People Advisor

Company: Pion
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role, you will oversee the full employee lifecycle and act as a trusted advisor to managers on performance and employee relations. You’ll shape onboarding, offboarding, and payroll inputs, while turning people data into actionable insights. You will lead the London office operations and foster a coaching culture to develop managers and teams. This is a hands-on, people-centric position in a remote-first company that values growth and inclusion, with a strong focus on wellbeing and development.

Pay / Benefits

  • competitive salary
  • 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • remote-first working environment
  • flexible working hours
  • monthly wellness allowance
  • 200 work from home setup allowance

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end onboarding and offboarding processes, including inductions, IT setup, probation tracking, exit interviews, and payroll inputs
  • Counsel managers on performance, employee relations, and development plans; drive quarterly performance reviews and PIPs; escalate formal matters to the CPO
  • Build manager capability through coaching, refresher training, development planning, and contributing to competency and resourcing plans
  • Transform people data into insights for departments by coordinating pulse surveys, producing monthly department dashboards, monitoring absence and engagement, and pursuing workflow automation
  • Run the London office as on-site lead, managing facilities, health & safety, bookings, events, and day-to-day operations

Key requirements

  • Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a generalist People/HR role
  • Comfortable advising and coaching managers on performance, development, and employee relations
  • Experience turning people data into actionable insights for managers
  • Hands-on, organized approach; able to manage office facilities and hosting
  • Based near London with flexibility to be in Workhub 1–2 days per week
  • coaching and influence
  • stakeholder management
  • data-driven decision making
  • people analytics
  • pulse surveys and dashboards
  • absence and engagement monitoring

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Posted: October 16th, 2026