HR Advisor

at  boohoo group

YOUR TEAM

We started out as one brand with only three team members in 2006, today we are now made up of 13 amazing brands and counting, we have offices all over the world and we’ve grown to a 4,000+ strong team we call our boohoo family – and we don’t plan on stopping yet. We have big ambitions, huge potential, and a clear strategy to continually evolve and grow the business. It’s a seriously exciting time to join us and influence the next chapter of our success.
In the People team, we create a workplace where people love what they do and feel valued as they develop and grow. We support the entire boohoo family, so we focus on transforming and reimagining the entire candidate and employee experience for the better through change, growth, and opportunity. We want the Group to be the best employer within the e-commerce fashion industry.

THE ROLE

Provide fully generalist HR support to our colleagues at all levels across the business and will be an active participant in delivering the HR strategy through specific HR projects. You will also provide high level proactive and commercial Employee Relations advice and support for the operations team and functional departments. Focus of the role will be contributing to creating a responsive, expert point of contact that meets the needs of your key stakeholders.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Accountability for own caseload of ER matters, ensuring that the wider team has an understanding of the wider ER trends.
• Be a source of expert ER advice that is both commercial and balanced with consideration of any legal implications for people managers.
• Through coaching and influence, bring managers and colleagues to the right solution or an understanding any risks around their preferred approach.
• Maintain an up to date knowledge of employment legislation and understand how this may impact on processes and policies. Recommend changes to the HR Manager as appropriate.
• Using management information, identify ER trends and work with the HR Manager on solutions as necessary.
• Contribute to projects as an HR expert as required.
• Supporting with colleague onboarding and performance management.
• Lead development sessions around HR processes and employment legislation for managers, focused on improving understanding capability to support self-sufficiency.
• Develop People metrics that provide visibility on all people issues within the areas you support, ensuring that it continues to be fit for purpose and accurate.
• Develop and amend policies and procedural documents to support our people practices.
• Develop and deliver effective training on people management issues.
• Carry out right to work checks and all pre-employment checks.
• Ensure effective support across all parts of HR (talent acquisition, recruitment strategy, reward, engagement) are met and that key performance indicators are put in place and achieved.
• Drive and embed cultural change journey and engagement programmes.
• Review and analyse people data to identify trends and recommend solutions to improve performance, retention, absence levels and conduct, employee engagement and external employer branding.
• Involvement in Boohoo’s ‘People’ strategy, including a focus on diversity, inclusion and equity.