HR Assistant - Part Time

Morrisons; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Morrisons is seeking a People Administrator / Assistant to support HR operations in Wakefield. This role involves managing HR queries, payroll administration, and fostering positive relationships across the site. Ideal candidates will have a customer-focused approach and a proactive mindset, with opportunities for career progression and development.

Benefits

Six weeks holiday

15% store discount

Career progression opportunities

Subsidised staff canteen

Free parking

Market-leading pension

Healthcare benefits

Long Service Awards

Qualifications

• Experience advising and supporting colleagues with HR queries.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Proactive approach to continuous development.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to the HR team.
• Ensure payroll administration is accurate.
• Support the recruitment process as required.

Skills

Customer focus

Proactive approach

IT skills

Ability to work under pressure

Understanding of HR policies

Education

Working towards HR qualification

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

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:

1. Be the first point of contact for foundation level site People queries
2. Offer HR expertise to site colleagues and managers as necessary
3. Provide administrative support to the HR team
4. Ensure payroll administration is accurate and all colleagues get paid correctly and on time
5. Maintain records, files, and spreadsheets in line with data protection legislation
6. Keep ad-hoc analysis and reporting on HR issues up to date
7. Coordinate weekly HR audit checks
8. Support the recruitment process for the site as required
9. Become a subject matter expert on company HR policies, ensuring the site remains fully compliant at all times
10. Support, coach, and challenge line management with absence, disciplinary, and grievance issues
11. Develop engaging, proactive communications across the site
12. Build positive and effective relationships with unions, agency suppliers, colleagues, and stakeholders
13. Support and drive colleague engagement on site

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, gyms, and more
• Long Service Awards
• Optional Payroll charity donations
• Enhanced Family/maternity/parental leave

About us

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.

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