HR Generalist

Job Description

HR Generalist

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

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To efficiently and professionally support the Company's HR Function in line with key business objectives, helping to make the HR Department a highly cost-effective, valued, and well-regarded resource for managers, employees and associates alike. This role will support sites across the UK Southern region with regular travel to sites required.

• You will provide a dedicated HR advisory service for a range of employment and employee relations matters including conduct and capability, grievance and disciplinary matters, absence and health issues, and family friendly policies.
• Provide advice, support, coaching and feedback to managers on talent management activities including performance management; training and development; organisational capability assessment; change programmes
• Support and participate in investigation and disciplinary processes and recommend appropriate action.
• Completion of monthly payroll's for the sites.
• Support administratively during large project deployments- including taking minutes, actions and maintaining project trackers
• Liaise with the companies HR Colleague Service Center regarding maintenance of KPI's, background screening management, and fleet queries.
• Deliver HR Inductions on site as required.
• Support managers & the Field HR in annual compensation planning activities.
• Prepare HR Management Information to gain greater insight into the trends and to support continuous improvement in the management and monitoring of sickness absence, performance, retention etc. Pro-actively provide appropriate recommendations to line managers to address identified issues.
• Actively participate in region, division, and country HR Meetings and projects to share best practices and contribute to the improvement and development of UK wide HR policies, processes and harmonization activity.
• Support with activities that promote and maintain a culture of diversity, inclusion and customer excellence across the UK sites.
• Any other duties as required from time to time, commensurate with the post-holder's abilities, experience and authorities.

• Proven generalist HR experience at advisor level
• Advanced excel and work skills (Vlook-up's, mail merges in word and email)
• Understanding and practical application of UK Employment legislative framework
• Evidence strong experience in HR processes and procedures, e.g. Performance management, leavers, absence management etc
• Bachelors' degree or equivalent
• Ability to navigate complex matrix structure organisational relationships and confidence in collaborating with stakeholders.

• Understands who the customer is.
• Can articulate how their daily work impacts the customer.
• Prioritizes customer requirements and is dedicated to meeting or exceeding customer expectations.
• Continuously improves internal processes to create value for the customer.
• Develops and maintains successful customer relationships (internal and/or external).

• Takes personal accountability for decisions and actions.
• Does not make excuses for poor performance, is open about what is not working and what needs to be done to fix it.
• Takes personal ownership for adherence to safety, compliance, quality, and cyber security.
• Consistently applies good judgment and maintains commitment to Thermo Fisher Scientific ethics and values.

• Be intellectually curious and embrace Practical Process Improvement (PPI)
• Challenges the status quo. Introduces and proactively seeks out new ideas and solutions to strengthen our performance.
• Role models the use of Practical Process Improvement (PPI) to improve processes.
• Holds self and others accountable to build PPI capability and instill a continuous improvement culture.
• Ensures best practices and lessons learned are adopted.