People Consultant; Junior​/Mid Level

People Consultant (Junior / Mid Level)

Department: People Operations

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Edinburgh

Compensation: £28,000 - £34,000 / year

Our People Operations team 👋

The People Operations team supports and enables everyone in Free Agent to focus on doing their best work, through the delivery of exceptional service across our 3 sub-teams: the People team, Talent team and Front Office team. The working environment is fast paced, agile and fun. We're a highly supportive and collaborative team and central to the way we work is a desire to work smarter, finding ways to improve what we do and how we do it.

We’re on the lookout for a generalist People Consultant to join our friendly and supportive People team. As a People Consultant, you’ll enjoy variety, ongoing development, and have a chance to influence a variety of strategic people focused projects. To be successful in this position you’ll have had experience in a similar HR role at a junior or mid level, and be able to demonstrate your ability to advise managers on various people topics.

You’ll be:

• owning key people processes: managing a range of employee lifecycle processes from end to end
• delivering advisory and ER support: guiding managers and employees through policies and procedures, performance and absence management, and first-stage case resolution
• driving projects and continuous improvement: owning small projects from start to finish, contributing to larger team initiatives, and using feedback to sharpen our processes
• keeping on top of the day-to-day activities that keep the people function running, including:
  • facilitating inductions, exit interviews, and surveys
  • managing internal communications, share schemes, and ad hoc reporting requests
  • supporting reward processes and wider team activities

You'll enjoy variety in your role and be comfortable managing projects alongside day to day work and ad-hoc requests. Self driven, you'll take full ownership of work, taking action to overcome any barriers to delivery. You'll enjoy working with and supporting people, with a warm, engaging and inclusive approach to all that you do.

Ideally you’ll have:

• CIPD Level 5 qualification in Human Resource Management (or equivalent experience)
• Experience advising managers on people issues or policies
• Knowledge and experience administering various employee lifecycle processes
• High level of computer literacy and ability to pick up new systems quickly

Bonus points for🏆

• Employee relations case management experience
• Previous experience in a People Consultant position
• CIPD level 7 qualification in Human Resource Management

We believe in a strong work-life balance, we don’t work long hours (35 hour working week), and we have a fabulous Edinburgh HQ expertly designed for collaboration including high-quality A/V equipment to provide a great experience for distributed teams.

At Free Agent, we support each other and operate a no-blame culture. Our mindset is: work hard, be nice to people, and the rest will sort itself out!

Work pattern for this role

This is a permanent, full time role (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm).

This role will be based in our Edinburgh office, however there will be an opportunity to adopt hybrid working, under an agreed pattern of 2 days from the office and 3 days at home each week. Working from home is second nature to us as we have been championing remote working for years.

The salary band for this role is £28,000 - £34,000 per annum
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We're open to hiring someone at the Junior People Consultant or People Consultant level for this role, so the actual salary offered will depend on experience.

We pride ourselves on creating a fantastic place to work, with benefits and perks including (but not limited to!) the following:

• 33 days holiday (and an extra day for each year you’re with us)
• Flexible/hybrid working
• Private health care
• Life assurance
• 5% matched pension contributions
• Summer 4 day weeks (giving you 8 additional days off!)
• Buy-as-you-earn share schemes
• Sabbatical leave (unpaid)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellness webinars
• Focused learning time and learning budgets
• Volunteering day

Find out more about our benefits package here!