People Advisor - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Trainline

Trainline

Verified Company

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Company Description
We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Our purpose is our momentum. It makes us feel good because we know we're doing good. As we lead the way to a greener future, we do it together. We're all about connections - with each other, with our customers and with the world. Just as our platform brings the world together, it's our ambition that connects us. We motivate each other to go beyond our limits, to experiment, to fail and to always grow.

With over 110 million visits every month to our platform and £4.3 billion in net ticket sales, we're always innovating and making moves towards our final destination — a world where travel is as simple, seamless, and affordable as it should be.

And we couldn't do any of it without our incredible people driving us forward.

Today, we're a FTSE 250 company that's proudly home to more than 1000 Trainliners from over 60 nationalities across offices in London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh, Berlin, Madrid and Brussels.

It's this diversity that energises us and makes us stronger, helping us to achieve amazing things.

With our sights firmly set on further European growth, there is no better time to jump on board this high-speed train and be part of our continued success.

We are looking for a People Advisor, with previous experience gained in a fast-paced environment, ideally within the E-commerce/Tech or Customer Contact Services environment.

This role has been newly created to support all Corporate and Commercial functions which gives a really exciting variety of teams to partner with and develop your business partnering career.

This is an incredible opportunity to take that next step in your career and work with a brilliant team of business partners and wider people team who will support you and give you space to really bring value in your role.

This position will sit within the People Team and be based in our Edinburgh Office, business partnering and supporting across the corporate functions within Trainline; with a secondary focus supporting our People Operations Team with any local support.

The skill set for success in this role is a professional, pragmatic, and customer-focused HR generalist, with a strong background working on Employee Relations in a complex and fast

Responsibilities

Business Partnering

First point of contact for each of the employee lifecycle touch points across the functions that you support individually and supporting the Senior Business Partners with appropriate cases in their functions.
Having a very handson approach to get under the surface of your area and bring proactive ideas for how you support your managers. Thinking outside the box and challenging the norm, while bringing your managers on the journey.
Support and advise managers on a variety of employee relations cases (for example performance management, redundancy, disciplinary, grievance and appeal meetings); escalating highly complex cases as required
Act as first line of support for dealing with and responding to queries for your function managers (for example employment law, flexible working, leavers, maternity, paternity, grievances, disciplinaries and performance management)
Coach People Managers through effective appraisal reviews, and training on the system used where appropriate
Proactively manage longterm or repetitive absence including occupational health assessments and group income protection policy cases.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of the HR function owning and contributing to the wider team projects and identifying areas for improvement in your areas.
Driving engagement across your areas and the Edinburgh Office, working with the engagement committees and Leadership Team.
Build and maintain effective relationships to support all stakeholders

People Operations Support

Carry out exit interviews where we have leavers identified in the Edinburgh Office, sharing insights with other business partners and identifying trends across the company with the wider People Operations Team.
Where we have new starters in Edinburgh, support with ensuring their first morning onboarding takes place smoothly by making sure they are in the right place at the right time (this will be ad hoc, we don't have new starters every week).
Understanding of the systems we use for performance management, engagement surveys, HRIS and L&D to help with first line questions and administration.
Ad hoc projects that support the wider people team.

Qualifications

We're looking for a team player with a growth mindset and a passion for People, you will have experience in a HR/People team either business partnering or in an operational role.

You'll be a self-starter with a helpful, people-orientated demeanour who is always willing to support our Trainliners. Super-strong organisation and interpersonal skills are essential, and you'll also bring the ability to w