HR Advisor (UK market)

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Digital, a company at the forefront of digital transformation and the fastest growing division of Hitachi Group. We’re crucial to the company’s strategy and ambition to become a premier global player in the massive and fast-moving digital transformation market.

Our group companies, including GlobalLogic, Hitachi Digital Services, Hitachi Vantara and more, offer comprehensive services that span the entire digital lifecycle, from initial idea to full-scale operation and the infrastructure to run it on. Hitachi Digital represents One Hitachi, integrating domain knowledge and digital capabilities, and harnessing the power of the entire portfolio of services, technologies, and partnerships, to accelerate synergy creation and make real-world impact for our customers and society as a whole.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to unleash a digital future. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

The team

GPS (GlobalLogic People Support) in Hitachi Digital covers a variety of HR processes, including benefits administration, onboarding, compensation and more. We provide support to our employees, managers and team colleagues with HR related questions and tasks, as well as, working closely with HR teams globally to deliver excellent HR operations service. In this role, as a member of the GPS EMEA region (12 countries) you will be responsible for coordinating and administering the day to day operations of our employee benefits programs to ensure the EMEA Benefits Team delivers comprehensive and professional service, as well as, supporting GPS EMEA Team with UK labour law related topics and queries.

The role

In this position you will be supporting and guiding HR Operations team regarding any queries, tasks or inputs relating to UK labour law. You will coordinate daily benefits processing, including enrollments, deregistration and dealing with employees requests in the Jira system while administering benefits within the EMEA region, always taking service to the next level by ensuring professional, high quality and timely service delivery within your designated area.

You will participate in internal and global HR projects to improve user experience and deliver top-class service, store and maintain employee application and consent forms related to benefits/pension as well as provide monthly benefits reports to the Finance and Payroll teams for salary calculation and vendor payments. Additionally, you will be also a part of projects related to improving efficiency and work quality; you will be updating knowledge base with any benefits related changes, including policies, guidelines, etc. while also creating and maintaining reports in relation to benefits utilization, satisfaction and annual membership information (tasks include also coordinating with benefits providers regarding any discrepancies or accesses to the benefits platforms issues). Close work and collaboration with other HR teams, support functions, managers and employees across the world is also a vital part of this role.

What you’ll bring

• Working knowledge of UK labour law (essential)
• Customer Service experience
• Understanding of Global HR processes (experience in HR Shared Service environment would be an asset)
• Fluent in English – written and verbal
• Fluent in Polish - written and verbal
• Experience in employee benefits administration
• Excellent MS Office knowledge and skills
• 2-3 years HR systems practical knowledge (will be an asset)
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and prioritize tasks effectively
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new skills
• Anchored knowledge of relevant HR processes

About us

We’re a global, 1000-strong, diverse team of professional experts, promoting and delivering Social Innovation through our One Hitachi initiative (OT x IT x Product) and working on projects that have a real-world impact. We’re curious, passionate and empowered, blending our legacy of 110 years of innovation with our shaping our future. Here you’re not just another employee; you’re part of a tradition of excellence and a community working towards creating a digital future.

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Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion   

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.   

How we look after you  

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.   

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.