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People Specialist

Looking to take your HR career to the next level? This is your chance to step into a role where you're not just supporting the culture, you're shaping it. As a People Specialist, you'll be the go-to expert on all things HR on site. You'll work closely with the People Manager, lead a small team of People Assistants, and play a key part in building a workplace where colleagues feel supported, valued, and empowered to thrive. This is a site based positions, in the heart of the action. You will predominantly work Monday - Friday, however flexibility will be required to support our site on some weekends and late shifts. What you'll be doing:
  • Partnering with managers to build confident, people first leadership
  • Delivering smart, cost effective recruitment that brings in great talent to the business
  • Leading engaging and effective site wide communications
  • Driving colleague engagement to reduce absence and boost engagement
  • Coaching managers on employee relations, disciplinary, and grievance processes
  • Supporting succession planning activity
  • Owning payroll accuracy - making sure everyone is paid correctly and on time
  • Building trusted relationships with unions and agency partners
  • Taking charge of absence and sick pay, ensure a fair and cost effective approach
Find out more about Logistics by visiting our site here!

About you

You're confident, people savvy, and ready to get stuck in, You can juggle the fast pace of distribution with the calm, considered approach of a true HR pro. You will need:
  • Experience in a fast moving, agile HR environment (ideally Logistics, Manufacturing or Retail)
  • CIPD qualification or equivalent HR experience
  • Strong HR systems skills and knowledge
  • Solid knowledge of employment law and core HR processes
  • Confidence to challenge, coach, and influence at all levels
  • Great communication skills
  • A proactive, can do mindset and a flexible approach to work
  • A genuine passion for culture, development and making work better for everyone
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 More Card for a friend or family member
  • Career progression and development opportunities
  • Subsidised staff canteen
  • Free parking
  • Market leading pension and life assurance
  • Healthcare/Wellbeing 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

With seven sites across the UK, we make over 1,000 deliveries to our stores each day ensuring our customers have the right products at the right time.

Behind the scenes in our fast moving warehouses, we’re powered by great people and cutting edge technologies. This is a vast network of distribution centres and transportation fleets, ensuring we’re able to meet availability needs of our customers.

Moving products is what we love, and we’re also making more sustainable choices, from reducing waste to running a safer, smarter operation. When it comes to Logistics we don’t just deliver, we bring fresh ideas, to go further!

Reward & Benefits

We've highlighted below some of our standard Rewards & Benefits that our colleagues receive.  Please note, some roles come with additional benefits such as bonus, company car allowance etc. you'll find further details where applicable in our adverts, or you can speak to someone in our resourcing team for more information. 

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Plan your journey

Northwich, United Kingdom, CW9 7WA
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Learning and development is at the heart of our business

As you can imagine, Morrisons is a busy place to be. There’s lots going on - processes, changes, new initiatives, different ways of working. And that’s just on a Monday morning.

It means there’s a lot to learn. But learning isn’t just about understanding what’s involved in day-to-day workloads. It’s also about growing and developing in your career, too. That’s why we’ve made sure that learning and development is at the heart of our business. We’re here to make sure everyone has everything they need to be their best - and to go as far as they want.

Discover Learning & Development at Morrisons
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Our DE&I workstreams

We're proud to have a diverse group of colleagues working here. We want everyone to feel valued in an environment where we promote respect, where they feel a sense of belonging, and feel celebrated as individuals.

These are the moments that matter to them - and they matter to us, too.

Everyone is welcome to get involved in our Ethnic Diversity, Ability, LGBTQ+, Women, and Family & Carers workstreams, too. They’re designed to help us better reflect our customers, colleagues, and communities so we can become an even more inclusive business.

As a business, we love bringing people together. And we think it’s one of the biggest reasons to be part of our team.

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Our Process

We've outlined below what our typical process looks like, this can vary slightly depending upon the role or team you've applied for. Our goal is to provide a positive and accessible experience for all applicants, ensuring everyone has the support they need to showcase their best selves.

Our resourcing team are on hand to help with any questions about your application and you can reach them by e-mailing resourcing@morrisonsplc.co.uk.

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    Find an opportunity that's right for you

    Once you've found a role that's right for you, you can apply via this site. If it's your first time applying with us then we'll need all your essential information and we might ask you to upload your most recent CV. If you've applied for roles with us before then we should recognise you and you won't need to share these details again, unless something has changed that you need to update us on.

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    Online Assessment (Customer Assistant roles)

    After your application, we might send you an e-mail and ask you to complete an online assessment. This is typically a situation judgement test where we'll ask you ten questions with mutliple choice answers and takes around 10-15 minutes to complete. The questions will give you a feel for the types of scenarios you might encounter working in our stores - think customer first.

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    Let's find out more

    For some of our stores and site roles, if you've been successful with your application we might just e-mail and ask you to book a slot for your interview. For other roles our resourcing team will get in touch with you to find out a bit more about you and why you applied. They'll also answer any questions you might have about us and the role. After all, it's a two way process!

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    Interview

    Our interviews are typically face to face but can sometimes be virtual. Don't worry, we'll advise either way. Your interview can differ depending on the role or team. Part of the interview may include some competency questions against our Ways of Working (listed below).

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    Final Stage

    With some of our roles there might be a second interveiw. This tends to be for roles in our Head Office and some salaried positions across our stores and sites. As part of this second stage, we might ask you to complete a task, such as a SWOT analysis or something similar, and present it back during the interview. This helps us understand your approach and thinking about the role.  

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    Decision

    Our resourcing team or the store or site you've applied to will be in touch with you as soon as they can to let you know the outcome.  If you've been successful we'll share the details of our offer with you and follow up with everything you need on e-mail. 

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Ways of Working

Our Ways of Working are like a set of values that define our core beliefs, guide decision-making, and shape our culture and how we operate. 

Customer First - I care about our customers and do everything I can to meet their needs 

Teamwork - I always play my part in the team, and I recognise we go further together 

Working Freely in a Framework - I’m trusted to make my own decisions and encouraged to improve things for customers and for us 

Care and Respect - We care more and try harder; for each other, for everyone around Morrisons  

Listen and Respond - I take the time to talk with and listen to colleagues and customers, and always do the right thing for the them 

Grow Sales, Low Cost - I understand my part in the end-to-end process and look for ways to drive improvement

Life at Morrisons offers more than you imagine.

We’re a Yorkshire based food manufacturer and retailer, and our story began with a simple market stall in Bradford all the way back in 1899. Today, we’re still just as committed to delivering on our promise of 'freshness from farm to fork' for every customer. It’s why we’ve grown to become one of the UK’s leading supermarkets. And, with 90,000 colleagues, nearly 500 stores, and 11 million customers every week, there are now more reasons to join us than you can imagine.

Find out more about Life at Morrisons

Logistics MorriStories

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    Gloria

    Key Operative - Warehouse & FLT

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    I started in the warehouse, picking, and then got onto pathways and now I’m a Manager. I was very supported.

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    Luca

    Logistics Degree Apprentice

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    I want to become a Senior Leader within Morrisons, so I want to give myself the opportunity, the experience and the tools with the support of my team.

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    Chevon

    Key Operative - Warehouse & FLT

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    The role keeps me on my toes which I want. 9 out of 10 times I get a workout when I’m at work, so that’s great.

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    Shaun

    Key Operative - Warehouse & FLT

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    I like the people I work with. I have the freedom to express myself and the support from managers.

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    Josh

    Engineering Apprentice

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    I love the people here! The colleagues that I work with are really supportive and the culture here is really nice to be a part of.

    "
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Meet the Recruiter

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Emily Reynolds

Resourcing Specialist - Logistics

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