Junior People Advisor

Junior People Advisor  

🌏 Manchester  

💷 £30,000 + Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme   

⏰ Full time or part time (hybrid)  

💖 Our perks   

• 🌏25 days holiday (rising to 28 after 3 years’ service) plus bank holidays, to take time to recharge and do something you love. 
• 🤒 Private Medical - via vitality, with reward schemes paid for you and your family. 
• 🤒 Health cash plan - via health shield for employee's and children claiming money back for dental, optical, etc 
• 👍Pension – Oodle will contribute 5% of your salary into your pension pot to help you save for the future. 
• 🥝Free breakfast, drinks and fruit in the office – you can help yourself to cereals, toast, fizzy drinks and lots of fruit. 
• 🤟Employee discounts – discounts you can access anywhere, anytime for all major shops. 
• 👌1 day volunteer day per year – an opportunity to give back to the community each year. 
• ⭐Mental health care – 6 free counselling sessions via our EAP (Employee Assistance Programme). 
• 🤧Paid sick leave – enhanced company sick pay.  
• 👨‍Enhanced family leave – we provide enhanced family leave for primary and secondary caregivers. 

🚗 Oodle – who are we? 🚗   

Our mission is to be the UK’s simplest way to find and finance a great value used car. We want to put car buyers back in control and make the car buying experience as simple, straightforward, and joyful as possible as car buyers deserve oodles of car buying confidence!   

We are a team of 450 people located in Manchester, Oxford and London. Over the past 7 years, we’ve supported 10,000’s of customers on their car buying journey and know 2025 is shaping up to be another exciting year!   

🙌 The Role  

We’re on the lookout for a Junior People Advisor to join our team! This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with some advisory experience who’s ready to broaden their HR knowledge across Recruitment, HR, and Talent Development. You’ll get hands-on experience working with different areas of the People Team while developing your skills in a collaborative environment. 

What you’ll be getting up to:  

• Providing first-line HR advice and guidance to managers and employees, ensuring we’re in line with UK employment law.  
• Supporting Employee Relations cases (grievances, disciplinaries, absence management).  
• Getting involved in recruitment – from sourcing candidates to arranging interviews and onboarding new joiners.  
• Helping to shape and support talent development initiatives, making sure our people have the tools to grow.  
• Keeping HR records up to date and making sure we’re working efficiently behind the scenes.  
• Contributing to exciting HR projects across the team!  

You’ll be a great fit it:  

• Some experience in employee relations – you might have supported ER cases or advised managers in a previous role.  
• A good understanding of UK employment law (doesn’t have to be expert level, but you’re keen to learn more!). 
• Previous experience in a HR role.  
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to juggle multiple priorities.  
• A keen interest in growing across different areas of HR. 

👩‍💻 Hiring Process   

• ☎️ Preliminary Interview (30 mins) 
• 📹 Face to Face Interview (1 hr) 
• 🏢 Final Interview (30 minutes) 

💚 Our Values    

Our values are our personal brand and lay the foundation of what we care about the most. They provide us with guidance, so we can work towards the same goals. They are our DNA and are kept at the forefront of our Oodler’s mind when making business decisions.    

• Embrace being human – empathy and diversity make us stronger.  
• Strive for awesome – it’s awesome when we do better every day.  
• Everyone’s a builder – we’re in this together and we win as a team.  
• Bravely honest – we’re honest with ourselves and everyone else.  
• Think customer – they’re at the heart of everything we do. 

To find out more about our culture and what happens at Oodle check out our LinkedIn and Instagram.   

Oodle is proud to be an inclusive workplace, and we recognise diversity of experience, thoughts and backgrounds leads to better customer outcomes and an environment where our colleagues can thrive. We have several DEI networks which are made up of our ‘Oodlers’ who strive to make positive impacts to our cultures.  

We’d love if you could submit your application online, but if you need an alternative method or need reasonable adjustments to take part in the interview process, please email careers@oodlefinance.com .

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