HR Officer

Ethypharm; Romford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday 25-30 days

Holiday Buy/Sell

Discretionary bonus

Bravo Benefits Platform

EV salary sacrifice

Private Healthcare

Pension Scheme

Job summary

Ethypharm is hiring an HR Officer in Romford to support HR operations, onboarding, and employee lifecycles. You will handle recruitment inboxes, maintain HRIS data, and provide admin support with confidentiality and accuracy. This role requires strong organisational skills and a proactive, service‑miented approach.

Join a team focused on collaboration and employee experience, with on-site presence at the Romford facility and a standard Monday–Friday schedule. Right to work in the UK is required.

Qualifications

• Educated to A-Level or equivalent standard.
• At least 1 year of previous experience in an administrative role within HR.
• Understanding of basic employment law and HR best practices.
• Strong data entry, record-keeping and administrative skills, with a focus on accuracy and data integrity.
• Competent user of MS Office and HR systems (HRIS/ATS).
• Experience supporting recruitment and onboarding activity.

Responsibilities

• Act as the first point of contact for the HR team, providing a friendly, professional, and helpful service to employees and supporting a positive employee experience.
• Manage the HRUK and recruitment inboxes, responding to routine queries promptly, ensuring recruitment-related communications are actioned in a timely manner, and escalating complex or sensitive matters appropriately.
• Maintain a visible HR presence on site, building strong relationships and delivering a responsive service to operational teams.
• Coordinate and support the onboarding process for new employees, acting as the main contact during the onboarding period and ensuring new starters are informed, engaged, and prepared from day one.
• Ensure timely coordination of onboarding documentation, systems access, and other new starter requirements.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date employee records in the HRIS, ensuring data integrity and compliance with GDPR and data protection requirements at all times.
• Provide comprehensive administrative support across the employee lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, contractual changes, benefits administration, and offboarding.
• Prepare employment contracts, offer letters, contractual change letters, and other HR documentation accurately and in a timely manner.

Education

A-Level or equivalent

Job description

Job Description

HR Officer

Location: Romford

Contract Type: Full-time, permanent

Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 5:00pm

Right to work: Please note that Ethypharm is unable to provide sponsorship for this role. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK.

What You Will Do

Your Key Responsibilities Include

• Act as the first point of contact for the HR team, providing a friendly, professional, and helpful service to employees and supporting a positive employee experience.
• Manage the HRUK and recruitment inboxes, responding to routine queries promptly, ensuring recruitment-related communications are actioned in a timely manner, and escalating complex or sensitive matters appropriately.
• Maintain a visible HR presence on site, building strong relationships and delivering a responsive service to operational teams.
• Coordinate and support the onboarding process for new employees, acting as the main contact during the onboarding period and ensuring new starters are informed, engaged, and prepared from day one.
• Ensure timely coordination of onboarding documentation, systems access, and other new starter requirements.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date employee records in the HRIS, ensuring data integrity and compliance with GDPR and data protection requirements at all times.
• Provide comprehensive administrative support across the employee lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, contractual changes, benefits administration, and offboarding.
• Prepare employment contracts, offer letters, contractual change letters, and other HR documentation accurately and in a timely manner.

We are seeking a well-organised and approachable HR professional with strong attention to detail and a proactive approach. Confident in handling a varied workload, you will build positive relationships while maintaining confidentiality and providing reliable HR support.

Basic Skills And Qualifcations

• Educated to A-Level or equivalent standard
• At least 1 year of previous experience in an administrative role within HR
• Understanding of basic employment law and HR best practices
• Strong data entry, record-keeping and administrative skills, with a focus on accuracy and data integrity
• Competent user of MS Office and HR systems (HRIS/ATS)
• Experience supporting recruitment and onboarding activity

What We Offer You

• Up to £33,700 salary per annum
• Holiday - 25 days rising to 30 with length of service plus bank holidays
• Holiday Buy/Sell - an opportunity to buy or sell up to an additional 5 days' holiday
• 3% Bonus - In addition to our competitive salaries, all our employees are entitled to join a discretionary bonus scheme (based on policy eligibility)
• Bravo Benefits Platform - offering a variety of discounts across well-being and lifestyle
• Salary Sacrifice scheme for Electric vehicles with Tusker (dependent on meeting policy eligibility)
• Private Healthcare for yourself and your family (if applicable) with an additional Medicash health cash plan
• Pension Scheme

About Us

Ethypharm is a leading mid-sized international pharmaceutical company, with strong European roots, that manufactures and provides essential medicines, with a focus on hospital care, central nervous system (severe pain and addiction) and internal medicine.

Ethypharm has 1,700 employees dedicated to its various pharmaceutical activities, of which 1400 are in industrial operations. Our six production sites located in France, the UK, Spain, and China have expertise in injectables and complex oral solid forms.

At Ethypharm, you will be a part of a team dedicated and committed to improving patients’ lives.

Our Romford facility located 20 miles from the centre of London, consists of over 6700 square metres of a high-quality, modern pharmaceutical facility where we mix, fill, sterilise, inspect, pack, and label a wide range of medicines.

Why Ethypharm?

We provide a workplace which is one of collaboration, teamwork and innovation. We are all different and we embrace this uniqueness in each and every one of our employees. Our commitment to you is that we want to help you unleash your full potential by supporting your training and development. We want you to be the best that you can be.

At Ethypharm we recognise the value of diversity in the workplace and provide equal opportunities for all. We are always open to discussing flexible working arrangements where this meets with the needs of our business.