Organisation:

Phoenix Group

Industry:

Recruitment

Expiration Date:

18/03/2023

Displayed salary:

Competitive

City/Town:

Telford

Remote:

No

Opportunity Description

Job Type: 12 month Fixed Term Contract

Location and flexible working: This role could be based in any of our offices, with hybrid working. We recognise the benefits of flexible working and will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.

Closing Date: 10 th March 2023

Salary and benefits : Up to £40,000 plus 8% bonus up to 16%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a HR People Consultant to join our People Consultancy team.

Who are we?

We want to be the best place that any of our 8,000 colleagues have ever worked.

We're the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer our 13 million customers products across our market-leading brands, including Standard Life, SunLife and ReAssure, with c.£310 billion of assets under administration. We're a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we're not done yet.

The role

We're currently recruiting for a People Consultant to join our team to provide technically competent advice and consultancy in the delivery of People Function services across the organisation. This role provides hands on delivery of technical HR support, offering consultancy and guidance to all colleagues in our business. As part of the People Consultancy team, you'll play your part in delivering an effective and professional generalist HR service in line with our organisational policies, legislation and best practice. You'll be an expert in employment law enabling you to deal with complex ER issues. You'll provide thorough and timely case management on all aspects of our colleague's journey. From probation, performance, absence and conduct through to exits, you'll support our people managers each step of the way including attendance at formal meetings, through to successful case resolution.

You'll have proven experience of Organisational Design including redundancy and TUPE enabling you to support stakeholders with all related activities through to project completion.

In everything you deliver you'll be mindful of timescales, governance and controls and make sure risks are managed appropriately, balancing legal compliance with a commercial appetite. You'll continually looking for opportunities to enhance the support we give, with customer centricity at the forefront.

What you'll do

• Provide technical advice and consultancy to ensure managers have the tools and information required to manage their people effectively at all stages of the employee lifecycle
• Coach our People Managers, often dealing with ambiguity in order to identify the key risks and issues of a situation and provide risk-based options that have a commercial focus.
• Support our People Managers to proactively manage colleagues' wellbeing, both whilst at work or during short term or longer term absence.
• Use your sound knowledge of what is available through our Group Income Protection scheme, to support colleagues as early as possible with the view of helping them return.
• Coach stakeholders on organisational design including OD business cases, advising on appropriate selection criteria, supporting redundancy and TUPE consultation process through to the project completion.
• Confidently support the business on 'without prejudice' conversations through to resolution through settlement agreements.
• Proactively spot trends in the team's activity and provide insights to appropriate stakeholders and customers to inform people plans and manager education.
• Confidently deliver manager education sessions on our processes and ways of working to support them in the ongoing effective management of their teams.
• Provide guidance and advice on matters of employment policy whilst performing a governance role across policies that sit within other HR Centres of Excellence
• Lead and deliver assigned projects, typically in relation to wider Corporate and HR initiatives.

What are we looking for?

• Proven experience in case management of all Employee Relations (ER) activities, particularly complex and potential high risk cases.
• Experience of putting employment law knowledge into practice in a commercial environment
• CIPD or equivalent Employment law qualification
• Regulatory experience is desirable

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we've advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

Find out more about #LifeAtPhoenix

• Guide for Candidates: thephoenixgroup.pagetiger.com/guideforcandidates

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