HR Advisor, 4 Month FTC

Are you a trusted HR Advisor who builds strong relationships, delivers high‑quality HR support, and guides managers to follow best practice?

Do you want to play a key role in shaping the People plan, managing ER cases, coaching leaders, and using data insights to drive real organisational impact? If so, we at GXO have an FTC opportunity for you!

Join us as our HR Advisor on a 4 Month FTC, supporting our Sainsburys Argos customer in Basildon.

This is a full time, 4-month FTC opportunity working Monday to Friday (flexible between the hours of 8.00 to 17.00).

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £35,303.42 per annum, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, life assurance and access to our benefits platform, including retail discounts.

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Provide high‑quality HR advice and comprehensive generalist People support
• Manage the full ER caseload, ensuring efficient guidance aligned with legislation and company policies
• Build strong, credible relationships across the organisation, influencing managers to adopt best‑practice approaches
• Support managers in interpreting and applying company policies, procedures, and local agreements
• Contribute to delivering the annual People plan, including MI analysis and coaching to support management development

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Demonstrable experience providing pragmatic, tailored HR advice, including strong ER expertise and solid knowledge of UK employment law (CIPD Level 3 or above beneficial)
• Skilled in supporting managers through a range of employee relations issues with confidence and professionalism
• Strong IT proficiency across Word, Excel and PowerPoint, with the ability to compile and interpret People‑related data
• Proactive, collaborative and objective, with excellent interpersonal skills and a natural ability to solve problems and work effectively with others

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GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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