People Advisor

Leicester City Centre | Permanent | Site-Based | Monday–Friday
Salary: Competitive / To Be Confirmed

Macildowie are working with this client based in Leicester to recruit an experienced People Advisor into a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

This is a varied, hands-on generalist People role where you'll be at the heart of the operation, supporting managers and colleagues across the full employee lifecycle. You'll provide pragmatic, commercially focused advice while helping to create a positive colleague experience and ensuring people remain central to business decisions.

Working closely with the People Partner and wider People team, you'll act as a trusted first point of contact for managers, taking ownership of employee relations activity while coaching leaders to build their confidence and capability.

The Role

You'll provide day-to-day People advice and guidance across a broad range of matters, including:

• Managing employee relations casework including absence, disciplinary, grievance and performance matters

• Coaching and advising line managers on People policies, procedures and best practice

• Supporting recruitment, interviewing, onboarding and exit processes

• Supporting organisational change and consultation activity

• Working with managers to improve colleague engagement, performance and retention

• Supporting talent management, succession planning and colleague development

• Promoting colleague wellbeing, inclusion and positive workplace behaviours

• Producing, analysing and interpreting People data and metrics to support business decisions

• Supporting temporary and agency worker processes

• Helping ensure People processes, systems and records remain accurate, compliant and audit-ready

• Supporting internal and external audits where required

• Working collaboratively with Learning & Development colleagues to develop manager and colleague capability

• Contributing to wider People projects and the delivery of the People plan

What We're Looking For

You'll be an experienced HR/People professional who is comfortable operating in a busy, operational environment and building credible relationships with managers at all levels.

You'll ideally bring:

• Previous generalist HR/People Advisory experience

• Strong employee relations case management experience

• Experience advising and coaching line managers

• Good working knowledge of UK employment legislation and HR best practice

• Confidence handling disciplinary, grievance, absence and performance matters

• Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills

• A pragmatic and commercially aware approach

• Confidence working with People data and management information

• CIPD Level 3 or equivalent experience

• Experience within manufacturing, FMCG, food production, logistics or another fast-paced operational environment would be particularly advantageous

This is a fantastic opportunity for a People Advisor who enjoys being visible within the business, building strong relationships and making a tangible difference to both managers and colleagues.

If you're looking for a broad People role where you can take ownership, develop your experience and work as part of a collaborative People team, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today or contact Macildowie for a confidential conversation.