HR Advisor
Quintessential Brands, the award-winning company behind premium spirits including Bloom, Opihr and Greenall's, is looking for an experienced HR Advisor to join our Warrington-based People Team.
In this role, you'll provide proactive HR support across the employee lifecycle, partnering with managers and employees to deliver an excellent people experience while supporting HR, payroll and recruitment activities.
A Flavour of The Job
If you're an HR professional who enjoys supporting people, building strong relationships, and making a real difference, we'd love to hear from you.
Reporting to the HR Operations Manager, you'll be a trusted partner to managers and employees, providing professional HR advice and support across a broad range of people matters. You'll help ensure our HR policies, processes, and resources are applied effectively, contributing to a positive workplace culture and an outstanding employee experience.
Why join us? You'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact, develop your HR career, and work as part of a supportive and collaborative team where your ideas and contributions are valued.
A Taste of the Business
We are a unique blend, with a 250-year heritage, a pioneering company with ambitions to grow and share our passion for spirits with generations to come. We’re not perfect, we still have processes and systems to implement and improve and as a company, we operate in a lean and agile way, but we are getting there. Joining QB (as we’re known to our friends) is a unique opportunity to roll your sleeves up, get stuck in and really help to shape the business as we expand. Are you up for the challenge?
More about the Role
Be the first point of contact for HR advice and support, helping colleagues and managers navigate a range of people matters.
Support employee relations activities, including absence management, performance, disciplinary and grievance processes.
Manage key HR processes across the employee lifecycle, from onboarding new starters to supporting leavers.
Maintain HR systems and people data, producing insights and reports that help drive business decisions.
Contribute to HR projects and initiatives covering engagement, wellbeing, reward, inclusion and culture.
Support audits, policy updates and compliance activities across the UK and Ireland.
Coordinate apprenticeships, visa administration and other people-related programmes.
Build strong relationships with colleagues across multiple sites, providing practical and proactive HR support.
Working knowledge of employment law and the ability to apply legislation and employment rights in the workplace
The Perfect Serve - A Bit About You
Previous experience as a HR Advisor role is essential.
Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities and maintain accuracy in a fast-paced environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and adapt communication styles to suit a range of stakeholders.
Resilient and confident in providing advice and guidance, with the ability to handle sensitive situations professionally and challenge appropriately when required.
Flexible, pragmatic, and solutions-focused, with the ability to balance business needs with HR best practice.
Customer-focused and approachable, committed to delivering a high-quality HR service and positive employee experience.
Able to work independently while also collaborating effectively as part of a wider People team.
Demonstrates discretion and professionalism when handling confidential and sensitive information.
Minimum CIPD Level 5 qualification, or a clear commitment to working towards it.
Strong Excel skills, preferably including pivot tables, data sorting and formula creation for reporting.
The Garnish – Benefits that come with the role
We know great innovation starts with great people. That’s why we offer:
Company pension
Healthcare scheme
25 days' holiday plus bank holidays
Staff product allowance
Employee Assistance Programme
Life Assurance
Discount Scheme
- Location
- G&J Distillers (Warrington)
- Salary
- £37,000 - £40,000/year
- Employment type
- Full-time
Colleagues
Our Culture - The Essence of Quintessential Brands
We're an 'all hands on deck' kind of place where you'll have the opportunity to get involved in end to end projects, implement systems and process. We're fast, agile and entrepreneurial but, most importantly, our people are at the heart of what we do.
While we do work hard, we do it with a sense of fun, pride and passion that you won't find anywhere else.
Are you never shaken and very rarely stirred? More Cosmopolitan than Old Fashioned? Approach everything you do with a dash of creativity and a squeeze of positivity? Then we need you!
About Quintessential Brands Group
Established in 2011, Quintessential Brands Group is one of the most successful spirits companies to emerge from the UK in the last decade. The company offers a complete range of services and products to its customers across the world; producing and distributing some of the world's most-loved spirits brands, including Greenall's, the Original London Dry Gin, Opihr Spiced Gin and BLOOM Gin, as well as developing and producing some of the most commercially successful retailer brands of recent years for trade customers, and co-packing for some of the world’s most well-known spirits brands.
Recognised by the industry as International Spirits Challenge Gin Distiller of the Year five times in the last six years, Quintessential Brands is renowned for its unrivalled gin distilling capabilities heritage dating back to 1761 and is emerging as one of the most dynamic new entrants in the Irish whiskey market with the Dublin Liberties Distillery. With world-class product development and manufacturing at four world-class production sites across Europe and an award-winning premium brand portfolio comprised of English Gins, Irish Whiskeys, Irish Creams and Liqueurs, Quintessential Brands is committed to being the indispensable spirits partner of choice to its customers across the world, with customers and insights at the heart of everything we do.