Job Description

People Advisor

Location: Cressex - Hybrid Role, required to work at various sites across the UK
Contract type: Permanent / Full time

About the role

As a People Advisor at Biffa, you’ll play a key role in delivering consistent, expert people advice to managers across the business. Working in a fast-paced environment, you’ll manage a broad range of employee relations cases, provide practical and legally sound guidance, and support key business change projects including restructures and TUPE transfers. Partnering closely with People Business Partners and operational teams, you’ll help drive fair outcomes, support business performance, and make a real impact for both our people and the business.

Your core responsibilities

• Providing expert, consistent advice on all employee relations matters
• Managing your own cases from start to resolution
• Supporting organisational change, including restructures, redundancies, and TUPE transfers
• Building strong relationships and coaching managers to develop capability
• Delivering engaging training and ensuring advice is aligned with employment law and best practice

Our essential requirements

• Experience managing a variety of employee relations cases, including complex ones
• Good knowledge of UK employment law and business change processes (e.g., TUPE)
• High emotional intelligence and strong stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a fast-paced team

Biffa – we’re changing the way people think about waste

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,000+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull.

We believe different ideas, perspective and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment which is why you’ll find us championing diversity and equality at every turn.