Ref: LM23 – 1316
Location: London (Hybrid)
Salary: £28,000 - £30,000 + benefits
Type: Permanent

HR & Payroll Administrator

We are looking for a fast-paced, high potential HR Administrator who has great attention to detail, ability to prioritise and flexible attitude.

Reporting to the highly respected HR Manager and working in a closely-knit team, you will deliver an effective payroll and general HR administrative support for all staff in UK.

You will work in partnership with external partners and have great Excel skills using look-ups, pivot tables and formulas. You will be actively involved in recruitment activity and be the first point of contact for HR queries.

This role is hybrid with 2 days working from the office in London.

Key Responsibilities;

• Delivers high quality, detailed HR documentation as required (employee contracts, contract amendments etc.) for the UK office.
• Manages all employee’s electronic and paper filing.
• Liaises with external payroll partner and updates the payroll system with any relevant changes.
• Responsible for handling the monthly payroll inputs and handling employee queries, related to the same.
• Responsible for generating any necessary payroll related reporting as requested by the various business units locally represented in the UK office
• Supports all employees with HR requests (leaver documents, reference requests, payroll documents etc).
• Responsible for timely reporting of company benefits and manages the same for all employees.
• Creates job advertisements according to recruitment needs and manage job portals accordingly.
• Coordinates recruitment process for the UK Office where relevant (CV selection, phone screens, interview organising with managers, job offer confirmation).
• Manages the Induction training for all newcomers for the UK Office.
• Undertakes all administration tasks relevant to HR on Workday.
• Provides support to the HR Manager to keep HR policy up to date in line with relevant employment law.
• Provides support to employees & managers on employee lifecycle.

We are looking for someone who can evidence or demonstrate the following:

• Prior knowledge of a payroll system and easiness in approaching/using new systems
• Strong payroll, recruitment and HR admin experience in a fast-paced commercial environment, ideally gained within the travel or retail sector.
• Solid understanding and working experience of UK Employment law.
• Experience of working in a matrix environment.
• Experience working with an HR Information System (Workday would be ideal).

Please Note – we are looking for someone who can start fairly quickly. This role offers plenty of opportunity to add value in fun friendly HR team.

Purple House works with clients and candidates from all HR disciplines across the whole of the UK. We are committed to resourcing, assessing and selecting the best talent available on behalf of our clients.

If you are interested in this role or would like to discuss it in more detail please forward your CV to Louise McMilan or call on 0117 957 4100. Please remember to quote the job reference number in all correspondence with Purple House Recruitment Ltd.

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Ref: TM23-1314
Location: London (+ some travel)
Salary: c£80,000 +good benefits
Type: Permanent

Our client, a specialist in their field, is looking for a Group HR Executive to work in an influential and varied capacity during a period of rapid growth and organisational change. Working in a fast paced and high intellect SME environment, you will collaborate with members of the executive, leadership and operational teams to support the c. 300 employees. Within the role you will need to provide high quality business partnering and employee relations, as well as generalist HR support to ensure that they attract, develop and retain high calibre talent and deliver the organisational goals

You will line manage and take an active role in supporting and developing a small HR team with the potential for the HR team to grow with the growth of the organisation.

You will play a key role in inspiring, facilitating and leading change and partnering teams to ensure that the right roles, capabilities and commitments are in place to deliver an ambitious growth strategy. You will be an agile learner, who is comfortable operating within ambiguity and proactive in making things happen.

Group HR Executive Responsibilities

• Partner with the leaders of the Group functions to provide support and deliver actions that will drive people and organisational performance.
• Integrate the people & culture strategy into business strategies.
• Review and reshape how functions and organisational structures are set up which best support growth and development.
• Lead on restructuring or cultural change projects to deliver the organisations blueprint.
• Mobilise the HR Team to ensure effective hiring strategies and further ensure that teams are recruiting for the future, as well as the now, and help to build the employer brand globally.
• Ensure the framework for talent movement and succession is in place.
• Ensure key roles are resourced with talent, future leaders developed and career paths supported.
• Develop and champion a high performance culture across Group functions.
• Coach, influence, up-skill and encourage leaders to provide clear direction, and line managers to provide continuous goal clarity, feedback and development.
• Ensure employee focused and efficient HR and training support is in place which best supports employee development and empowerment.
• Ensure HR compliance and regulatory controls are in place.
• Create an effective employee relations system that ensures that all ER issues are dealt with in an expeditious and pro-active manner.
• Design and implement effective remuneration and benefits schemes which best retain top talent.
• Ensure that robust and efficient employee wellness and assistance programmes are implemented and that line management is sufficiently trained in respect of these initiatives

Skills and Experience

• Substantial experience in general HR management ideally with some experience in Life Science or Healthcare, Pharmaceutical or Manufacturing.
• Degree qualified with an advanced CIPD qualification.
• Experience in leading and developing an HR team.
• Able to demonstrate strong change leadership experience and delivered strategic people and culture initiatives that have positively impacted business and employee performance.
• Demonstrated experience of engaging and influencing senior stakeholders in a multifaceted business.Experience of having partnered with commercially astute and highly intellect strategic thinkers.
• Experienced at working with speed, pragmatism and professionalism.
• Articulate with the credibility and gravitas to effectively influence a highly educated workforce.

This is a great opportunity to make a difference and add value within a growing business.

 

Purple House works with clients and candidates from all HR disciplines across the whole of the UK. We are committed to resourcing, assessing and selecting the best talent available on behalf of our clients.

If you are interested in this role or would like to discuss it in more detail please forward your CV to Tom Mornement or call on 0117 957 4100. Please remember to quote the job reference number in all correspondence with Purple House Recruitment Ltd.

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Ref: LM - 1310
Location: Taunton/Hybrid
Salary: Up to £34,000 p.a.
Type: Permanent

This is a brand new role arising from a recent restructure and supporting our client going through significant change.

Reporting into the HR Operations Manager you will provide an effective and efficient HR Advisory service in line with policies and procedures, employment legislation and best practice.

As well as managing a varied and often complex caseload of employee relations issues and responding to the whole employee lifecycle queries. There are a number of HR projects and programmes you can contribute in the delivery.

A confident communicator you will lead training sessions for managers on HR policies, process and other HR initiatives. And be good at establishing and developing strong working relationships at all levels from the senior team, to colleagues.

You’ll bring with you experience of HR IT systems and have a desire to utilise the HR system as much as possible to produce KPIs and stats that will impact on how HR is delivered.

Person Specification
• Ideally CIPD qualified or working towards with significant generalist HR experience
• Experience of identifying and developing a range of effective office processes/systems, ensuring maintenance and improvements.
• Excellent knowledge of employment legislation in all areas, able to put knowledge into practice in protecting the company from liability.
• Need a good ideas person who is resilient, ‘can-do’ and who can make things happen.
• Friendly, approachable, and able to relate to all levels of this business.
• Excellent and highly developed time management skills with the ability to recognise and respond to conflicting priorities or sudden unexpected demands and adjust tasks as required.
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Exceptional Knowledge of Microsoft Office

This role might suit an experienced HR Administrator looking for that next step in their HR career or someone looking to transition into HR.

Purple House works with clients and candidates from all HR disciplines across the whole of the UK. We are committed to resourcing, assessing and selecting the best talent available on behalf of our clients.

If you are interested in this role or would like to discuss it in more detail please forward your CV to Louise McMilan or call on 0117 957 4100. Please remember to quote the job reference number in all correspondence with Purple House Recruitment Ltd.

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Ref: FV23-1315
Location: Swindon/North Bristol with some Travel
Salary: £35-40,000 p.a.
Type: Permanent

Learning & Performance Partner

Our client, a reputable customer facing organisation with multiple locations across the UK is looking for a creative Learning & Development Partner with a passion for helping people be the best they can be.   Reporting into the high energy, very engaging and highly reputable Senior OD Partner the role is to work closely with the OD Team to develop and implement and deliver leading edge talent development initiatives for both their Head Office and customer facing branch network.    These people work quickly and are hugely commercial and therefore your ideas and your ability to execute L&D initiatives that enable their success and set them up for the future need to be equally impressive.

This role will be home based in that travel will be paid from home, and there will be travel required to the main offices in Swindon, Bristol and the branches across the UK.   On average you will be working on site (Head office or the branches) 3 days a week and 2 days a week from home.  All travel – especially distant locations will be planned significantly in advance.

Responsibilities

• Design Learning & Development tools and solutions for management, behavioural and technical skills in line with business needs.
• Deliver a variety of development programmes e.g. management and leadership development, inductions, sales and product training both at Head Office and also within the customer facing branch network across the UK.
• Coach employees, whether it’s a one off session for a specific challenge or as part of a longer term development programme
• Undertake training needs analysis
• Benchmark training solutions against external solutions to ensure forward thinking approaches
• Support succession planning and internal talent management
• Work on Adhoc L&D projects and interventions as required and identified.
• Build on existing e-Learning offer to identify other training opportunities to go online

Person Specification

• In depth experience of providing truly innovative and adding value learning and development initiatives, preferably in a multi-site customer facing organisation, such as retail or hospitality.
• Evidence of career progression within one organisation, having been rewarded with a promotion for doing a good job.
• Preferably able to evidence of having designed and delivered training initiatives which support development of both leadership and customer facing personnel.  However, people who have inspired and trained others in different capacities may also be considered.
• A proven track record of supporting the full talent and training lifecycle.
• Able to apply a consultancy approach with the credibility to coach and influence at all levels.
• Able to evidence improving leadership capability
• Demonstrable levels of business awareness and commercially astute
• Superb relationship building skills and able to engage people to embrace new ways of working.
• What’s most important is your positive energy, can do attitude and evidence of going beyond your remit to get a great job done.

We are looking for some who can design and deliver totally engaging training programmes as well as someone who can bring new ideas and innovative solutions to develop fast paced personnel. This role would offer a high potential candidate the autonomy to add value and make a difference.

Purple House works with clients and candidates from all HR disciplines across the whole of the UK. We are committed to resourcing, assessing and selecting the best talent available on behalf of our clients.

If you are interested in this role or would like to discuss it in more detail please forward your CV to Tom Mornement or call on 0117 957 4100. Please remember to quote the job reference number in all correspondence with Purple House Recruitment Ltd.

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Ref: FV23-1308A
Location: Thornbury, North Bristol
Salary: £30-32,000 p.a.
Type: Permanent

HR Administration Team Leader

We are currently working with a values driven charitable organisation based just north of Bristol to help find them a proactive, ambitious HR Administration Team Leader who wants to add value and hopefully looking to progress into an HR Advisor role. The role is working on site in Thornbury, North Bristol and so you need to be living within close commuting distance.

Reporting to a newly appointed, engaging, inspiring and warm Head of HR this is a super opportunity to make a difference and they will consider people looking for both full-time or part-time (minimum 30 hours a week).

Key Responsibilities:

• Support, manage, develop and motivate an HR team of 3 to set up and maintain all operational HR systems, processes and files to ensure that all are up to date and accurate.
• Ensure that the recruitment procedure is fit for purpose and that social media is used effectively based on regular analyses of data.
• Develop, implement and maintain HR policies and procedures to ensure all are effective, lawful, fair and consistent and that the staff handbook is comprehensive and up-to-date.
• Oversee the recruitment via the UKVI portal for overseas applicants. Assist and support overseas employees to settle when arriving in the UK.
• Work closely with managers, providing them with guidance and quality advice on the full range of HR activities including policies and procedures, terms and conditions of employment, absence management, restructuring, performance management, employment law, maternity and paternity leave administration and flexible working requests. Manage health issues, occupational health issues and medical referrals.
• Support the finance team with all matters related to payroll.
• Provide support on employee relations issues including investigations, disciplinary, capability and grievance matters.
• Overseeing the induction of admin and HR staff.
• Take part in interview panels, when required, using safer recruitment techniques.
• Attend the weekly Training meetings, when required, and assist the Head of HR with the design, coordination and evaluation of the organisations comprehensive training framework.

Person Specification:

• Significant experience of adding value within a busy operational HR Administration environment especially with strong recruitment administration experience, on-boarding and new starters.
• Evidence of recent relevant professional development i.e. HR or Business Degree with HR or CIPD
• Experience of staff supervision in any capacity with the credibility to develop and motivate an HR Admin team.
• Preferably a graduate with 1 to 2 years’ experience in an HR Admin role.
• Someone who goes the extra mile, can identify areas for improvement and put in solutions.
• An excellent communicator who can present a new idea and gain engagement to new ways of working.
• Excellent IT skills and attention to detail.
• It would suit someone who has one or 2 years in HR admin (who’s had previous management experience elsewhere) who is looking for the next step up and to use their HR theory learned say through CIPD or an HR or Business degree to help create an adding value HR function.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who’s happy to roll up their sleeves and get on with whatever needs to be done and who wants to add value and make a difference.

Purple House works with clients and candidates from all HR disciplines across the whole of the UK. We are committed to resourcing, assessing and selecting the best talent available on behalf of our clients.

If you are interested in this role or would like to discuss it in more detail please forward your CV to Louise McMilan or call on 0117 957 4100. Please remember to quote the job reference number in all correspondence with Purple House Recruitment Ltd.

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Ref: TM23-1313
Location: London
Salary: c£75,000 + good benefits
Type: Permanent

HR Business Partner

Are you a true generalist HR Business Partner? If so, this role might be of interest to you. We are looking for an experienced HR Business Partner for this varied role. With a requirement to perform multiple duties, ensuring the successful and efficient running of our clients business. From recruitment and onboarding to payroll and performance cycles, you’ll be the sort of person who enjoys an environment where you wear many hats, and no two days are the same.

Whilst this role is based in the UK, our client has a truly global reach. Therefore, you will be responsible for adapting your approach to ensure compliance with convention in the different countries including (but not limited to) UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Australia, Luxembourg, Japan and USA.

HR Business Partner Responsibilities

• Serve as the credible subject matter expert on all matters relating to performance management, talent acquisition, compliance, employee relations, culture and values.
• Responsible for maintaining control over all expenses and budgets pertaining to the HR budget.
• Provide accurate monthly HR metric reporting and follow up with the Business Leaders; translate workforce data into meaningful plans for leaders to act upon. Identify and recommend areas of improvement.
• As per the company cycle:
  • Employee Engagement Survey – development, implementation and post-activities.
  • Employee Wellbeing activities – implement activities that support employee wellness and growth.
  • Talent and Succession Planning – drive talent management strategy powered by regular talent reviews and talent action meetings to build a strong leadership pipeline.
  • Performance Review Cycle – Encourage country leads and regional managers to develop a 360° feedback culture.

Skills and Experience

• c8 years of experience in general HR management ideally with 2+ years of experience in multi-site, international managerial role.
• Strong organizational, planning, prioritizing and administrative skills; ability to self-direct in a fast-paced, multi-task environment.
• Credible HR professional with a global mind-set, strong interpersonal skills and ability to build effective relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Experience in working with or in large global organisations.
• Strong problem solving and creative skills with the ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions based on accurate and timely analyses.
• Strong leadership, facilitation and influencing skills to support and counsel others.
• Proven experience in international recruitment processes for senior management positions.
• High level of integrity, dependability, and confidentiality.
• Ability to learn from experiences, capitalise on mistakes and seize opportunities.
• Experience working with global operations and diverse workforces.
• CIPD Level 7

For more information about this genuinely exciting opportunity please get in touch at your earliest opportunity.

Purple House works with clients and candidates from all HR disciplines across the whole of the UK. We are committed to resourcing, assessing and selecting the best talent available on behalf of our clients.

If you are interested in this role or would like to discuss it in more detail please forward your CV to Tom Mornement or call on 0117 957 4100. Please remember to quote the job reference number in all correspondence with Purple House Recruitment Ltd.

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Ref: TM23-1309
Location: Taunton
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 + car allowance and benefits
Type: Permanent

HR Business Partner

A new role has arisen for an experienced HR Business Partner to support one of our clients going through a significant period of change. Based in and around the West Country our client, a leading provider in the Care Industry, is embarking on a programme of restructuring and harmonisation following new investment.

Amongst other things you’ll oversee recruitment, training and development, employee relations along with the day-to-day HR support. This role will be busy, interesting and provides opportunity for you to make your mark with the support of the wider People and Culture Team.

This is an excellent opportunity for a proactive and commercial HR Business Partner who’s looking to work with a fast paced, leading edge businesses.

This role will suit a fast paced, solutions oriented individual who can communicate effectively at all levels. It is expected that there will be some travel to sites locally, the successful individual will be able to manage their own diary to incorporate some hybrid working.

Person Specification

We are looking for someone who can start immediately and evidence the following;

• Strong Employee Relations experience.
• Experience of owning HR activities.
• Experience of coaching managers on people processes and developing the tools and training necessary to embed this.
• Resilient and persistent, not afraid to have challenging conversations.
• Up to date Knowledge of employment law.
• Strong IT skills, particularly excel.
• Experience of managing, engaging stakeholders and driving forward HR projects.
• Able to flex your approach to adapt to the needs of an evolving, growing and changing environment.
• Being proactive with excellent problem solving skills.
• No airs and graces, willing to muck in and get on with whatever needs doing.
• Able to plan and organise workloads effectively.
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation and written communication skills.
• Well-developed influencing and negotiating skills.
• Good judgement; confident, persuasive, approachable and dependable.

 

This role will suit a commercially astute, Business Partner/Manager who wants to make a difference within an ambitious business within a fun, dynamic, fast paced culture.

Purple House works with clients and candidates from all HR disciplines across the whole of the UK. We are committed to resourcing, assessing and selecting the best talent available on behalf of our clients.

If you are interested in this role or would like to discuss it in more detail please forward your CV to Tom Mornement or call on 0117 957 4100. Please remember to quote the job reference number in all correspondence with Purple House Recruitment Ltd.

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Ref: FV23-1306
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Salary: c. £35,000 p.a. + great benefits
Type: Permanent

HR Advisor

We are currently seeking a proactive HR Advisor who is looking for a fast paced role and who is happy to work in an industrial engineering environment based in South Plymouth. This is primarily an operational role in a tough ER/IR and lean in HR environment.  It will give great opportunity to work on and resolve complex employee relations issues.  In order to work well in this environment you will need to be resilient with superb influencing skills.  Working closely with the remote fast paced Senior HRBP you also will help to drive forward positive adding value HR initiatives.

Working with the Snr HRBP and with the support of the 2 on-site HR Assistants this is a broad generalist role encompassing: full ownership of the recruitment process (c 30% of the role), employee relations, coaching/development and some really interesting adding value projects. You will partner line managers on HR/ER issues and people management processes, developing and delivering training initiatives that support the organisational goals. This will require a strong focus on coaching and developing managers to drive their effectiveness, supporting on any ER issues and recruitment, implementing engagement strategies and action plans and generally helping your stakeholders by adding value and providing solutions to their people issues.

It will give an ambitious HR Advisor lots of opportunity to develop and learn all aspects of operational HR. Based on site preferably 4 days a week, you will need to live within easy commute distance of South Plymouth. For exceptional candidates there may be the opportunity to work 3 days on site and 2 remote.The hours are early start early finish – 8am-4:15pm and finishing really early on Friday at 1:30pm! It also comes with great benefits: 5% bonus, 5% employer pension contribution and 25 days holidays + bank holidays.

Person Specification

• A strong HR Advisor with a broad generalist background including recruitment, Employee Relations and people development. Some coaching experience would be ideal.
• Preferably part or fully CIPD qualified.
• Experience of working effectively at HR Advisor Level, preferably in a private sector engineering, manufacturing or industrial organisation.
• Credible, with the gravitas and ability to influence at all levels especially in a male dominated shop floor environment.
• Strong business acumen and able to evidence adding value to the bottom line though the design and implementation of commercial HR Initiatives
• Results-oriented, meets commitments, takes a pro-active approach
• Happy to roll up sleeves and get on with whatever needs doing.

This is a broad and very varied generalist role with lots of autonomy and no two days are the same.

Purple House works with clients and candidates from all HR disciplines across the whole of the UK. We are committed to resourcing, assessing and selecting the best talent available on behalf of our clients.

If you are interested in this role or would like to discuss it in more detail please forward your CV to Louise McMilan or call on 0117 957 4100. Please remember to quote the job reference number in all correspondence with Purple House Recruitment Ltd.

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