People Advisor

The Role

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced People Advisor looking for the next step in their career. The People Advisor is a generalist position working within our Global Operations Team, working closely with Senior People Partners, COE and business stakeholders. The People Advisor will be responsible for building strong and dynamic relationships to be seen as a trusted partner providing effective and proactive advisory advice to both individuals and teams. The People Advisor will act as an Employee Champion, driving engagement and reflecting the Firm’s culture and values.

Key Responsibilities 

• Management of Employee Relations cases, alongside the Senior People Partner across the business from an end-to-end delivery perspective including final outcomes, whilst ensuring the firms compliance with employment legislation
• Support and mentor the People Coordinator, to provide advice on and resolving employee and manager queries (e.g., probation reviews, policy advice, sickness absence, parental leave, disciplinary, grievance)
• Support the Senior People Partner and Talent Partner in running a seamless performance review and reward cycle
• Play a key role in developing the reputation of the People Team as a proactive, innovative, and strategic function, ensuring people decisions are made consistently and fairly
• Deal with people requests promptly, managing people’s expectations on speed of response
• Work with the local HR support across all Global offices to actively support our transition to a globally aligned
• Arrange and undertake exit interviews for employees, alongside the People Coordinator, including collation and analysis of trend data, and reporting your findings to the Senior People Partner
• Work closely with the Senior People Partner and senior stakeholders to understand the business context and progress initiatives to address employee engagement and Diversity initiatives
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the HR service to the business, look for and make improvements to our processes to ensure they are efficient and ensure we are providing excellent client service
• Contribute towards providing meaningful analytics to enable business improvement (e.g. exit interview summaries, absence data, headcount reports, start and leaver reports).
• Work closely with the People Coordinator and the People Operations team to ensure a seamless process in relation to all HR administration.

Key Skills & Experience

• Proven experience at People Advisory level including Employee Relations & HR Policy and up to date understanding of UK employment legislation to appropriately advise and lead on performance and ER cases
• Experience in report building, analytics & operations, with a strong attention to detail ensuring all reports, data and written work are correct in detail and without error
• The ability and desire to work autonomously, working with senior level stakeholders
• Operates at a fast pace demonstrating the ability to influence and challenge when needed
• Acts with discretion, integrity and professionalism at all times and is a key source of human resource advice and support for the senior management team
• Creates an immediate, positive, and credible impression on others
• Actively participates in continual professional development and keeps up to date with trends, technology and potential future policies affecting the firm and our people including any relevant statutory changes in employment law
• Can skillfully and confidently influence and negotiate and maintains a positive relationship with all parties during negotiations
• Proactively takes on the challenge of unfamiliar tasks
• The ability and desire to work in an environment of ambiguity, often symptomatic of a rapidly growing global business

Benefits

• Competitive salary (depending on experience)
• 28 days holiday
• Discretionary bonus
• Annual salary review
• Pension (company contribution: 5% of annual salary)
• Investment in personal development & learning
• Enhanced maternity and parental leave (depending on length of service) and shared parental leave
• Private medical insurance
• Group Income protection
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work schemes
• Season ticket loans
• Regular social, cultural and charitable activities

About Teneo

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.

Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organizations.

Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I.

The firm has more than 1,600 employees located in 40+ offices around the world.

The People Team at Teneo

As a People Advisor within Teneo you will support on the development and implementation of people initiatives across our business.

This role is an integral part of a collegiate, ambitious, and highly professional Global People team that aims to always drive innovation, efficiencies, and progressive people solutions to ensure we continue to be an employer of choice.

Within this role you will demonstrate extensive Performance Management & ER knowledge, drive process changes and efficiencies and make decisions in a timely manner that are logical, rational, and well-reasoned as well as be a collaborator across the wider People team function.