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Birmingham - James House
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About The Role

We are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone.

Role: People Advisor – Operations & Analytics

Location: Birmingham (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary Package: Competitive salary plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year

Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm, Monday – Friday
 
Interview Process: 2-stage process

Why SCC?

  • An inclusive workplace
  • Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
  • Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
  • Career development and life-long learning opportunities
  • Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company
Role purpose:
The People Advisor – Operations & Analytics provides Tier 1 HR support and delivers high‑quality operational services across the full colleague lifecycle. The role ensures queries are resolved quickly and accurately, maintains strong data quality and reporting, and supports key HR processes including family friendly, probation, benefits and manager enablement.  It contributes to a positive colleague experience, identifies opportunities for improvement, and works closely with our Romania team to deliver consistent, efficient and compliant People Operations services.
 
Key responsibilities:

Tier 1 HR Support

  • Provide first‑line support on HR policies, systems and processes.
  • Triage and support low‑complexity ER matters including performance, sickness, probation and conduct - ensuring cases are progressed efficiently and consistently.
  • Maintain service levels by resolving queries promptly and meeting agreed HR SLAs.
  • Produce clear, accurate and timely meeting notes for formal discussions to support prompt follow‑up and next steps.
  • Manage and support family‑friendly processes (e.g., maternity, adoption, shared parental leave), ensuring timely and accurate progression.

 

Data Quality, Reporting & Analysis

  • Maintain accurate, highquality people data across D365, Eploy and other HR systems to ensure consistency and compliance.
  • Maintain the People Operations reporting cycle across weekly, monthly, quarterly, bi‑annual and annual deadlines, ensuring all reports meet agreed SLAs.
  • Analyse people data trends to inform SLT decision‑making.
  • Identify opportunities for reporting automation and process improvement.
  • Collect, track and maintain engagement and lifecycle metrics, assuring data completeness and quality across D365/Eploy.
  • Produce accurate, insight‑led reports (engagement, lifecycle, headcount, absence, turnover) to inform SLT decision‑making.
Process, Policy & Operations Support
  • Maintain People Operations SOPs, templates and checklists to support changes driven by legislation and process updates.
  • Maintain and update knowledge bases/FAQs and guidance to support colleague and manager self‑service.
  • Provide operational support for benefit and reward activities, including renewals, process related tasks, provider changes and usage analysis.
  • Effectively deliver regular manager induction and refresher sessions to strengthen capability and self‑service.
  • Monitor training effectiveness through attendance, feedback and performance measures.
  • Identify common knowledge or capability gaps and feed insights into future training and content.
  • Develop and maintain toolkits and resources that enable confident manager self‑service.
  • Support queries not covered by standard enablement materials, capturing feedback and recommending improvements to lifecycle processes.
 Colleague Experience & Enablement
  • Support initiatives that improve colleague lifecycle moments, including probation, family‑friendly processes, wellbeing and the exit experience.
  • Effectively deliver drop-in colleague training sessions to strengthen capability and self‑service around the basics.
  • Contribute to culture, belonging, wellbeing, inclusion, volunteering and wider social value initiatives.
  • Gather and summarise colleague feedback through exit interviews, surveys and other channels to inform engagement and improvement actions.
  • Support a positive and compliant probation experience by overseeing the process, ensuring reviews are completed on time, and issuing timely, accurate confirmation letters.

Continuous Improvement

  • Recommend enhancements to People lifecycle processes based on colleague and manager feedback and training insights.
  • Identify and address internal operational inefficiencies, supporting automation and system enhancements that drive a smoother People Operations experience.
  • Support change management for new systems, processes or policy updates, including assisting with communications, documentation updates and training / adoption.
  • Monitor people trends and share insights with PBPs to support proactive people strategies.

Offshore (Romania) Collaboration

  • Maintain clear alignment between the UK and Romania teams, coordinating tasks, shared priorities and day‑to‑day workflow support.
  • Deliver effective knowledge transfer, documentation and training for transitioned processes to ensure operational continuity.
  •  Carry out UK‑side quality checks (e.g., redundancy calculations, ELI data) to ensure compliance and maintain accurate service delivery.

Strategic Project Support

  •  Provide coordination and delivery support for organisational change, engagement programmes, policy updates and manager capability initiatives.
Skills and experience:
  • Generalist HR experience across core People processes, including policies, HR systems, and family‑friendly processes.
  • Demonstratable experience to effectively handle low‑complexity employee relations issues, such as informal performance concerns, absence management, probation issues, and non‑complex conduct matters.
  • Proven ability to act as a first point of contact for HR queries, providing clear, accurate and timely guidance.
  • Strong analytical skills, with experience collecting, tracking, and reporting people metrics (e.g., engagement, lifecycle, ER trends).
  • Intermediate knowledge of MS Excel, including confident use of formulas, lookup functions (e.g. VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP), filters and pivot tables to support reporting, data quality checks and routine people metrics.
  • Ability to prepare high‑quality reports, interpret HR data, and produce actionable insights for senior stakeholders.
  • In Depth knowledge of HR systems and supporting platforms (e.g., D365, Eploy, Power BI) with a strong focus on data accuracy, compliance, and quality assurance.
  • Demonstratable ability to deliver and support manager‑facing learning, such as inductions, toolkits, or capability development resources.
  • Experience providing administrative support for surveys, feedback mechanisms, and colleague experience initiatives.
  • Demonstrable involvement in continuous improvement, automation initiatives, or process optimisation within People teams.
  •  Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) with the ability to explain HR processes clearly to colleagues and managers.
  • Strong organisation and time‑management skills with a demonstrable  ability to prioritise workload effectively, able to manage SLAs, reporting schedules and concurrent workstreams while balancing competing demands and deadlines without compromising accuracy or service quality.
  • High attention to detail, particularly in data processing, reporting, and meeting note‑taking.
  • Ability to build effective working relationships across People functions, managers, and offshore teams.
  • Problem‑solving mindset, able to triage issues, identify root causes, and escalate appropriately.
  • Comfortable working autonomously with minimal guidance while contributing to team-wide improvements.
  • Confident facilitator, able to lead discussions, manage group dynamics and adapt delivery style to suit different audiences within settings such as manager workshops, employee engagement and manager feedback sessions
  •  Process focused, with a strong focus on consistency, accuracy and adherence to agreed HR procedures, SLAs and quality standards.

About Us

SCC is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.

We are an equal opportunities employer

SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.

 
If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the SCC Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.
 
Diversity & Inclusion at SCC - https://www.scc.com/diversity-and-inclusion/
 
 

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