People Advisor

Role Overview

• Play a crucial role in driving high performance across the company by guiding and empowering our leaders to build highly engaged, effective teams.
• Empower managers with practical leadership support, helping them confidently handle everything from career development to sensitive performance conversations without relying on a static HR playbook.
• Embed yourself within different business areas to ensure that our culture remains consistent, healthy, and high-performing as we continue to grow.
• Solve complex team challenges using core principles and common sense, giving you the autonomy to deliver practical outcomes rather than getting bogged down in rigid policies.
• Identify opportunities to simplify or automate administrative workflows, directly collaborating with the wider PeopleOps team to make life easier for managers and employees alike.
• Coach and support managers across the full employee lifecycle, providing pragmatic advice on performance management, ER issues, and team dynamics.
• Spend time within different business areas to ensure Gearset’s values are felt daily and that the employee experience remains consistent across the company.
• Spot opportunities to simplify or automate people processes to make life easier for both managers and employees, collaborating with PeopleOps on improvements.
• Work with the wider people team on manager enablement, making sure managers have the tools, training, and guidance they need to be great leaders.
• Support the People Ops Partner on operational projects and providing absence coverage across partnering and PeopleOps.

Requirements

• Proven experience handling employee relations and performance-related conversations with exceptional judgment and clear, straightforward communication.
• A solid understanding of UK employment law and the practical ability to apply it adaptably within a fast-paced, commercial environment.
• A natural coaching and influencing style that allows you to build genuine trust quickly and challenge stakeholders at all levels with confidence.
• A proactive, pragmatic approach to problem-solving, with the strategic awareness to see how daily people initiatives link back to the company's wider goals.
• Absolute discretion, psychological maturity, and a high level of integrity when dealing with private or sensitive information.
• A Level 7 CIPD qualification, or equivalent experience in a similar professional environment (nice to have).
• Experience utilising HR systems and data analysis to understand trends and streamline everyday administrative processes (nice to have).

Benefits

• Generous personal development budget for courses, conferences, or whatever is useful to your professional development in the role of up to £1500 per year
• Top end hardware provided
• Opportunity to join our Long Term Incentive Plan
• Free lunch in the office
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy an extra 5 each year)
• Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5%)
• Bupa health care
• Life Insurance & critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefits