HR Advisor & Insights Lead (Part-time)

Celtic Football Club is seeking a talented HR Advisor & Insights Lead to play a key role in shaping data-driven people practices across the Club. This is an exciting opportunity for an HR professional who is passionate about turning data into meaningful insight, improving digital HR processes, and supporting colleagues with high‑quality HR advice.

If you thrive in a fast-paced, diverse environment and enjoy combining HR expertise with systems, analytics and process improvement, we’d love to hear from you!

Key accountabilities will include:

HR Systems, Data and Insight

• Act as the lead for the Club’s HRIS, ensuring data integrity, system optimisation and effective utilisation across the HR team
• Proactively identify opportunities to digitise manual HR processes, improving efficiency, accuracy and user experience
• Develop, maintain and automate HR dashboards and reports covering key people metrics (e.g. headcount, turnover, absence, ER trends, recruitment, diversity and wellbeing)
• Carry out regular analysis of HR data to identify trends, risks and opportunities, translating insight into clear, actionable recommendations for the Head of HR and senior stakeholders
• Support workforce planning through data modelling, scenario analysis and forecasting
• Ensure HR data is accurately maintained, compliant with GDPR and aligned to data governance best practice
• Work closely with Payroll, Finance and IT to ensure effective data flows, reconciliations and reporting

HR Processes and Continuous Improvement

• Lead the review, design and implementation of streamlined digital HR process across the employee lifecycle
• Document and standardise HR processes, ensuring consistency, scalability and audit readiness
• Measure the effectiveness of HR processes and interventions using data and defined KPIs
• Support system upgrades, enhancements and testing, acting as the key HR liaison with system providers

Collaboration

• Work alongside the HR team and line managers to embed a data-led approach to people management and decision making
• Support the Head of HR in the research, design and evaluation of HR policies, processes and initiatives using data and insight

Employee Relations

• Provide advice and support to managers and colleagues on ER related issues
• Conduct investigations in line with policies and procedures
• Analyse employee relations data to identify recurring themes, risks and preventative actions
• Produce ER trend reports to inform policy updates, manager capability building and wellbeing initiatives

Recruitment, Onboarding and Diversity Insight

• Provide guidance in all aspects of recruitment and onboarding
• Analyse recruitment and onboarding data to assess effectiveness, time-to-hire, quality of hire and candidate experience
• Monitor and report on diversity data across recruitment and employment lifecycle stages, supporting fair and inclusive practices

Talent Development

• Identify and highlight any development needs
• Design and deliver appropriate training modules
• Advise and support with any performance related issues

Reward

• Ensure Club benefits are competitive, updated and promoted
• Work closely with third party benefit suppliers to ensure service levels are met

Skills and Experience required:

Essential

• Extensive and up to date understanding of employment legislation.
• Strong understanding of all areas of HR
• Experience working within a diverse and fast paced environment
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Experienced in developing and supporting colleagues across all levels
• Demonstratable experience working with HR systems, including data management, reporting and system improvement
• Proven ability to digitise and improve HR processes using systems and technology
• Strong experience in analysing HR data and producing meaningful insight to inform decision making

Desirable

• Experience implementing or upgrading HR systems, specific knowledge of Cascade is advantageous
• Experience building HR dashboards or management information packs
• Knowledge of workforce planning, data modelling or people analytics methodologies

Club Benefits

• Dedicated Employee Assistance Programme
• Life assurance, pension and holiday buy scheme
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Access to our colleagues benefits & discount platform
• Regular colleague social events
• Subsidised on-site canteen
• Free parking – Celtic Park
• Staff retail discount on Celtic & Adidas merchandise

Unfortunately, due to the high number of applications we receive, we are unable to feedback to applicants that have not been selected for interview stage.

No job applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, civil partnership status, any gender re-assignment/identity/expression, religion or belief, sexual orientation or disability or other legal protected characteristics.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and who meet the criteria for the job.