People and Culture Coordinator

Northampton Business Directory; Stony Stratford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the automotive sector is seeking a proactive HR professional to join their People Support team. This role involves managing onboarding, payroll processes, and ensuring compliance with employment laws while contributing to a dynamic team culture. Ideal candidates will have strong communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in a high-paced HR team.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and adjust priorities.
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Manage onboarding processes and checks for new joiners.
• Ensure accurate payroll information is collated and recorded.
• Act as key contact for employee queries relating to employment.

Skills

Communication

Attention to detail

Adaptability

Tech savvy

Tools

HR systems

Microsoft Office

Job description

Cadillac Formula 1 is excited to be on the grid for the 2026 FIA Formula One World Championship. Our new team is gearing up for rapid growth. To achieve our goals, we need to create and sustain a high-performance culture in every area. We have ambitious plans to build an outstanding operation that can compete at the highest level.

From exceptional Engineering and Design talent to a world-class race team, supported by specialists in off-track roles - we are assembling the expertise needed to drive this operation forward and compete at the highest level.

Being a part of this team, will accelerate your career. Take a closer look at the role:

Job Description:

As part of the People Support team, providing key HR support throughout the employee lifecycle. From managing onboarding checks, maintaining our HR systems and manual processes, completing accurate payroll submissions and benefits provision, maintaining our learning management system, and maintaining the routine life cycle activities and queries that come from a dynamic wider workforce, this role provides the critical ‘engine room’ and core fundamentals for our employees, delivered with exceptional service, accuracy and pace. As part of the wider People Support team, this role ensures compliance with employment laws and other regulatory requirements, including achieving appropriate approvals, respecting confidentiality and dignity of others. As a dynamic and growing team, we’re seeking a proactive individual eager to contribute to every aspect of our People and Culture remit. This role requires flexibility and a willingness to take on tasks beyond the outlined responsibilities, ensuring the People and Culture team achieves its goals and thrives.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead on managing the onboarding processes and checks for new joiners.
• Creating and/or cross-checking for employee lifecycle document creation, including producing new contracts, changes to employee terms and conditions and other employee details, including letter generation and system updates.
• Maintaining our HR systems and records, including trackers and our learning management platform.
• Provide and manipulate people data reporting from our HR systems and manual information.
• Key contact for employee queries relating to their employment, policies and procedures, owning every query to ensure whoever needs to resolve it has done so.
• Ensure all payroll information is accurately collated, recorded, and on time, on to our HR system and on data upload trackers for the payroll provider, eg new starters, salary adjustments, sickness, hours, leavers.
• Holding external Payroll supplier to SLAs, ensuring accurate and timely checks are completed before payroll approvals.
• Key contact for Payroll queries providing accurate responses within SLAs.
• Prepare other employee life cycle documentation and processes, ensuring new and changes to processes are captured and knowledge shared.
• Coordinating inductions, supporting employee activation events, providing support with our learning and development programmes.
• Other general HR and team activities support.

Requirements

• Experienced in working in a high paced, energetic HR team, able to prioritise and organise workload amongst team colleagues.
• Responsive to employee questions and committed to owning queries and improving employee experience.
• Adaptable, able to handle multiple tasks, adjusting the priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Tech savvy with a good knowledge across a range of Microsoft Office and other products, including HR systems.
• Payroll data collation experience with an external provider processing pay.
• Strong communication skills - able to explain HR queries and payroll outcomes.
• Attention to detail, consciousness and tenacious.
• Able to maintain strict and absolute confidentiality at all times.
• Skilled in working under pressure.
• Curious - wanting to learn and grow.
• Positively contribute to an open and inclusive culture.

Please note that additional security checks may be required as part of the recruitment process. This may include a background check covering a minimum of the past five years and a criminal record check.

Please be aware that we will be reviewing applicants on a rolling basis and this job posting will close once a suitable candidate is identified. We encourage all interested individuals to submit their application as soon as possible. As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity or marriage and civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

This job description reflects the major tasks to be carried out by the postholder and identifies the level of responsibility at which the postholder will be required to work. Subject to the discretion of the Company, the postholder will carry out the duties specified above together with such other duties or tasks for the Company as reasonably required. You may also be required to perform additional duties for the Company from time to time commensurate with your skills and experience.