People Advisor

Job title: People Advisor

Reporting to: Head of People

The Azzurri Group is one of the UK’s largest and most successful hospitality investment platforms. We operate two leading national Italian full-service brands, Zizzi and ASK Italian and the UK’s leading quick-service Italian, Coco di Mama. Beyond Italian cuisine, we boast renowned Irish fast casual Mexican restaurant brand Boojum, and most recently the world famous, ‘mind-blowing’ fried chicken brand Dave’s Hot Chicken.

As a group, our purpose is to build better food businesses that sustain happy, healthy lives. We are in this together, and we’re committed to providing an engaging, honest, and inspiring working environment for you to grow and develop your career.

At Azzurri, we believe that a diverse and inclusive team is essential to building great relationships and connections, and ultimately a better business. If you’re passionate, want to make a positive impact and share our values, we would love to hear from you!

What are we looking for?

An individual with experience within a People function, who is actively driving their career and their own development. This is a fantastic opportunity for a People generalist looking to propel their career!

What will you bring?

• Act with integrity, confidentiality, and sensitivity at all times;
• Strong written skills and a confident verbal communicator;
• Inspiring, fair, and consistent;
• A solution orientated approach with resilience, initiative and ability to challenge the status quo;
• Ability to research independently and share findings in an informal but informative manner;
• High level of attention to detail and comfortable handling a wide range of data (including sensitive and personal information);
• Good IT competence (Microsoft Office, specifically Excel, HR systems e.g., Fourth Hospitality, Mapal & Egencia);
• Works well under pressure to meet deadlines whilst managing conflicting demands;
• Confident to role model best practice behaviours;
• Professional development within People function would be beneficial (CIPD, university degree)

We will be looking for you to show us that you share our Azzurri values - Do Better, Be Curious, Don’t Give up, Be Caring, and Be You. Find out more on www.azzurrigroup.co.uk

What’s on offer at Azzurri?

We have a cool office space in Central London, designed by our in-house creative team. With barista training as part of your induction, a free Coco di Mama breakfast twice a week, free fruit, a variety of cold and hot drinks all day every day, and lunch together every month to stay connected, you’ll see that we are a hospitable bunch.

Your development is key, and we offer apprenticeships, management, and leadership programmes as well as skills and professional development. There’s lots to get involved with to keep learning.

So you can take care of your wellbeing, holidays increase the longer you stay with us, you will have access to our EAP scheme, eye tests and eyecare savings and an annual flu jab voucher. There is an annual bonus scheme of up to 10%, and a competitive salary. You can also get involved with volunteering and join our sports teams if you are up for it.

We would love to hear from you if you think the role and Azzurri sound like you.

Here’s more detail on the day to day

• Play an integral role in driving Azzurri’s people initiatives to deliver on our People Pillars and Recipe for a Better Future goals, outlined in the enclosed document.
• Manage the HR processes with accuracy and care; starters, leavers, parental leave, issuing contracts of employment and starter packs, right to work compliance, and payroll & benefit administration.
• As a champion of our inclusive recruitment practices, you will advise hiring managers and support our Education & Apprenticeship Manager with delivering recruitment days, screening and sourcing.
• Lead, monitor, and influence team member engagement through our ‘You matter, we’re listening survey’ and ad hoc pulse surveys.
• Act as a key point of contact for all employee relation matters, ensuring that concerns are addressed in a sensitive manner and resolved in line with legal and company policy, coaching line managers as required.
• Take a supportive role in creating, coordinating, and delivering our Azzurri development workshops, helping to nurture our leaders of the future and keep the Azzurri talent pipeline alive.
• Work cross functionally and cross brand to provide administrative support to our reward processes including the annual salary review and annual bonus spreadsheets and issuing confirmation of salary increases and bonus payments.
• Continually elevate our external employer branding by engaging with future talent in a creative and relevant way through out recruitment platforms.
• Help drive our culture of inclusion and steer our inclusion group, empowering others to take action and deliver an annual calendar of events.
• Act as the guardian of our internal Share Point comms platform, ensuring all resources are relevant and company policies are legally sound and easily accessible to team members.
• Support the Chapel Street teams as a first port of call for any people systems, issues, and access requests.
• Maintain HR files and employee records: keeping all records up to date and legally compliant.
• Ready to step in to provide administrative support and get involved in ad hoc project work when required.