Senior HR Advisor

Davies Turner have an exciting opportunity for a Senior HR Advisor to join the team.

Location: Coleshill, West Midlands

Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 (pro rata), Profit Related Pay and Benefits

Job Type: Full time / Consideration to part time applications

About Us:

Davies Turner Plc is a British based multimodal freight forwarder specialising in logistics, e-commerce and warehousing. As one of the largest independent freight forwarding companies in the UK we manage freight from around the world, by road and rail, through the air and across the oceans. The business remains family owned and was founded in 1870 with 19 branches across the U.K. Our turnover is in excess of £250 million and rapidly growing with nearly 1,000 colleagues.

A new opportunity has arisen for a Senior HR Advisor based at our Coleshill office in the West Midlands with occasional travel to our other sites.

Senior HR Advisor - The role:

The Senior HR Advisor will provide support to line managers, shaping and influencing their approach to people matters, supporting the management of and pro-actively resolving all aspects of the employee life cycle.

Being a self-starter, you will relish the variety that this role offers and be looking to develop and further enhance your HR career.

Senior HR Advisor - Key Responsibilities:

- Providing pragmatic HR solutions that meet specific business needs to ensure the consistent and effective management of teams

- Ensuring the maintenance of accurate HR systems and metrics to facilitate the full functionality of the HR Information System, managing and resolving day to day queries in relation to our HR Information System (Cascade Iris)

- General administrative support in relation to the whole employee life cycle, including recruitment, employee benefits, and training and development

Senior HR Advisor – You:

- Be CIPD part qualified/ qualified

- A minimum of 3- years’ HR experience in the commercial private sector

- Strong organisational skills

- Ability to maintain excellent delivery, quality performance, accuracy and attention to detail

- Excellent oral and written communications skills to convey information clearly and effectively, together with solid listening skills to gather information for understanding

- High levels of IT literacy, including Excel, PowerPoint and HRIS (Cascade Iris)

- Knowledge of how to leverage social media to attract talent to the business

- A proven successful track record of HR operational delivery within a logistics, freight forwarding or similar environment would be an advantage

Senior HR Advisor - Benefits*:

- Up to 25 days holidays plus Bank Holidays

- Life cover

- Profit related pay

- Defined contribution pension scheme

- Discounted store/shopping benefit scheme

- Private healthcare

- Car parking

- Employee Assistance Programme

- Industry recognised training

* Some benefits are subject to a qualifying period

The closing date for this position is 3rd May 2024.

To submit your CV for this exciting Senior HR Advisor opportunity, please click ‘Apply’ now!

Davies Turner is committed to equality of opportunity and this underpins our employment and recruitment procedures. We use objective, job-related criteria when making appointment decisions and our selection criteria is based on skills, experience, qualifications and an ability to do the job.

Please note, applicants must have the right to work in the UK to apply as we are unable to sponsor work permits.