People (HR) Assistant

Morrisons; Northwich; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Six weeks holiday

15% staff discount

Career progression and development

Job summary

Morrisons is seeking a People Administrator / Assistant to support the day-to-day HR operations across our sites. You will handle payroll accuracy, data records, and cycle reporting while providing excellent service to colleagues.

This role is ideal for someone pursuing HR qualifications and keen to develop in a fast-paced retail environment. Reporting to the People Specialist, you will support recruitment, audits, and policy implementation, building strong relationships with managers, unions,

Qualifications

• Experience supporting HR queries and payroll administration.
• Proficient IT skills with Excel.
• Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines.
• Exposure to HR systems.
• Willingness to work towards HR qualification.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day HR administrative tasks across the site.
• Ensure payroll accuracy and timely payment to colleagues.
• Maintain records, files and spreadsheets in line with data protection laws.
• Coordinate weekly HR audits and reporting.
• Assist with recruitment and onboarding at site level.
• Communicate HR policies and support line managers on absence and disciplinary matters.

Skills

HR administration

Excel

HR systems

Customer service

Proactive mindset

Tools

HRIS

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:

• 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 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

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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