Associate HR Operations

Job Title: HR Operations HR Advisor

Location: Alderley Park, Macclesfield (Hybrid – 3 days on site)

Reports to: HR Operations Team Leader

Job Summary:

As part of the HR Operations team, the HR Advisor delivers high-quality, customer-focused HR administration across the full employee lifecycle. The role manages Workday transactions, maintains accurate employee records, and supports key HR programmes and annual people processes to ensure a positive employee experience.

Responsibilities:

• Managing the full employee lifecycle through Workday, including onboarding, employee changes, transfers, promotions, salary updates and leaver processes.
• Maintaining accurate employee records and HR data, ensuring compliance with data protection and company policies.
• Providing first-line HR support and guidance to managers and employees on HR policies, procedures and systems.
• Administering employee benefits, payroll-related changes and ensuring timely and accurate processing of HR transactions.
• Supporting cyclical HR activities, including merit reviews, long service awards, annual processes and other people programmes.
• Producing HR data, supporting audits, and contributing to HR projects and continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements:

• Must have significant experience within human resources.
• Knowledge of UK employment law and regulations.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organisational skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and HRIS software.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information.

• Candidates must have the right to work in the UK.

Preferred qualifications (not a requirement):

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, or related field CIPD qualification in People Management

FR : Dans le cadre de sa politique Diversité, Evotec étudie, à compétences égales, toutes les candidatures dont celles des personnes en situation de handicap.

EN: In the frame of our Diversity policy, Evotec considers, with equal competences, all applications including people with disabilities.

IT: In compliance with fundamental ethical and professional principles and with Legislative Decree 198/2006, Evotec is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to fostering a safe, diverse, and inclusive workplace built on mutual respect. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees based on their skills, experience, and professional qualifications. In line with our ethical and professional principles, all employment-related decisions, including recruitment and selection processes, are made fairly and without any form of discrimination. All qualified candidates will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, sex, age, disability, genetic information, gender expression, gender identity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.

About Us

Evotec is a life science company with a unique business model that delivers on its mission to discover and develop highly effective therapeutics and make them available to the patients. The Company’s multimodality platform comprises a unique combination of innovative technologies, data and science for the discovery, development, and production of first-in-class and best-in-class pharmaceutical products. Evotec leverages this “Data-driven R&D Autobahn to Cures” for proprietary projects and within a network of partners including all Top 20 Pharma and over 800 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, as well as other healthcare stakeholders. Evotec has strategic activities in a broad range of currently underserved therapeutic areas, including e.g. neurology, oncology, as well as metabolic and infectious diseases. Within these areas of expertise, Evotec aims to create the world-leading co-owned pipeline for innovative therapeutics and has to-date established a portfolio of more than 200 proprietary and co-owned R&D projects from early discovery to clinical development. Evotec operates globally with more than 5,000 highly qualified people. The Company’s 17 sites offer highly synergistic technologies and services and operate as complementary clusters of excellence. For additional information please go to www.evotec.com and follow us on X/Twitter @Evotec and LinkedIn.

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