HR Advisor - ER & Partnering

Shape the colleague experience. Influence business decisions. Grow your HR career.

We're looking for an ambitious and commercially minded HR Advisor to join Zellis on a 9-month fixed-term contract.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR professional who thrives on variety, enjoys building trusted relationships, and wants to make a real impact. Working as part of our People Business Partnering team and reporting to a Senior People Business Partner, you'll support leaders across the business to navigate people challenges, drive positive change, and deliver an outstanding colleague experience.

You'll play a key role in employee relations, people projects, workforce insights, and business partnering activity, helping leaders make informed, commercially focused and compliant people decisions. From coaching managers through complex situations to identifying trends from people data and supporting strategic initiatives, no two days will be the same.

This role is ideal for an experienced HR Advisor, People Advisor or HR Specialist looking to broaden their commercial exposure and take the next step towards a future People Business Partner career.

Please note that this is a hybrid role, with an expectation to work from one of our offices in Bristol, Birmingham, Watford or Peterborough at least once a fortnight. 

What you'll be doing

Business Partnering

• Support the People Business Partnering team in delivering strategic and operational people priorities across the organisation.
• Partner with managers to provide pragmatic, commercially focused advice across a broad range of people matters.
• Support organisational change, workforce planning and restructuring activities.
• Identify emerging people trends, risks and opportunities, escalating where appropriate.

Employee Relations

• Manage employee relations casework across performance, disciplinary, grievance, absence and wellbeing matters.
• Coordinate governance activities and case reviews to ensure actions are followed through effectively.
• Coach managers to build confidence and capability in handling people issues.

People Projects & Transformation

• Coordinate and support people initiatives across the employee lifecycle.
• Contribute to transformation, culture and organisational effectiveness projects.
• Identify and implement process improvements that enhance the colleague and manager experience.

People Insights & Reporting

• Produce meaningful people reporting, analysis and insight to support business decision-making.
• Identify trends across engagement, performance, absence, colleague experience and employee relations activity.
• Support the preparation of leadership updates, dashboards and people reports.

We're seeking a proactive and people-focused HR professional who combines strong employee relations expertise with a commercial mindset and a passion for continuous improvement.

You'll ideally bring:

• Strong employee relations experience with a sound understanding of UK employment law.
• Experience partnering with managers and influencing positive outcomes.
• The ability to balance operational HR support with project and change activity.
• Strong analytical skills and confidence interpreting people data and trends.

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:

• A competitive base salary, plus cash car allowance.
• 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.

Interested?

If you're passionate about people, enjoy partnering with leaders, and want to build your career in a progressive, fast-paced organisation, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today and help shape the future colleague experience at Zellis.