Job Title: HR Consultant
Location: Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Salary: £50,000 + per annum plus discretionary bonus
Job type: Permanent, Full time
Beststart HR supports businesses spanning the country with all their HR needs specifically tailored to their business and industry. Working predominantly with companies with 30-250 employees, across a range of industries, our HR Consultants advise boards and senior managers on how to work with their people to best protect the interests of the business and to drive productivity.
The Role:
Our HR Consultant role provides excellent experience of work across the complete spectrum of HR disciplines. You will be solving people challenges framed by widely varying cultures and differing commercial factors leading to your HR knowledge and skillset being tested and developed at a much-accelerated pace to an in-house generalist HR role.
Our HR Consultants work from our office in Stevenage, their homes and on our client sites. We have a hybrid working pattern; however, being flexible and able to work across all these locations is essential to enable us to maintain our team dynamics. The travel to client premises may involve regular commuting to locations that are usually within 1.5 hours of Stevenage but may, from time to time and for the limited period of a particular project, be further afield or include overnight stays.
The Candidate:
We are looking for a skilled and experienced HR generalist who has operated as a HR Manager or Business Partner to join our growing team of HR Consultants. Any direct consultancy experience would be a bonus but is not essential. You will be well versed in many of the following HR disciplines and the commercial dynamics that would impact your approach: Talent and Performance Management, Employment Law and Employee Relations, Reward and Remuneration, Learning and Development, People Strategy Development.
We are a team of hard working and high achieving professionals committed to doing what it takes to complete our work. A strong candidate will:
- see themself when they read our company values;
- possess a high level of intellect;
- be career driven with a genuine drive to become the best in the HR profession, ready to embrace broadening and deepening their skillset;
- be resilient and cope with difficult individuals in high pressure situations;
- be comfortable building relationships with clients and competent using all means of staying in touch e.g. face-to-face, video calls, phone, email; and
- possess strong organisational and time management skills to be able to complete daily timesheets and manage workload for several clients concurrently.
We should not forget to give a mention to our big, friendly dog, Aero, who sleeps in the office most of the day!
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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Group Human Resource Officer, HR Generalist, Group HR Officer, Senior HR Officer, Human Resources Generalist, Senior HR Advisor, HR Specialist, Employee Relations Specialist, Senior Employee Relations Advisor, Employee Relations Manager, Group HR Operations Officer, HR Business Partner, Senior HR Business Partner, HR Manager, Senior HR Manager may also be considered for this role.
