People Generalist

People Generalist
Location: Watford (with essential travel to 5 sites across London when required)
Salary: Negotiable
Type: 18-month FTC
Hours: 8.30am – 5pm Monday to Friday
This is a true People Generalist role where no two days are the same. We are looking for someone who enjoys variety, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and wants to play a key role in supporting colleagues, managers and senior leadership team. Your primary focus will be to support six branches, offering advice both over the phone and in person, whilst exploring measures to continually improve and maintain processes.
Benefits:

• 25 Days Holidays, plus bank holidays and your Birthday Day off
• Longservice and milestone birthday celebrations
• Perkbox – 24/7 discounts, wellbeing support, online GP access and more
• Competitive salary
• Pension – up to 3% Company Contribution
• Life Assurance – subject to length of service
• Staff Discount
• Cycle to work scheme

Knowledge, Skills & Experience Required:

• Significant experience in employee relations.
• CIPD Level 5 certification.
• Strong understanding of HR principles, employee relations, practices, and employment laws.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to build robust relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to use and understand AI tools

Key Areas of Responsibilities:
HR Business Partnering:

• Support the Senior People Business Partner, team members and the wider management teams/colleagues with process improvement and query resolution
• Manage employee relations issues end-to-end, ensuring compliance with company policies.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the business, providing HR support at an operational level.
• Supporting the business with long-term objectives and five-year plan
• Facilitate talent management and succession planning.

Employee Relations:

• Manage and resolve employee relations issues, ensuring compliance with company policies and employment law.
• Design and deliver in-house management upskilling workshops
• Visiting branches to ensure HR presence and advice is available for timely support

Employee Engagement and Culture:

• Drive a positive culture by implementing employee engagement initiatives, including surveys and focus groups.
• Actively own and contribute to HR projects at any given time
• Administrate online benefits platform via Perkbox and become a super user to actively promote to staff
• Regularly update and communicate HR policies and procedures.
• Designing and Delivering weekly company induction programme for onboarding new colleagues

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