Position: Senior HR Advisor
Role: Part-time – minimum 20 hours a week
Location: Silverstone, UK – hybrid working
Salary: Dependent on experience
Overview
Ignition Collective is a forward-thinking sports and entertainment marketing agency that does brilliant things, together. We specialise in delivering exceptional marketing and client service solutions, building partnerships that inspire creativity and drive real results across sport, entertainment, and special projects. We’re passionate about igniting ideas and fuelling possibilities, bringing energy, innovation, and impact to everything we do.
Role Overview
We’re looking for a proactive, experienced Senior HR Advisor with strong recruitment expertise to support a fast-paced, high-performing environment. Ideally, you will bring experience from the motorsport industry or a similarly dynamic sector, with the ability to manage ER cases while driving end -to-end recruitment processes.
The role requires a confident communicator who can balance operational HR responsibilities with strategic hiring needs, ensuring compliance, consistency, and a high-quality employee experience across all stages of the employee lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
Employee Relations
- Provide comprehensive HR support across the business, working closely with managers and employees to deliver pragmatic advice and guidance on all aspects of HR
- Advise on employee relations matters such as disciplinaries, grievances, and absence management
- Support and coach managers through formal processes and build capability in people management
- Manage ER cases end-to-end, ensuring timely resolution and compliance with employment law and company policies
- Support managers with investigations, hearings, and documentation
- Promote best practices in employee engagement, well-being, and conflict resolution
- Ensuring all people practices comply with current employment legislation and updating internal HR policies as required
- Maintain accurate and confidential HR records, managing the HRIS system, ensuring data integrity, effective use and continuous improvements of HR processes
- Acting as the first point of contact for managers, offering advice on staff issues, and upskilling them in best practices
- Monitoring various aspects of an employee’s performance, such as attendance, sick leave, well-being, and return to work plans
- Reviewing and managing employee perks and benefits
- Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation, organisation policy, and professional codes of conduct to uphold standards of practice
- Shape and deliver HR training sessions to upskill managers
- Policy development and compliance with employment law and data protection
- Responsible for overseeing HR data compliance, managing Subject Access Requests (SAR’s) from employees, and ensuring all people-related data processing meets the highest standard of legal and regulatory requirements and GDPR responsibility
Recruitment & Talent
- Manage the full recruitment lifecycle: from role briefing to onboarding
- Partner with hiring managers to understand workforce needs, particularly for technical and specialist roles
- Build talent pipelines and source candidates through various channels, including industry networks, job boards, and direct sourcing
- Conduct interviews and coordinate assessment processes
- Ensure a smooth and professional candidate experience
- Support early careers initiatives, including work experience, placements and graduates
Employee Experience
- Own and improve onboarding to ensure effective integration and early success
- Enhance the employee journey, using feedback and data to improve engagement and retention
- Manage offboarding to ensure a positive experience
- Analyse exit feedback to identify trends and inform retention strategies
Development & Performance
- Support and evolve the performance management process
- Guide managers on performance, development and underperformance
Skills, Knowledge & Experience (Essential)
- A CIPD Level 5 qualification (or working towards)
- Proven experience in an Employee Relations Advisor or HR Advisor role
- Excellent working knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practices
- Demonstrated experience managing recruitment processes end-to-end
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to handle sensitive situations with professionalism and discretion
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Experience in motorsport or a fast-paced engineering/technical environment is highly desirable
Personal Attributes
- Resilient and adaptable in a fast-moving environment
- Solutions-focused with strong problem-solving skills
- High level of integrity and confidentiality
What you will get from us
- Flexible hybrid work policy – 3 days in, 2-days’ work from home model that supports work-life balance
- 25 days holiday allowance, plus bank holidays and a winter break to recharge
- Wellness days – two wellness days per annum
- Your birthday off
- Pirkx – access to wellbeing discounts and perks
- Weekly health and wellbeing coaching sessions
- Professional Development – committed to your growth with training programs
- Pension Plan
- Quarterly staff recognition programme
- Regular team socials to connect and celebrate
- Charity Partnership – we support a new charity each year
- Onsite parking and public transport options
Why join us
At Ignition, you’ll be part of a small, dynamic team where collaboration, creativity, and initiative are
celebrated. This is a hands-on role with the opportunity to shape how the agency operates, improve processes, and make a real impact across HR, operations, and business projects. If you enjoy variety, solving problems, and helping a growing agency thrive, you’ll find this a rewarding and
empowering environment where your ideas and contributions truly matter.
