dmg::media
HR Advisor Support
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Location: Leicester
Contract Type: 12-month FTC/ In Office Full Time during training period and then 3 days/week in office
About Us
dmg media maintains an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most. Its brands Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Mail+, Metro, The i Paper, and New Scientist reach more than 9 million people daily in the UK.
Globally, dmg media’s brands reach 160 million unique browsers every month across its domains and apps.
Its global newsroom of journalists, formidable story-getting power, and breadth of content formats, delivers highly engaging, trusted content to loyal and new audiences, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The Mail brand reaches three in five Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country. It is the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 21 million total followers and nearly 30 billion views in the past year.
About the Role
We are seeking a proactive HR Advisor to join our team. In this role, you'll work closely with your colleagues to deliver first-line HR Support across all areas of DMG, championing best-practice employee relations, policies, and procedures. As a key member of our team, you will collaborate with the wider HR Business Service Support function to ensure a seamless and high-quality service across the organisation.
Main Responsibilities
- Employee Relations (ER) – Supporting the HR Advisor and business with the preparation and support for ER cases to include grievances, disciplinaries, performance management, etc.
- Involuntary leavers – Supporting the involuntary leaver process from creating initial calculations to producing settlement agreements and ensuring a smooth administrative exit is carried out.
- Family Leave – Supporting the HR Advisor and business, with all meetings, letter confirming plans, initial contact before return, creating Maternity leave packs, and sending business updates to employees during leave.
- Sickness – Notification of end of OSP or SSP, sickness reporting, and trend analysis in conjunction with the HR Advisor.
- Business Reporting – Headcount, starters/leavers, and org charts, etc.
- DSAR’s – Supporting and coordinating requests.
- Support with continuous improvement of HR team processes and maintaining and creating standard operation procedures.
- Responding to ad hoc queries via the central mailbox and workload management tool and be included in the ServiceNow Rota. To include responding to; holiday entitlement, contract clauses, absence reporting, benefit entitlement, or requests.
- Undertake any other duties as may reasonably be required.
- Ensure the relevance and accuracy of all systems and personnel records to include Workday.
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Person Specification
- Experience within an HR Advisor or similar role
- Family leave experience
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrate a high level of understanding of confidentiality and discretion when handling sensitive information.
- Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced environment.
- Attention to detail.
- Problem-solving skills.
- Proactive, willing to independently manage their workload, and actively contribute new ideas and suggestions.
- HR system knowledge and experience.
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Package Description
Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:
- 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
- Upon joining you will be automatically enrolled onto the Pension Plan at the minimum level of 5% employee contribution, 3% Company contribution.
- Life cover under the Pension Plan of up to 3x your basic salary.
- DMGT Discounts (for discounts on online shopping, vouchers, and reloadable cards)
- Our Employee Assistance Programme
- Plus many other benefits…
Our Commitment
We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.
We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.
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