Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

The UK Human Resources team is a part of Motorola Solutions’ International Markets HR Team, operating within a complex matrix organisation. The UK & Ireland HR Team supports various client groups at offices throughout the UK & Ireland as well as a home based workforce. The Senior HR Advisor role will report directly into the UK & Ireland HR Manager.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with business partners, working with leaders to understand their priorities and work pro-actively with them to provide value added business focused HR solutions and interventions.

• Educate leaders and employees on HR policy, process and procedure.

• Provide coaching and training interventions.

• Provide good practice HR advice, guidance and support to leaders and individual performers, including in respect of effective employee relations and employment law.

• Operate as a trusted, credible Senior HR advisor.

• Support all aspects of recruitment, performance management and remuneration activity.

• Support in the development of job descriptions, job evaluation and salary benchmarking.

• Embed and sustain a high performance culture where leaders take ownership. 

• Support organisational change, restructuring and development. 

• The role also requires:

  • Daily contact with leaders at all levels as well as employees.

  • Regular contact with other members of Professional Support Services, primarily legal counsel, Finance Business Partners and Talent Acquisition.

  • Contact with suppliers and third party providers, for example external legal counsel, recruitment agencies and system hosts.

Basic Requirements

Core Competencies:

• A high degree of maturity and professionalism.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Effective coaching and mentoring skills.

• The ability to negotiate effectively.

• Commercially and financially aware.

• Excellent customer service.

• The ability to build and maintain strong relationships.

• The ability to challenge and influence in a positive, constructive manner.

• The ability to operate effectively within a team but also to succeed as an individual performer.

• A willingness to ‘go the extra mile’ when required.

• The ability to be organised, prioritise and work effectively under pressure.

• Delivery focused.

• Empathetic.

• A willingness to travel to other locations as required.

• A willingness, where required and reasonable, to work additional hours and take on additional work activity as directed by the UK & Ireland HR Manager.

Technical Expertise;

• Academic and Technical Qualifications:

  • CIPD qualified or equivalent.

  • Educated to degree level (preferred/not essential).

Other technical expertise, experience and knowledge:

• A proven track record of providing HR support at all levels.

• A proven track record of managing employee relations.

• A sound knowledge of current and future employment law.

• Experienced in Microsoft Excel and Google Workspace

• Good IT literacy.

In return for your expertise, we’ll support you in this new challenge with coaching & development every step of the way. Also, to reward your hard work you’ll get:

• Competitive salary and bonus schemes

• 24 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays

• Attractive Master Trust pension arrangement

• Flexible working options

• Private medical care

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan starting from 2025 - due in 2025

• Life assurance  

• Career development support and wide ranging learning opportunities

• Employee health and wellbeing support EAP, wellbeing guidance etc.

• Corporate social responsibility initiatives including support for volunteering days

• Family friendly policies

Please note: This role will be office based with scope for some hybrid working.

Travel Requirements

None

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

Yes

Company

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EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. 

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.