Senior HR Advisor

Job Title:

Senior HR Advisor
Department: HR Partnering & Advisory
Reporting to:
Senior HR Business Partner

Location:

Telford, TF3 4NT

We are looking for a Senior HR Advisor to join our team in Telford. This is a full‑time, hybrid role, working 35 hours per week (2–3 days in office per week). You'll have the opportunity to make a real difference in your dedicated location, partnering with your business stakeholders to act as a trusted advisor, leading and guiding through strategic change and business initiatives.

This is a hands‑on role requiring a pro‑active focus on employee relations activity to ensure a positive colleague journey.

• Be responsible for the delivery of a customer‑focused, high‑quality and effective HR Advisory Service from start to finish, ensuring behaviours align with the employee value proposition and risks to the business are minimised.
• Coach and mentor HR Advisors on complex/sensitive employee relations and/or lead cases that escalates beyond their scope, and provide cover for the HR Advisory team at other locations when required.
• Influence and coach managers on complex/sensitive employee relations, whistleblowing, and employment tribunal cases from start to finish – identifying the root cause and solving for the immediate and future, seeking guidance from the wider HR Team as required to ensure the business operates safely, fairly, and equitably.
• Support the HRBP team by working with identified stakeholders:
  • Proactively build and maintain strong professional and effective working relationships to ensure the business has the appropriate level of support to deliver a seamless and first‑class employee experience that drives performance.
  • Support organisational design activities such as job evaluation and salary benchmarking, restructures, redundancies, acquisitions, TUPE initiatives.
  • Ensure performance conversations, promotions, reward and recognition, talent and succession planning initiatives happen across the business.
  • Support the calibration and moderation processes across the business to ensure consistency and fairness, coaching managers to give structured feedback during performance reviews.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to review engagement survey results, identify focus areas and create and implement local action plans to address improvement areas.
  • Support implementation and adoption of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Wellbeing initiatives within Cabot Group, including signposting colleagues and managers.

• Extensive HR generalist experience in providing advice and solutions independently through a commercial lens.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to challenge, influence and direct the business confidently, adapting to different styles and surroundings.
• Experience developing and supporting organisational change programmes.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft applications (Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• CIPD Level 5 qualified, working towards or equivalent working experience.

• Work with curiosity to appropriately question, influence and advise to ensure the business assesses and understands the impacts of decisions on people.
• Thrive in a complex work environment, thinking on your feet with a pragmatic approach.
• Work with high self‑direction and flexibility, prioritising multiple tasks and using good judgment to resolve problems.

Note:

Any successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic credit check and criminal background check. Applicants with a CCJ, IVA or bankruptcy on the credit file, or who do not have full right to work in the UK, will not be considered for interview.