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Role: HR Advisor Located: Northampton (Hybrid) Package: Competitive salary, bonus plus additional company benefits
About Ricoh:
Ricoh is a global technology business. As a company born in print, we design and manufacture graphic solutions that transform communications. To keep up with the pace of change in the workplace, we have built an extensive portfolio of innovative, industry-leading digital services spanning everything from Cloud & IT infrastructure solutions to process automation tools.
Everything we do is designed to help individuals achieve fulfilment through work. Through technology, we make work smarter and more creative. Enabling people to lead purposeful working lives and organisations to become more productive, sustainable and profitable.
* Advise and support managers on disciplinary, grievance, performance, and sickness absence cases from start to finish, ensuring consistent, fair, and timely outcomes which is in line with legislation, policy and best practice.
* Coach managers to handle sensitive issues confidently including supporting investigations while preparing and maintaining appropriate documentation.
* Work with managers to identify patterns with sickness absence in order to reduce absence levels, and support employee wellbeing through early intervention and appropriate adjustments.
* To develop and maintain collaborative and productive relationships with business functional area/managers, (incl HR colleagues) establishing professional credibility.
* Support the review and updating of HR policies, ensuring they remain legally compliant, relevant, and practical for the business.
* To be responsible for providing accurate, timely and relevant management information to the business, gaining insight into management information and the possible levers for change and making recommendations.
* To support the development and delivery of training on HR related matters to equip managers with appropriate skills / knowledge to effectively manage their staff to meet business needs.
* Support workforce planning, role changes, restructures, and consultation processes when required.
You will ideally have
* Strong, up‑to‑date understanding of UK employment legislation.
* Proven experience managing ER cases including disciplinary, grievance, and sickness.
* Ability to interpret policies and legislation and apply them in a commercially practical way.
* Confident communicator with the ability to influence, coach, and challenge constructively.
* Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple cases and deadlines.
* CIPD part or fully qualified (or equivalent experience) preferred.
* High level interpersonal skills, e.g. conflict resolution.
In return for your commitment, you can expect
We’re looking for individuals with values and causes, strengths and weaknesses, passions and ideas. Bring your unique energy, and we’ll match it with opportunities to create the future.
In return for your commitment, we can offer you:
* Excellent package with solid basic, strong bonus and company benefits including:
o A competitive holiday entitlement, two days special leave per annum for volunteering, additional holiday purchase scheme
o Flexible retirement plan
o Wellbeing schemes to support your physical, emotional and financial health including Employee Assistance Programme, financial protection, life cover and will writing, medical protection, gym, travel and retail discounts, and more.
o Company car / car allowance (role‑specific), cycle to work scheme
Our values encourage us to constantly improve and contribute to the wellbeing of all stakeholders, including our customers, employees and society.
For our leaders, we deliver training and mentorship to ensure our managers can positively contribute to our company culture, with inclusive behaviours that are aligned to our values.
Be part of something bigger
Our approach to sustainability touches every part of our organisation: from manufacturing to distribution, business sites to recycling, and how we support our customers.
By working with Ricoh, you choose to work for a company that cares about its impact on the planet and takes steps to reduce it each year. We have a number ofglobal sustainability accreditations. You can read more about our work toward the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goalshere .
We are an equal opportunities employer
We are an equal opportunities employer
We are open to discussing adjustments to the recruitment process if needed. 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.
Striving for inclusion and diversity isn’t just the right thing to do. Diverse approaches, perspectives and experiences make us more innovative, lead to better decisions and help us better understand the needs of our customers.
To empower you to bring your full identity to work, we have employee-led affinity groups in LGBTQ+, gender and ethnicity that allow members to explore issues and challenges surrounding shared identities, experiences and beliefs.
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