Zellis
Human Resources Specialist
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People Specialist - 9-Month Fixed-Term Contract
Reporting to a Senior People Business Partner and working as part of the People Business Partnering team led by the Zellis Operating Company Chief People Officer, we are looking for a People Specialist to join Zellis on a 9-month fixed-term contract.
This is a highly visible role that combines employee relations expertise, business partnering support, people project delivery and data-driven insight. Working closely with People Business Partners and leaders across the organisation, you will help deliver a great colleague experience while supporting managers to make informed, commercially sound and compliant people decisions.
You'll play a key role in coordinating people initiatives, managing employee relations activity, identifying trends and insights, and supporting the delivery of strategic people priorities during an exciting period of business transformation and growth.
Responsibilities
People Business Partnering
- Support the People Business Partnering team in delivering strategic and operational people priorities across the business.
- Partner with managers to provide pragmatic, commercially focused advice on a broad range of people matters.
- Support organisational change, workforce planning and restructuring activity where required.
- Identify emerging people trends, risks and opportunities and escalate appropriately.
Employee Relations
- Manage employee relations casework across performance, disciplinary, grievance, absence and wellbeing matters.
- Coordinate ER governance activity and ensure actions are progressed effectively and consistently.
- Coach managers to build confidence and capability in managing people issues.
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People Projects & Change
- Coordinate and support people initiatives across the employee lifecycle.
- Support delivery of transformation, culture and organisational effectiveness projects.
- Contribute to process improvements that enhance colleague experience and manager effectiveness.
People Insights
- Produce meaningful people data, reporting and analysis to support business decision-making.
- Identify trends across colleague experience, engagement, performance, absence and employee relations activity.
- Support preparation of executive updates and people reports.
Requirements
We're looking for someone who:
- Has strong employee relations experience and sound UK employment law knowledge.
- Enjoys partnering with managers and influencing positive outcomes.
- Can balance operational delivery with project and change activity.
- Is comfortable analysing people data and turning insights into action.
- Builds trusted relationships quickly and works effectively across different stakeholder groups.
- Is interested in developing a career within People Business Partnering.
- Brings energy, resilience and a continuous improvement mindset.
Benefits & Culture
At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.
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Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:
- Unstoppable together.
- Always learning.
- Make it count.
- Think scale.
Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.
We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:
- A competitive base salary.
- 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
- Private medical insurance.
- Life assurance 4x salary.
- Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
- A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.
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