People Adviser

Music is Universal

It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition, please email Uni

The People Adviser role is pivotal in providing expert HR advice and guidance, managing employee relations, absence and parental leave processes, and supporting occupational health and wellbeing in line with UK employment law.

Support their Line Manager with their client group(s) in the following areas:

• Serve as the primary contact for employee queries related to HR policies, employment contracts, benefits, and procedures in the relevant client groups.
• Works with their Line Manager and Employment Legal Team to provide guidance on employee relations matters.
• As directed by their Line Manager or relevant member of the People Leadership Team to support on grievances and disciplinaries including note taking.
• Work with the Line Manager to lead on probation reviews, visa expiries and any relevant employment status checks.
• Assist in coaching managers on addressing employee relations issues, including performance management, absence management, and best HR practices.
• Assist in the development of Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) and track progress to ensure successful resolution of performance issues.
• Work as an Adviser group to gather interview data from employee lifecycle surveys (and face to face interviews where required), collating trends and making proposals for retention programmes or actions within the PIC Data report.

• Manage employee absence queries, ensuring compliance with our company policy.
• Working with managers to ensure they are managing and monitoring sickness absence including implementing absence management plans, monitoring sick pay, return-to-work interviews, and other interventions to support employee wellbeing.
• Ensures managers are accurately recording absence in Workday and where possible and necessary, preparing reports on absence trends and patterns on individuals or teams.

• Liaise with the Health & Safety team and Occupational Health providers to arrange employee referrals for health assessments and hearing tests, ensuring appropriate support and/or reasonable adjustments are offered for medical issues, mental health concerns and/or disability.
• Using input from occupational health and/or health & safety team, advise managers and employees on reasonable adjustments for employees with long-term health conditions, disabilities or following illness/injury, facilitating a smooth return to work. Effectively document the process to ensure a clear record is available.
• Liaise with Benefits Analyst to ensure that all necessary information is gathered for Insurers where relevant and that information provided by Insurers is followed through.
• Work with the Adviser group to coordinate employee wellbeing initiatives to support physical and mental health in the workplace, and with the Benefits Analyst to take the lead on co-ordinating activity for Mental Health Awareness Week and other activities within a Wellbeing…