People (HR) Assistant

More About The Role

As a People Administrator / Assistant, you will play a vital role in supporting the day-to-day operations of our human resources department. You will be responsible for a wide range of HR administrative tasks, ensuring smooth and efficient HR processes, and providing excellent customer service to our employees. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about HR and wants to contribute to the success of a growing organisation.

Reporting to the People Specialist, you will:

Be the first point of contact for foundation level site People queries

Offer HR Expertise to site colleagues and managers as necessary

Provide administrative support to the HR team

Ensure payroll administration is accurate and all colleagues get paid correctly and on time

Maintain records, files and spreadsheets in line with data protection legislation

Keep ad-hoc analysis and reporting on HR issues up to date

Coordinate weekly HR audit checks

Support the recruitment process for the site as required

Become a subject matter expert on company HR policies, ensuring the site remains fully compliant at all times.

Support, coach and challenge line management with absence, disciplinary and grievance issues

Develop engaging, proactive communications across the site

Build positive and effective relationships with unions, agency suppliers, colleagues and stakeholders

Support and drive colleague engagement on site

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About The Company

From a Bradford market stall to the UK’s 4th largest supermarket chain and the UK's 2nd largest fresh food manufacturer.

We are proud to be the Yorkshire food retailer serving customers across the UK at just under 500 stores and an online home delivery service. Our 18 manufacturing sites provide our customers with the freshest produce from flowers, fish and veg to burgers and bread, all delivered to our stores via our 6 distribution sites by our 2,000 strong fleet.

Every week, 11 million customers pass through our doors and over 110,000 colleagues across the business work hard each day to deliver great service to them. We cover more than 11 million households with our Morrisons.com service. With competitive, permanently low prices we are committed to helping our customers save money every day.

We are foodmakers and shopkeepers and #wemakemorrisons.

Why not hear what our teams about got to say about life here at Morrisons: Click here.

About You

The good news is you don't need to be fully HR qualified to apply for this role (although we'd love for you to be working towards one). But we do look for:

The ability to work in a fast paced People environment (logistics experience would be good, but isn’t essential)

A proactive, positive approach to work with a true customer focus

The ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines

Exposure to HR Systems

Excellent all-round IT skills (especially Microsoft Excel)

Experience of advising and supporting colleagues and managers with foundation level people queries

An understanding of HR policies and practices

Proactive approach to own continuous development

Experience of implementing processes

The ability to act on own initiative

In return for your hard work we will offer you:

Six weeks holiday (including bank holidays)

15% discount in our stores available from the day you join us

Additional 10% discount card for a friend or family member

Career progression and development opportunities

Subsidised staff canteen

Free parking

Market leading pension and life assurance

Healthcare/Well-being benefits including Aviva Digital GP

Morrisons MyPerks with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more

Long Service Awards

Optional Payroll charity donations

Enhanced Family/maternity/parental leave