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HR assistant
1 month ago
Closing date: 22nd August 2024
Salary: £25,000 dependent on experience (+bonus +benefits)
Do you enjoy engaging with people and understand the importance of HR in a business?
We, Hachette UK Distribution, are the leading book distribution company in the UK. We are one of the most advanced distribution centres in Europe, with leading-edge automation and modern systems which will ensure world-class service to customers and publisher clients. We ship in excess of 60 million books globally each year and supply one out of every four books to the UK trade.
Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity.
Hachette UK Distribution is part of the Hachette UK publishing group.
Supporting across all stages of the employee lifecycle, this is a varied role that will see you managing and responding to a range of HR-related queries and ensuring that administration and payroll tasks are completed accurately and to deadline.
Key tasks
Producing all people-related paperwork e.g. contracts, changes to terms and conditionsManaging the HR inbox and responding to queries from colleagues and managersSupporting the recruitment process, including posting adverts, managing responses and coordinating shortlisting and interviewsProcessing payroll tasks and updating systems and trackersSupporting the HR Business Partners with ad hoc reporting, process administration, ER matters e.g. absence management, parental leaveSupporting the onboarding and offboarding of staff e.g. probation periods, exit interviewsOffering guidance on HR policy and processSupporting ad hoc projects and the HUKD people plan Who we're looking forWe are ideally looking for someone with previous HR administration experience, but more importantly, we are looking for someone that can juggle a number of priorities, is an excellent team player and exudes a positive 'can do' attitude.
You will be:
Organised and proactive, able to prioritise and work to deadlinesAble to communicate effectively, be approachable and build relationshipsCustomer-focused – managers, employees, colleagues and externally facingAt ease with processing payroll, numerical data and systems managementA dab hand at Excel would be a helpful attribute, as would previous use of HR information systemsKeen to work collaboratively as a team – both within HR and the wider businessEager to learn, spot process efficiencies and able to champion our people initiatives What we offerOur people are our greatest asset and our benefits reflect this.
Therefore, we offer an extensive list of benefits that include:
33 days annual holiday including Bank HolidaysPension Plan and Life Assurance schemesCompany enhanced family policy including maternity, paternity and shared parentalReward programme giving discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers2 Community Days per yearCycle to Work schemeEye care vouchersGenerous discounts on books we publishMental Health First Aiders / Champions and an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)Wide-ranging training libraryDevelopment Programmes including MentoringStaff Events e.g. Burrito van, Pie van, Ice Cream van, Staff PartyMany employee networks to joinFree onsite parkingFree tea and coffeeCreating an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self #Ibelong #AndSoDoYou #OneTeam Our commitmentHachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.
If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.
We will notify all candidates of the outcome of their application.
Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.
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