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From the employer's careers site First seen 27 Oct 2026

HR Services Consultant

Howden Hybrid mid

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Description

Howden Group Holdings is transforming its HR services delivery to provide commercially aligned and strategic HR support to stakeholders. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver first-class HR Services support to UK businesses, providing first-line HR support to a fast-growing and transformational business.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide a client-focused HR service across the employee lifecycle, delivering a great experience to people
  • Work as an advocate and expert on Workday HR, guiding and supporting people while promoting self-service capability
  • Ensure follow-up actions and ongoing enquiries are completed to a high standard and in time for payroll cut-off
  • Collaborate with colleagues within HRES to drive consistency across the business, improve processes, and gain efficiencies
  • Work with the Recruitment team to ensure the applicant through to new starter process is managed efficiently and provides a great candidate experience
  • Collaborate with the group HR centres of excellence, HRBP, reward, change, payroll, learning, and HRIS teams
  • Validate data, ensure job details are correct, such as roles, teams, and cost centres
  • Make appropriate decisions and use own judgement on work prioritisation to meet service delivery expectations
  • Work within GDPR guidelines, managing people data requests and the confidentiality of data
  • Contribute to wider projects and initiatives within HR, driving process improvements, automation, and efficiencies
  • Ensure cases and requests are completed correctly and in time for payroll

Requirements:

  • Delivery-focused and able to demonstrate putting client experience first
  • Self-motivated with a positive attitude
  • Strong relationship-building and influencing skills
  • Ability to work well under pressure to meet deadlines while managing conflicting demands
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Team player with the ability to learn quickly
  • Workday and HR Shared Services experience desirable
  • Ability to work well independently with confidence
  • Strong organisational, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Problem solver with resilience, initiative, and ability to challenge the status quo
  • Smart, pragmatic, and positive approach, able to build trust and offer proactive solutions

What we offer:

  • A career that you define
  • Opportunities to work with a diverse and global organisation
  • Supportive and collaborative work environment
  • Flexible working arrangements, including reasonable adjustments for disabilities

Skills

Required

  • Workday HR
  • HR Shared Services
  • GDPR
  • Communication
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Problem-solving

Nice to have

  • Workday and HR Shared Services experience

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://hyperiongrp.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/hyperion_external/job/Milton-Keynes---The-Avebury/HR-Assistant_R0019782-2

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