Human Resources Advisor in London Area

Job description

Our client is a multi award winning, global Media Agency who champion the employee experience, empowering growth, celebrating excellence, and driving success. They're big on career development, internal mobility, learning, and engagement, always pushing for progress and setting the bar high. They're now looking for an experienced and highly organised People Advisor who’s passionate about delivering a brilliant service in a fast-paced media agency environment.

In this role, you’ll provide hands-on people support across the full employee lifecycle and across all business units. You’ll work closely with the operational side of the People team to deliver efficient, effective business partnering while helping to enhance the overall employee experience.

Their People team is all about creating an environment where everyone can thrive through fresh thinking and solutions-focused approaches.

Your day-to-day:

Employee relations (ER)

• Provide clear advice, coaching, and training to managers and employees across a range of people policies – including maternity, absence, flexible working, parental leave, performance management, discipline, and grievance processes.
• Manage employee relations (ER) cases – such as grievances, disciplinaries, absence management, and wellbeing – escalating more complex matters to the Business Partner when needed.
• Regularly review and develop people policies and procedures, recommending updates to keep us fully aligned with the latest employment law and best practice.
• Support the Business Partners with key annual processes, including performance and talent management activities.
• Making sure all first-day right-to-work checks are completed accurately and on time, keeping us fully compliant with legal requirements.

Employee engagement:

• Deliver new joiner inductions to help make sure everyone settles in smoothly and feels part of the team from day one.
• Create quarterly insight reports for the Business based on key insights from onboarding and offboarding employee feedback.
• Working on People Team projects that boost employee engagement, wellbeing, and inclusion across the business.

Learning & Development (L&D)

• Coordinate internal and external training programmes, making sure everything runs smoothly and on time.
• Keep our learning and development trackers up to date, helping us stay on top of all training activity.
• Deliver and develop internal training sessions that meet the needs of the business and help our people grow.

Other

• Actively participating in Agency and network wide initiatives.
• Work alongside senior HR team members to co-lead and deliver presentations as required.
• Ad-hoc support for the wider People Team as required.

Attributes, Skills, and Behaviours:

• A fresh perspective and a drive to keep improving — you’re always looking for new and better ways of doing things, celebrating small wins every day, and leading with care, respect, and openness.
• A solution-focused, service-minded approach, always working in a timely and efficient way.
• Solid experience in generalist HR, ideally in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong knowledge of best practice HR processes, procedures, and UK employment law.
• A collaborative mindset – you’ll work closely with the wider People team and be confident using an HRIS .
• An approachable and engaging style – you’re comfortable building relationships across all levels of the agency.
• Great communication skills, with the confidence to present people updates to both the People team and the wider business when needed.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

London Area

Type of Contract

Casual / Part Time Jobs

Published at

18-09-2025

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English