About this role
What’s the opportunity for a People Advisor at Gearset?
- Empower managers with practical leadership support, helping them confidently handle everything from career development to sensitive performance conversations without relying on a static HR playbook.
- Embed yourself within different business areas to ensure that our culture remains consistent, healthy, and high-performing as we continue to grow.
- Solve complex team challenges using core principles and common sense, giving you the autonomy to deliver practical outcomes rather than getting bogged down in rigid policies.
- Identify opportunities to simplify or automate administrative workflows, directly collaborating with the wider PeopleOps team to make life easier for managers and employees alike.
What you’ll achieve
- Coach and support managers across the full employee lifecycle, providing pragmatic advice on performance management, ER issues, and team dynamics
- Spend time within different business areas to ensure Gearset’s values are felt daily and that the employee experience remains consistent across the company.
- Spot opportunities to simplify or automate people processes to make life easier for both managers and employees, collaborating with PeopleOps on improvements.
- Work with the wider people team on manager enablement, making sure managers have the tools, training, and guidance they need to be great leaders.
About you
- Proven experience handling employee relations and performance-related conversations with exceptional judgment and clear, straightforward communication.
- A solid understanding of UK employment law and the practical ability to apply it adaptably within a fast-paced, commercial environment.
- A natural coaching and influencing style that allows you to build genuine trust quickly and challenge stakeholders at all levels with confidence.
- A proactive, pragmatic approach to problem-solving, with the strategic awareness to see how daily people initiatives link back to the company's wider goals.
- Absolute discretion, psychological maturity, and a high level of integrity when dealing with private or sensitive information.
Nice to haves
- A Level 7 CIPD qualification, or equivalent experience in a similar professional environment.
- Experience utilising HR systems and data analysis to understand trends and streamline everyday administrative processes.
Salary and benefits (the stuff you’d expect!)
- Salary is up to £47,000 (depending on experience)
- This is a full time opportunity, working Monday to Friday from our Cambridge office with the option of flexible home working (for most of us that looks like 3 days a week in the office)
- Generous personal development budget for courses, conferences, or whatever is useful to your professional development in the role of up to £1500 per year
- Top end hardware provided
- Opportunity to join our Long Term Incentive Plan
- Free lunch in the office
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy an extra 5 each year)
- Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5%)
- Bupa health care
- Life Insurance & critical illness cover
- Discounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefits