Senior HR Adviser – 6 months FTC
Location: London
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract – 6 Months
Work Pattern: Full Time | Hybrid
As a senior member of the HR team you will play a critical role leading the people‑related elements of a medium‑scale organisational transformation. You will design and deliver complex change programmes, ensuring that all people impacts are managed in a legally compliant, commercially sound and human‑centred way.
MS Amlin is part of a global top-10 insurance group, MS&AD. We’re made up of four distinct businesses covering Global Reinsurance, Lloyds Franchise, Local Specialty Insurer, and Business Services
MS Amlin Business Services (MS ABS) supports our entire organisation through IT, Cyber, Procurement, Legal, HR, Facilities Management, and Finance. Our vision is to be a trusted partner and solution provider of choice.
What you’ll spend your time doing:
Transformation Design & Delivery
- Develop the end‑to‑end implementation plan for organisational transformation.
- Assess and navigate organisational complexity, structure and context to enable successful change.
- Apply deep employment law expertise to design commercially viable implementation approaches.
- Identify risks and proactively design mitigation strategies.
Consultation & Employee Relations
- Lead multi‑faceted consultation processes including redundancy, redeployment, TUPE and structural redesign.
- Manage complex ER matters arising from transformation, ensuring fair, compliant and pragmatic outcomes.
- Provide expert ER guidance to HR colleagues and senior stakeholders.
Stakeholder Partnership
- Act as trusted counsel to senior business and HR leaders on all people‑related implementation matters.
- Build credibility with senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and ensuring alignment across the programme.
- Communicate complex issues clearly and sensitively.
HR Capability Building
- Coach and upskill the broader HR team in change, ER and implementation best practice.
- Role‑model high‑quality HR delivery and strategic thinking.
Project & Programme Management
- Manage multiple concurrent workstreams within a fast‑paced transformation environment.
- Ensure milestones, risks, dependencies and communications are effectively tracked and governed.
- Drive structured project discipline while adapting to evolving priorities.
You’re going to enjoy this job if you also…
- Can translate complex employment law and ER issues into practical, innovative solutions.
- Thrive in high‑challenge, high‑trust environments.
- Enjoy working at pace and solving problems collaboratively.
- Are organised, influential and comfortable working with senior stakeholders.
What you’ll need:
For this particular role there are some important qualifications and experience we need you to have. These include:
- Proven experience delivering organisational change programmes, including leading formal consultations.
- Strong employment law knowledge with a commercial, solutions‑focused mindset.
- Demonstrated expertise in complex ER casework.
- High resilience, self‑management and a drive for excellence.
- Ability to manage multiple complex tasks simultaneously.
- Collaborative, flexible and comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to simplify complexity for senior audiences.
What you can expect from us:
A competitive salary and benefits package is a given, but you can also expect:
- A great team and supportive colleagues
- An open mind (especially to new ideas and ways of doing things)
- A strong focus on diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities
- A programme of wellbeing and mental health support
- Employer-supported volunteering (ESV)
- Flexible working
- Continuous learning
- Study support
- Structured career development
We are stronger together because of our common interests and rich differences. You may be the strength we didn’t know we needed. Believe in yourself, and click apply today!
Each one of us is unique because of our backgrounds, what we have learned so far and how we express that. Establishing an inclusive attitude helps us, organisationally, to ‘think outside the box’ because it calls on that diverse range of ideas, perspectives and lived experiences.
We commit to continuing our work towards a more diverse and inclusive future by recognising that our business, our teams and every colleague has a part to play in driving the positive change we all want to see.
Our values demonstrate our commitment to providing an environment in which each and every colleague is respected for who they are and what they can contribute to the business, regardless of nationality, race, ethnicity, religion/faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, socio-economic background, sex or age.
