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Location/s: Croydon or Cambridge, UK
Recruiter contact: Steven Johnston
About The Business Unit
Mott MacDonald’s support services are the driving force behind our organisation, enabling us to run efficiently and effectively. The team works collaboratively to offer specialist advice, best practice, and technology to all areas of our business specifically designed for our global reach.
Overview Of The Role
This is a generalist HR role, in which you will work collaboratively with the enabling teams and the Lead HRBP, offering specialist advice and best practice to all aspects of HR advisory across the employee life cycle, including employee relations (ER), absence management, and first line advisory.
In this role you will:
- Have a strong focus on coaching and supporting managers through a wide range of ER cases, including absence, performance, capability, grievance, disciplinary, investigation, and termination.
- Provide sound advice to managers and employees on HR policies, procedures, and legislation, independently responding to queries and ensuring a consistent and pragmatic approach.
- Advise on family-friendly policies and agile working guidance, including case management of flexible working requests.
- Proactively manage absence and wellbeing cases, including monitoring absence data, managing OH and EAP referrals.
- Provide advice and guidance on secondments, transfers, cross-border remote working requests, and relocations, ensuring a consistent and trackable approach.
- Assist with general cyclical activities such as salary reviews, promotions, and L&D programmes.
- Be responsible for providing monthly and ad-hoc reporting.
- Support with the design and delivery of training materials for the business.
- Support and promote engagement with CSR activities.
- Build key stakeholder relationships.
- Deputise for the Lead HRBP in their absence.
- Make a positive contribution to the development of guidelines for people processes, attend and participate in appropriate meetings and forums.
- Work closely with the HR shared services and payroll teams to ensure accurate and timely transfer of information.
- Support and work closely with the wider EAC HR team and the HR teams in other business units, on ad-hoc projects and tasks as reasonably required.
Candidate Specification
We welcome interest from candidates with:
- Previous experience in an HR advisory role, and excellent knowledge of managing a range of employee relations cases in accordance with UK legislation, to include grievances, disciplinaries, performance management, absence management, restructure, etc.
- Professional, proactive, and positive attitude with the ability to motivate self.
- Reliable and able to work independently.
- Excellent analytical and numeracy skills with the ability to analyse and interpret complex data and people information.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to quickly build effective, collaborative relationships with the wider people team, and other colleagues across the business.
- Good organisation and prioritisation skills with the flexibility to adapt to changing priorities.
- Ability to maintain discretion and integrity at all times.
- Comply with Data Protection and General Data Protections Regulations (GDPR) and ensure the security of employee information in accordance with legislation and best practice.
- Ability to communicate routine and complex information clearly at all levels, recognising the importance of attention to detail and confidentiality.
- Good IT skills, including proficiency in HR Systems, and Microsoft Office.
- CIPD qualified to level 5, or working towards.
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UK Immigration
Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.
Agile Working
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.
Accessibility
We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.
Benefits
Health and wellbeing
- Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
- Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
- Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
- A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
- Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
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Financial wellbeing
- We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
- Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
- Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
- Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving, and will writing.
- As an independently owned business, we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
Lifestyle
- A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
- Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
- Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
Enhanced family and carers leave
- Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
- Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
- Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
Learning and development
- Primary annual professional institution subscription.
- A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
Networks, communities, and social outcomes
- Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
- Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.
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Location(s): Cambridge, GB Croydon, GB
Contract Type: Contract
Work Pattern: Full Time
Market: Various
Discipline: Human resources and talent acquisition
Job Ref: 15724
Recruiter Contact: Steven Johnston
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