People Advisor

We are commercial property specialists operating across the UK. At Bruntwood, we're committed to offering more than just outstanding office, coworking, retail and lab spaces. Everything we do is tied into our vision of building vibrant communities, whilst providing businesses with the support and expertise they need to grow.

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The team and ways of working:

We’re based in the heart of Manchester City Centre, Union overlooking Albert Square. We’re a team of 20 that cover all People & Talent activity across all the Bruntwood Group including subsidiaries that overall account for around 1,200 colleagues.

We’re a close team that focuses on driving our values and supporting each other to deliver effective practices and an agile way of working that adapts well to change/growth.

Job purpose:

Your role, as People Advisor, is to be a champion of our culture and values, ensuring we create a high-performance environment where everyone can contribute their best work, develop to their full potential, and deliver on our business goals.

The role is broad, fast-paced and hands-on. Whether you’re advising managers to lead their teams in the right way, supporting colleagues or navigating and resolving employee relations issues. As an analytical and curious thinker, you’ll keep your ear to the ground, delivering a brilliant service that shapes our colleague's experience and enhances business outcomes.

What you’ll be doing:

• You’ll support the colleague life cycle and key people practices from onboarding to offboarding to ensure the delivery of a seamless people experience.
• You’ll provide high quality data and reporting, translating people metrics into actionable business insights for the wider team and stakeholders.
• As our people expert you’ll manage ER cases, advising managers on policy and process, with a natural coaching style that balances empathy and fair treatment with legal compliance, policy, and commercial risk.
• You will support the People Partners on TUPE, Organisational Change and Transformation activity.
• As a generalist, you’ll be comfortable to turn your hand to support our wider services including Recruitment, Payroll, Engagement, Wellbeing and Learning & Development.
• You’ll support the People Partners in implementing people plans - particularly around driving actions from the colleague engagement survey that really make a difference to life at Bruntwood.
• You’ll help to develop and deliver workshops that will inform, inspire and upskill our people managers, building their confidence to handle people matters independently.
• You’ll constantly review our policies and procedures, keeping them fit for purpose and ahead of changing employment law, while ensuring they remain practical, accessible, and aligned with our culture
• You’ll work with the wider People & Talent Team to deliver products that encourage our people to take ownership of their own performance, careers and learning, by providing them with a range of different options, resources and experiences.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience of working at People Advisor level
• Experience of managing varied workloads, reacting to case work and queries efficiently as well as proactively engaging in project work
• Experience creating and delivering training workshops

We really believe that if you’re brilliant to work with, you deserve brilliant things in return:

• 28 days holiday plus you get your Birthday off work - and if that’s not enough you can also buy & sell holidays too
• Company bonus - paid annually
• 24 hours a year volunteer time - there are endless opportunities for you to get involved in supporting the causes that matter most to you
• Sabbatical of up to 12 months so you can take a career break after five years with us
• Healthcare cash plan for all colleagues, so you can claim back medical expenses like optical, dentist & physiotherapy. We also offer free private healthcare cover on an opt in basis too
• Life assurance cover for all colleagues
• Up to 8% matched pension scheme
• Discounts & cashback at leading retailers
• Enhanced maternity / shared parental leave - 26 weeks fully paid leave
• Interest free loans to pursue your passions and apply for up to £2000 towards learning a new skill

On our careers page you’ll find our benefits calculator, where you can select what benefits you’d use to calculate the savings you’d make. In addition to what to expect within the role and your benefits, it’s good to know that you’ll be working for a business that gives back - The Oglesby Charitable Trust has donated more than £30m since it started out in 2001. Supporting charities across Arts and Culture, Education, Environment, Medical Research and Social & Health Inequality.

We’ll do our best to get back to you within a week of your application, however if it has been longer than this please feel free to email talent@bruntwood.co.uk for an update.