HR Advisor FTC

Ready to shape culture, drive people outcomes and be at the heart of a fast‑paced fashion operation? Do you thrive on giving confident, commercial HR advice while being visible on the floor? Looking for a varied HR generalist role where your impact is genuinely felt?

Here at GXO, we’re looking for a HR Advisor to join our site supporting a prestigious fashion retailer. Reporting to the HR Manager, you’ll play a key role in delivering a high-quality, generalist HR service across the operation. Acting as a trusted partner to managers, you’ll provide expert guidance on employee relations matters, support engagement initiatives and coach leaders to build capability. This is a varied role where you’ll balance operational priorities with longer-term people initiatives, contributing to a positive, high-performing workplace culture.

This role is being offered on a 12-month FTC basis. You will work Monday to Friday, 08:00 till 16:00 or 09:00 till 17:00

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £33,000 per annum and 31 days annual leave (inc bank holidays). Your benefits package includes flexible dental insurance plans, a company sponsored pension scheme, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You’ll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more! 

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Provide expert advice to managers and colleagues on employee relations, absence, performance, discipline and grievance matters, ensuring consistency and fairness
• Contribute to engagement activities, HR projects and continuous improvement initiatives
• Manage a varied ER caseload, ensuring compliance with employment law, policies and best practice
• Support payroll processes, ensuring accuracy and compliance across the function
• Lead absence management, long‑term sickness and return‑to‑work processes, driving initiatives to reduce absence levels

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Experience in a similar HR Advisor or generalist role, ideally within a fast‑paced operational or logistics environment
• Able to build trusted relationships at all levels and challenge with credibility and professionalism
• Confident advising on policies, employee relations and change management, with excellent attention to detail
• Experience or exposure to payroll processes
• CIPD Level 5 qualification or working towards this

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

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.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. Review GXO's candidate privacy statement here.