People Advisor

The Role

As a People Advisor, you'll play a key role in shaping a great employee experience for MVFers at different stages of the employee lifecycle. Armed with strong employment law knowledge, business acumen, and interpersonal skills, you will be a trusted advisor to your client groups.

Responsibilities

People Advisory

• Mentor and guide the People Coordinator, with the opportunity to line manage them, and ensure KPIs and SLAs are met.

• Act autonomously as a trusted advisor to designated client groups within MVF, drawing on support and guidance from your People Partner when needed.

• Work closely with your People Partner to ensure joined-up, consistent support for shared client groups, and support them on strategic and wider organisational design and development projects.

• Work closely with key stakeholders to maintain excellent operational rhythms.

• Support the delivery of DE&I and wellbeing initiatives across client groups.

• Liaise with and provide people support to colleagues in our US and EMEA locations.

Employee Lifecycle

• Support onboarding and induction for new starters, ensuring a smooth and positive first experience.

• Manage the offboarding process, including exit interviews and leaver administration.

People Relations

• Advise and coach line managers on probation, performance management, sickness, disciplinary, and grievance processes, advising and coaching line managers throughout.

• Provide necessary training and feedback to managers on people processes.

• Support employees through family-friendly processes (e.g. maternity, paternity etc), and help identify opportunities to enhance and evolve these policies and processes over time.

• Manage complex employee relations issues and offer policy advice to managers and employees.

• Assist in reviewing and updating people policies to ensure ongoing legal compliance and best practice.

Learning and Development

• Own the planning and scheduling of the annual People training calendar, balancing internal delivery with external provision.

• Manage Docebo (our E-learning platform), to ensure all employees are compliant with mandatory training.This will include updating existing e-learning modules and working with the People Partners to develop new modules where required.

• Help source, brief, and manage relationships with external L&D providers and facilitators.

• Design and deliver own training sessions on core People topics (e.g. manager essentials, policy updates, employment law awareness) to build internal capability.

• Assist in the coordination and delivery of internal training events run by others across MVF.

• Contribute to assessment processes for internal developmental programmes.

• Gather and act on feedback to continuously improve the training calendar's relevance and impact.

Systems and Processes

• Oversee the development of functionality in HiBob (our HRIS), supported by the People Coordinator.

• Support the People Coordinator with TriNet and other Employer of Record (EOR) systems for our US and APAC populations.

• Continuously identify opportunities for process automation.

Compliance and Reporting

• Ensure operational compliance for standard employment processes like right-to-work checks and visa renewals.

• Generate high-level monthly reports and manage data integrity.

• Handle employee data in line with MVF's data protection obligations.

What Success Looks Like

• Proactive problem-solving rather than reactive troubleshooting.

• Positive feedback and high satisfaction from client groups.

• Timely resolution of employee relations casework.

• A well-run, well-received annual training calendar.

• Successful KPI and SLA achievement by the People Coordinator.

Our Ideal MVFer

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Confident designing and facilitating People training sessions.

• Resilient, especially in managing sensitive and challenging people issues.

• Proficient in UK employment law.

• Experience working with or supporting US and/or EMEA teams, ideally including exposure to Employer of Record (EOR) arrangements.

• Analytical, highly organised, and detail-oriented, with strong HRIS/Excel reporting skills.

• Experience working with HiBob HRIS is preferable but not essential.

• Experience line managing or coaching a direct report is preferable but not essential.

• Commercially focused with a willingness to adapt to change.

• A team player dedicated to the collective success of the People Team and MVF as a whole.

Take the next step in your HR career with a role that offers variety, impact, and the opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary People Team. Apply today!