People and Culture Assistant

2 months ago

London, United Kingdom Manolo Blahnik Full time

Department: People & Culture

Reports to: Senior People & Culture Advisor

Our Values:

  • Every day the energy, creativity and passion of Manolo permeates through our business.
  • We believe in the artist and the artisan; we are innovative while still protecting our heritage.
  • We strive for timeless beauty and quality craftmanship.
  • We celebrate curiosity and believe in working proactively and being solution focused.
  • We believe in upholding family values; we treat everyone with honesty, respect and kindness while nurturing our teams to deliver excellence.
  • We believe in making people smile.

Purpose:

To own and be the first point of contact on general employee life cycle and day-to-day operations of the team. This role is of a true generalist nature and will support all MB team members across all areas of PCT including payroll, benefits, managing the employee engagement calendar and ensuring a best practice approach.

Responsibilities:

  • HR Admin: Support in preparation of UK and French contracts, offer letters, apply for references, right to work checks etc.
  • HR Systems: Be an expert on our software packages, including ensuring data is kept up-to-date and provide reporting when required.
  • Induction and Onboarding Process: Manage the induction process for all Head Office and Retail team members.
  • Stakeholder Support: First point of contact for key touch points of employee life cycle process.
  • Employee Engagement: Proactively drive the MB culture to ensure it is one of engagement with a highly motivated workforce.
  • Employee Relations: Support in notetaking and any documentation when required.
  • Wellbeing Programme: Support with implementation, coordination and booking of the activities calendar.
  • CSR: Support the Manolo Blahnik CSR agenda with our chosen charities, as well as our fundraising and volunteering programmes.
  • Benefits: Be an expert on MB benefit package. Administer benefits, including private healthcare, season ticket loans, eye test vouchers, flu jabs, gym membership etc.
  • Milestones Policy: responsible for administering company milestones policy.
  • Probation: Manage employee probation periods, advise where necessary, create and issue letters.
  • Learning and Development: Support with coordination of training where necessary.
  • Payroll: Work with our external Payroll Bureau to ensure all payroll related queries are answered in a timely manner. Prepare monthly payroll changes to send to the relevant bureau.
  • Team Communication:Alongside the Senior People and Culture Advisor, responsible for answering queries in the PCT inbox and creating the monthly newsletter.
  • HR Processes: Responsible for support in maintaining and improving PCT processes as and when required.
  • Recruitment: Support the Talent Acquisition Partner with recruitment when required.
  • Support the team in the delivery of the People & Culture strategy and subsequent projects.
  • Maintain knowledge of industry trends and keep up to date on employment legislation changes ensuring these are reflected within MBIL PCT operations.

Any other tasks as requested.

Skills and Experience Required:

  • Experience in HR, preferably within a luxury brand, to include exposure across the HR spectrum; Employee Relations, Talent and Development, Recruitment, Reward, Recognition and Organisational Design.
  • Network: Ability to build relationships and network easily, both internally and externally.
  • Communication: Strong and effective presentation skills and ability to converse with a diverse range of people at all levels, with tact and diplomacy.
  • Accuracy: High level of finesse and excellence required in delivery of all tasks.
  • Pace: Ability to work in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment by being flexible and adaptable; remain calm.
  • Ability to prioritise tasks, and ensure delivery of results within tight deadlines.
  • Proficient in MS Office.
  • Excellent organisational skills.

Skills and Experience Desired:

  • CIPD part-qualification or qualified.
  • International HR experience.
  • Payroll Management experience.
  • Experience using SAP Success Factors.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion:

Manolo Blahnik is an equal opportunity employer and are committed to preserving a caring, diverse and inclusive culture with people who feel a real sense of belonging. We recruit and reward based on capability and performance. By joining Manolo Blahnik, you will be part of our 50 to 500 Commitment to “be a force for good” which seeks to create a lasting legacy and positively contributing to its continued expansion and success balancing our impact on people and the planet. Our diverse and multicultural teams ignite our creativity, and we celebrate the differences that we collectively bring. We are committed to equal employment and progression opportunities and the elimination of any form of discrimination. We all hold a responsibility to recognise and respect our diversity and to support this in our words and actions.

If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

Our Benefits:

  • 4 pairs of Ambassador Shoes per year.
  • 50% Friends and Family Discount.
  • 25 days holiday with an additional day off for your birthday, plus bank holidays.
  • Option to buy an additional 5 days holiday.
  • Hybrid working model
  • Pension Contribution.
  • Private Medical Insurance.
  • 2 Executive Coaching Sessions per year.
  • Enhanced Family Friendly Policy.
  • Workplace Nursery – salary sacrifice based childcare scheme.
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • Employment Engagement Calendar.

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