HR Advisor

As an experienced HR advisor, you will play a key role in partnering with senior leaders to drive organisational performance, engagement, and culture across a fast-paced and commercially focused business. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will provide expert guidance on a broad range of people matters, helping managers build high-performing teams while ensuring compliance with employment legislation, company policy, and HR best practice.

This is a highly visible and varied generalist role, offering the opportunity to take ownership of complex employee relations cases, support organisational change initiatives, influence people strategy, and contribute to the continuous development of our HR offering. Working closely with stakeholders at all levels, you will have the autonomy to make a tangible impact while developing your career within a dynamic and ambitious organisation.

The successful candidate will bring strong generalist HR experience, sound employment law knowledge, and the confidence to challenge, influence, and coach managers in a commercially pragmatic way.

Responsibilities include

• Building great relationships with employees and managers by understanding their challenges from a people perspective and coaching and supporting them in employment matters
• Educating, motivating, and empowering managers to support and engage their teams
• Advising senior managers on a range of ER cases in line with company policy and procedure and relevant legislation
• Educating and empowering managers to successfully manage and support their teams
• Advising and guiding on attendance, performance, wellbeing, engagement, development, and retention
• Overseeing the employee lifecycle, including preparing new starter contracts, processing reference requests, maintaining employee records, and managing exits
• Processing family leave entitlement
• Assisting with payroll preparation

About you

• 5+ years' experience in a HR Adviser or equivalent generalist HR role
• Proven experience managing complex Employee Relations cases and advising managers on people matters
• Strong knowledge of employment law with the confidence to provide pragmatic, risk-based advice
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and challenge at all levels
• Ability to work autonomously, managing a varied caseload and competing priorities
• Experience owning HR processes end-to-end, delivering thorough and timely outcomes
• Sound judgement with the ability to identify and mitigate legal, financial and reputational risk
• Strong administration, organisational and documentation skills with excellent attention to detail
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment and must able to commute to our Chiswick Head Office

We offer

• Competitive salary package
• Hybrid working model - 2 days working from home once settled into role plus the option of one additional day working from a Foxtons office
• Comprehensive, ongoing training and development programme
• Great career opportunities
• Exposure to diverse aspects of the business
• Vibrant company culture including paid-for social events
• Diversity and inclusion networks
• One paid work day a year to volunteer for a charity of your choice
• Wellbeing package including enhanced sick pay, free confidential counselling helpline, Mental Health First Aiders, and access to a coaching platform
• Enhanced parental policies, including generous shared parental leave
• Subsidised staff café and bar

About Us

At Foxtons, we’re famous for setting the standard in property. We do this by hiring brilliant people to help our customers find their dream home or unlock the true value of their property investment. Over the last 30 years we’ve built a network of over 60 branches and a strong operational infrastructure that enables our teams to achieve the highest standards in delivering exceptional service to our customers. Award-winning training ensures our teams have the knowledge and expertise that our customers expect from us, whist our market-leading technology empowers all our staff to provide the best customer experience possible.

Our stunning headquarters in based at Chiswick Business Park which is built around a lake and offers weekly events such as food festivals, zip-lining, and beach volleyball in the summer.