Description We are hiring a Regional HR Advisor, to join our HR team. Working alongside your HR Business Partner, you will play a key part in supporting, leading and delivering all HR activity within your retail region. Your day-to-day responsibilities will be to provide first level advice and support to store managers with people management activities such as probations, AWOLs, new starter process, investigations, disciplinary, grievances etc You will drive the ethos of a positive employee experience through the development of communication and inclusive engagement activities. Working in collaboration with the talent development and retail regional management team, you'll work to establish succession planning and talent growth across the business. You will need to ensure documentation is updated correctly on the HR systems, support store managers with note taking and maintain high and consistent standards. The Team We’re a fairly new HR team and we have big plans which you will play a key part of. The wider HR team consists of L&D and Recruitment departments who you will work alongside of too. We’re made up of HR Business Partners, HR Advisors & HR Admins who support 3 areas of the business – Head Office, The Distribution Centre and Retail. Our focus as a department is our people and our vision is to nurture and develop a people centred and team orientated culture, where your voice is heard, and you feel valued every day. This is such an exciting time to join us, we’re looking forward to having you support the business in the day-to-day aspects but to also get involved in all the great things we have planned for our people at Footasylum. Why Footasylum? We are one of the leading omni-channel retailers across the UK, but more than that we are a brilliant place to work. We value you and your development. We have loads of examples of people moving upwards, across to other departments and given training to excel their personal and professional skills. Our aim to create a fun environment, where your success is paramount to ours and your are given the right tools, support and platform to achieve your goals. About You Ideally, you will be a HR Advisor with experience of working within a retail or hospitality environment. You’ll be inquisitive, you’ll have a passion for people and you’ll be an excellent communicator. You will be comfortable dealing within a fast paced HR environment dealing with a high volume ER cases. HR for Footasylum is about the people, which for us means that you will be someone who can build strong relationships, influence senior stakeholders and provide thoughtful and constructive feedback. Sound judgement is a must, with the ability to remain objective and pragmatic. You will have a proven ability to develop successful working relationships with senior stakeholders and the ability to balance a coaching and challenging style to drive great outcomes Being confident with IT and Microsoft Office will allow you to work on projects, communicate effectively through written and verbal channels and help deliver projects and presentations. Diversity We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are providing service to candidates and the wider business. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences and backgrounds. Recruitment Process With the COVID-19 situation beginning to abate, our teams are all working a in a hybrid mix of office and home working, adjusting to this new way of working as best we can - and as such we’ll help make the interview process as clear and stress-free as possible, giving you the same opportunity as if we were meeting face to face. We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit we’ll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role, and to see if we’re a good fit for you. We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel that this is the opportunity for you. Please note, this is not a remote role and our expectation is that you will be able to attend Head Office in a hybrid way, in Greater Manchester.