HR/People Advisor (12 - 18 Month FTC)

Overview

This fixed-term, fast-paced HR Practitioner role focuses on supporting line managers with all types of employee relations cases, including absence management, conduct and capability. You will work with colleagues across the People Team to deliver on our key objectives and support our employees day-to-day as needed.

Base pay range

This is a fixed-term, fast-paced role where the successful HR Practitioner candidate will focus primarily on supporting our line managers with all types of employee relations cases, including absence management, conduct and capability.

Responsibilities

• Coach, support and advise managers and team leaders on ways to manage any absence, performance, conduct and capability issues with their people in order to deliver high performance across all our team.
• Design and implement processes aligned to our ethical ethos, which ensure managers and team leaders are equipped to manage the performance, reward, recognition and engagement of their people.
• Respond effectively to a wide range of issues escalated to you both over the phone and face to face, using your experience to determine the appropriate course of action and escalating when needed.
• Continuously review and improve a defined group of people policies and procedures to keep them aligned with legislative and other requirements, whilst maintaining the speed, flexibility and ethos that the company needs to manage effectively.
• Support and deliver functional and Group wide People Change projects and initiatives including restructures, TUPE’s, reward and benefits reviews, job evaluation, recognition and engagement initiatives, people process design and roll-out, research and external benchmarking.
• Support the People team with the development and implementation of HR Systems solutions as part of our people technology strategy.
• Generate best practice ideas, and share these across our People Team and company, looking to be market leading in how we manage our people within our distinctive company culture.
• Use our people process experiences to continually learn, feeding back into our coaching and process review to ensure we are always role modelling the ethos as well as making good decisions for Ecotricity.

If we receive a large number of applications, we may close this advert early, so please apply as soon as you can if interested in this vacancy.

Qualifications

• A successful HR practitioner with a passion for managing employment processes in a pragmatic and an unbiased way
• Experienced in reward, benefits, job evaluation and recognition/engagement activities would be highly beneficial
• Understanding and experience of implementing and/or in depth use of Human Resources systems is desirable and a good understanding of handling sensitive personal data is necessary.
• Part or full CIPD qualified, you can demonstrate knowledge of legal requirements and best practice ideas in a similar industry
• A sharp eye for detail as well as possessing sound judgement and intuition leading to creative solutions and approaches
• Demonstrate strong relationship building and networking skills to effectively partner with all our teams across the Ecotricity Group.
• Able to prioritise workload and work on own initiative, working proactively and at pace to deliver required milestones.
• Great communication skills, verbal and written
• Possess strong ability to adapt style and work well with different audiences,
• Leads by example, is open to feedback and demonstrates the values of the company.

About Ecotricity

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind. Our mission is to change the way energy is made and used in Britain by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy. We don't just supply green energy; we use the money from our customers' bills to fund and develop renewable projects. We build windmills, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain, turning bills into mills.

We don't just focus on energy—we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile service, Ecotalk, to support protecting and regenerating Britain's lost rainforests.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.

Benefits

• Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
• Various company discounts (including shops, gym, days out and events)
• Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
• Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

Location

• Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
• Stonehouse, England, United Kingdom
• Swindon, England, United Kingdom
• Brockworth, England, United Kingdom
• Almondsbury, England, United Kingdom
• Severn Beach, England, United Kingdom

Flexibility

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too - we build windmills, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'.

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