If you are looking for a role where you can help shape the future of an exciting business and be part of a collaborative HR team where you can learn and develop, read on.

Position Summary

As our HR Advisor, you’ll be the central point of contact for HR matters and oversee the day-to-day operational HR activity for the business unit. Working alongside the HR Shared Services team, you’ll work collaboratively to support the local and wider HR teams to help ensure that a professional and valued HR service is delivered. You'll be based in our Snodland office, Kent on a hybrid basis.

The role involves supporting managers and employees with first class HR advice on current legislation and best practice, supporting them with people development and adding value through improved attrition, presenteeism, engagement, and productivity. There is a requirement to manage ER casework and absenteeism, support the updating of company policies and procedures, and ad-hoc project work in line with Group values and the overall objectives of the business.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Provide professional advice and guidance on HR matters in line with Company and Group policy and procedure.

• Manage all ER casework including long term sickness, disciplinary and grievances, in collaboration with the HRBP.

• Support the quarterly staff survey process, building engagement with the workforce and analysing data to provide recommendations for improvements.

• Monitor and manage staff absence data, advising managers on corrective actions for improvement and working with Occupational Health to ensure compliance and best practice is followed.

• Support managers through the annual performance review process to ensure deadlines are met, and that consistency and fairness is upheld.

• Monitor shared mailboxes and respond to queries where necessary to support a timely HR provision.
• Create monthly reports and dashboards from the internal systems and databases to support projects and inform decision making, giving recommendations where necessary.

• Keep up to date with changes in HR regulations and legislation, ensuring compliance with statutory legal processes and procedures.

• Support with ad-hoc people changes such as promotions, job changes and payroll queries in collaboration with the relevant manager.
• Manage staff records within our benefits platforms, and supporting changes or updates as required.

• Manage on/offboarding processes to ensure a best possible experience for employees.

• Ensure GDPR principles are upheld, and advise and guide managers with best practice in their working environments and relevant meetings.

• Assess skills gaps in the workforce and coordinate training in liaison with the HRBP.
• Monitor shared mailboxes and respond to queries where necessary to support a timely HR provision.

• Liaison with shared services, supporting with recruitment and HR administration as required.

About You

At Swegon, our values are Customer Empathy, Trust, and Commitment. We expect our employees to live and breathe our values in their everyday work, and support those around us to do the same. As such, we value those who are highly adaptable, proactive and positive in dealing with work matters, as priorities can change quickly across tight deadlines, and those who are highly tactful, showing empathy, discretion and confidentiality at all times.

An experienced HR professional qualified to at least CIPD Level 3, our ideal candidate will have a collaborative mindset with awareness of their own objectives and those of the wider teams. We are looking for someone who is comfortable with providing sound HR advice and guidance to managers, managing ER casework, and organising and planning their own workload.

Essential Experience & Qualifications

• CIPD Level 3 or equivalent experience

• Experience of advising and guiding managers and providing HR expertise and support.

• Experience of managing ER casework, including long term absences, disciplinary and grievances.

• A good understanding of HR practices and UK employment law.

• An understanding of GDPR principles, and handling confidential data and documentation.

• Ability to liaise and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders both locally and at Group level.

• Ability to work within tight deadlines and managing conflicting priorities.

• Ability to analyse, interpret, and present HR data in forms, tables, graphs and spreadsheets.

• Ability to network effectively and build positive relationships across an organisation.

• Excellent understanding of IT, with experience of using HR systems and Microsoft packages, specifically Excel and Word.
• We are looking for someone who has: Fluent proficiency in spoken and written English.

Desirable Experience & Qualifications

• CIPD Level 5 or studying towards.

• Experience of working in a standalone role within manufacturing.
• An excellent understanding of HR practices and UK employment law.

We offer 
At Swegon, we work to create the world's best indoor climate that makes people thrive and feel good inside. We have ambitious goals in our sustainability efforts, in offering the most energy-efficient products, promoting gender equality, and becoming carbon neutral, and we have clear transparency in our work. We offer exciting challenges in a global environment with competent colleagues and a culture characterized by our values; "Customer Empathy, Trust, and Commitment," which permeate everything we do and are the basis for the decisions we make and how we interact with each other. At Swegon, we have an open and flexible organizational culture with short decision-making processes, plenty of development opportunities, and we care about you being able to balance your work with your personal life. We place great emphasis on personal qualities, welcome applicants with different backgrounds, and strive for diversity and gender equality.

About Swegon Group
Swegon Group, owned by the Stockholm Stock Exchange-listed Investment AB Latour, is a market-leading provider of a healthy indoor climate, with solutions for ventilation, heating, cooling, and climate optimization, as well as connected services and technical expertise. Swegon has subsidiaries and distributors worldwide and 17 production units in Europe, North America, and India. The company has approximately 3000 employees and had a turnover of approximately SEK 6 billion in 2022.

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