People Advisor - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

A day in the life

We are seeking a proactive and confident People Advisor to join our People Team. This role is suited to an experienced People Advisor who is comfortable operating in an advisory capacity and supporting managers across the business to deliver pragmatic people solutions.

You will act as a trusted advisor on a wide range of HR matters, ensuring a consistent, fair, and legally compliant approach in line with UK employment law and company policies. The role requires solid employee relations expertise, sound judgement, and the ability to support business change initiatives with confidence and sensitivity.

You will also have line management responsibility for the People Administrator, ensuring the delivery of efficient, high-quality HR operations.

Your responsibilities

Employee Relations & Advisory

• Provide timely, practical, and commercially sound HR advice to managers on a full range of employee relations matters, including sickness absence, performance, conduct, and grievance issues.
• Lead and manage a variety of ER cases end-to-end, including complex and sensitive matters, ensuring risk is appropriately managed.
• Guide managers through formal processes, including investigations, disciplinary and grievance procedures, ensuring best practice and consistency.
• Support organisational change activity, changes to team structures, and workforce planning initiatives.
• Ensure all advice and case management aligns with current UK employment legislation and internal policies.

HR Operations & Processes

• Oversee and continuously improve employee lifecycle processes, from onboarding through to offboarding, ensuring a high-quality and consistent experience.
• Prepare and review employment-related documentation, including contractual changes, outcome letters, and formal correspondence.
• Collaborate with the People Administrator and wider team to ensure efficient and accurate HR administration.
• Support payroll processes and monthly data changes where required.

Policy, Compliance & Best Practice

• Contribute to the development, review, and implementation of HR policies and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with GDPR and internal data protection standards.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice, proactively sharing insights with stakeholders and the People Team.

Learning, Development & Culture

• Support and deliver training for managers on key HR topics (e.g., managing performance, absence, and employee relations processes).
• Support managers in promoting a positive employee experience and contribute to engagement and wellbeing initiatives.

Project Work

• Contribute to People Team projects, such as process improvements, systems enhancements, DE&I initiatives, and organisational change programmes.
• Take ownership of key workstreams within broader change initiatives, ensuring effective communication and implementation.

Your skills and experience

Essential

• Proven experience in a People Advisor (or equivalent) role within a UK-based organisation.
• Strong employee relations experience, with confidence managing a range of cases independently.
• Experience supporting organisational change and managing sensitive people matters with professionalism and discretion.
• Solid understanding of UK employment law and HR best practice.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence and build credibility with stakeholders.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage competing priorities and work at pace.
• CIPD Level 5 qualified 

Desirable

• Experience working in a fast-paced or changing environment.
• Familiarity with HRIS platforms and HR data reporting.

Key Competencies

• Confidentiality and professional integrity
• Sound judgement and decision-making
• Resilience and ability to remain calm under pressure
• Empathy, fairness, and credibility
• Proactive and solutions-focused approach
• Continuous improvement mindset

The interview process

This position has a 3 step interview process, which will be held via Zoom.

· Stage 1 – an informal meeting with our Talent team. We’ll explain more about the role and how your experience matches up with what we need.

· Stage 2 – you’ll meet two of the members in the team. This will be a longer interview up to an hour and we’ll ask you some competency questions while exploring your experience further.

· Stage 3 – when we’re hiring bigger intakes at the same time, we may need to hold a final meeting with your new manager or another senior colleague before extending an offer.

Ways of working

On a typical day you’ll be working from a laptop with a screen, mouse, keyboard, and headset. You’ll be meeting your colleagues on Zoom and keeping in touch regularly via email and Slack too – we’d expect you to be using your computer for around seven hours a day. We’d ask that you have a distraction-free work area and a reliable internet connection with a speed of 40Mbps so you can work effectively. We’ll make sure you have the right home set-up that supports you in the role by providing best-in-class technology, money towards a desk, and vision support.

***This is a remote-first role with the requirement for one day a week in the office.***

Inclusion at ManyPets

We promise to give you the same opportunities as everyone else and we won’t discriminate against you at any point in the process. This includes how we source talent, our interview process, our conditions of employment (including pay) and feedback.

Reasonable adjustments and support

If you need any help, support, or advice at any point during the hiring process please email Inclusion@ManyPets.com. If you want to ask any questions or request an adjustment, please let us know and we'll do what we can to flex our approach.