People Advisor

Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36000 people in over 70 countries dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

This role will be responsible for operational people services delivery to all Arcadians providing local expertise advice proactive solutions and quality support through appropriate people frameworks policies and procedures.

The People Advisor role reports directly to the People Services Manager.

Act as a trusted advisor & member of the People Services Team
As a member of the Local People Service team the People Advisor will establish trusted relationships with employees & line managers and provide front line advisory support on people initiatives programs or challenges. They will also collaborate with business partner community and broader people services teams to support the total employee experience within a geographic area. The role will work closely with the People Services Manager to support an inclusive high performing organization in line with the strategic people and culture direction.

In more detail the People Advisor will:
Proactively ensure compliance with Arcadis Policy and relevant Employment Legislation. Providing accurate and timely advice to the business.
Respond to queries from employees and line managers and referring/escalating as appropriate.
Liaison with internal service providers and stakeholders e.g. Payroll GPSS Talent Acquisition to ensure seamless operational delivery to the business
Support regionally specific initiatives

General
Responsible for delivering proactive timely and high quality service
The role holder will be expected to work across different GBAs where required
The People Advisor will work collaboratively within the People Operating model to support the wider business
Play a key role in the local People Services network and take an active role on group wide People projects as needed
Role Model the Arcadis Way
Act as a visible steward of health and safety and ensuring familiarity and compliance with Health and Safety regulations and guidelines.
Provide advisory services in support of strategic People programs (eg Talent Management Performance & Reward and Diversity Inclusion & Belonging) incorporating our cultural pillars (Sustainability Inclusion Accountability and Human centricity).
Establish trusted relationships with the employees & line managers
Provide front line advisory on people initiatives and programs with a strategic people or business impact.
Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to co-create develop and support people solutions

The candidate should have an academic degree (preferably in human resources) and a minimum of 5 years of progressive (human resources) experience. They should have broad experience and understand the complexity of leading people issues.
Further the candidate should have experiences with diverse and complex matrix businesses in and familiarity working within a People Shared Services & Centres of Excellence model
Excellent communication skills and ability to build solid working relationships
Excellent attention to detail
Experience of managing / supporting HR projects
Capacity to understand how people issues impact the business and how People Services can create value for the organization
Demonstrates integrity in all business interactions and honours personal commitments
Ability to provide both verbal and written information clearly succinctly and persuasively as well as ability to influence others
Strong organisation skills are important as well as strong attention to detail an ability to multitask and see work through to full implementation
Ability to build key relationships and reach agreements and consensus despite differing goals and priorities
Demonstrates a pro-active approach
Ability to adapt in a changing environment
Ability to use research methods effectively including data collection diagnostic and analytical skills
Good working knowledge of employment laws and practices
Experience in people data systems and processes

Why Arcadis