources
- Locations
- Margaret Street, London
- Contract Type
- Fixed term contract, Full time
- Remote Status
- This role offers some working from home
- Salary
- Competitive
Margaret Street, London
Our offer
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Holiday
We understand the importance of a work life balance and offer you a generous holiday entitlement, which increases throughout your career as you progress through our job levels or reach service milestones.
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Health
Your wellbeing and that of your family is as important to us as it is to you. We offer Virtual Gp, Digital Health, Private Medical Scheme and mental health support amongst other benefits.
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Lifestyle
We promote a healthy work life balance, supported by our approach to flexible working and our wide variety of health, wellbeing and social programmes.
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Our Offer
Read more about our benefits and culture in our offer overview below
Values
No matter the role you’re in, we all share one purpose: to help people thrive through places and spaces. This is built into our DNA, shaping the way we behave to deliver the best results. We define it by four key values:
We listen: Tell us your goals and aspirations and we’ll provide the support you need to achieve them. We appreciate the individual value of every team member and create an environment where you can reach your full potential.
We empower: Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve. We give you opportunities to have a real, positive impact in the community through the work you do, backed by access to our market-leading research and insights.
We challenge: The best results happen when we question the status quo. We create an environment where you can safely challenge our thinking, bringing fresh ideas to the table to innovate as a team.
We collaborate: When you join Savills, you become part of a 40,000-strong network of driven individuals, all sharing their knowledge and experience to push the real estate industry forward.
At the heart of it all, we deliver best-in-class insights and advice to help people make better property decisions. We're looking for colleagues who will help us on this mission. When you join Savills, our ask for you is simple – to be extraordinary, together.
About Savills
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Senior HR Advisor (Maternity Cover)
This is an exciting opportunity to work with the HR Business Partners to help provide a full HR operational advisory service to the Residential business unit across the whole of the UK.
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