HR People Advisor

Posted 12 March 2025
LocationBedford
Job type Fixed-Term
Discipline Human Resources
Reference012204

Job description

People Advisor (12 Month Fixed Term Contract) 

Regional Multi Site Role - Travel Required

Want to be the best you can be? It's what drives us too.

Working in our HR department as a People Advisor you will be a key part of the organisation. You will have excellent communication and organisational skills.

As part of a successful, global automotive group, you’ll broaden your experience across both sites and brands. And with the right support from us, you’ll be able to progress as high as you can aim.

What we can offer you

  • 24/7 online access to healthcare professionals
  • Car purchasing and lease schemes
  • Servicing, parts & accessory colleague discounts.
  • Enhanced holiday allowance with length of service
  • Paid day off for your birthday
  • Company share purchase plan
  • Loan plans for colleagues, including toolbox and travel tickets
  • Colleague referral payments
  • Industry leading family friendly policies
  • Numerous training, learning and development options to suit everyone
  • Plus lot’s more

What you’ll do day to day

  • Manage contacts into the People Team from managers and colleagues, these may be via teams, email or phone. Providing first point of contact service. This could involve providing information and advice or triaging to another member of the people Team.
  • Manage a volume and variety of employee relations cases effectively at any one time ensuring a fair, pragmatic and consistent approach is applied across the business.
  • Coach and support managers in employee relations maters to improve people management capability including all formal processes, contractual obligations, terms and conditions, policies etc.
  • Be able to support conflict resolution via Mediation.
  • Ensure that all correspondence in relation to the above meets minimum standards/legal obligations and is recorded appropriately and in line with GDPR standards.
  • Develop and maintain strong working relationships with People Partners, providing updates on cases, and advising on potential issues arising.
  • Identify and contribute to continuous improvement within the People Team around our service offering.
  • To support implementation of any change programmes for Resource Plan and other organisation changes.

Helpful skills and qualifications

Don’t worry about ticking off every single skill here − if you care about delivering great experiences as much as we do, we want to hear from you.

  • Proven experience as an HR Advisor or in a similar HR role.
  • Strong knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practices.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
  • Strong organizational and time management skills.
  • Proficiency in HR software and Microsoft Office Suite

Be part of something big 

Group 1 Automotive is on an exciting growth journey. We are home to over 7000 colleagues dedicated to providing exceptional customer service, with 114 dealerships in the UK, representing 21 brands at the forefront of automotive retail. 

But you don’t need to love cars to work with us - just need to share our mission to create outstanding and trusted experiences for our customers, our partners, and our people 

Our Values

At Group 1 Automotive we pride ourselves on our five core values that are incorporated in all we that do.

Respect - Integrity - Transparency - Teamwork – Professionalism

These are the principles that every member of our team lives by, whether that be business functions, customer interactions, how we interact with the local community and even how we view each other in the team.