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People (HR) Assistant

As aPeople 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
Why not take a look around one of our Distribution/Manufacturing sites?Click here. 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
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.

Why not hear what our teams about got to say about life here at Morrisons:Click here.

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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Woodheads, Spalding, United Kingdom, PE11 3YY

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

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.

  • 1

    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.

  • 2

    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.

  • 3

    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!

  • 4

    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).

  • 5

    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.  

  • 6

    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. 

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 Myton Food Group

At Myton Food Group, we have a legacy to be proud of. We’re British farming’s biggest single direct customer. We buy from highly valued suppliers. And we’re passionate about the quality of our food.

Since we opened our first produce factory, Cutler, in 1976, we’ve been rolling up our sleeves and getting busy. Today, we have 19 manufacturing sites across the UK, where we pack and process fresh meats and fish, savoury and sweet pies, fruit and veg, flower bouquets, bread and lots more.

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MytonStories

  • Josh

    Engineering Apprentice

    "

    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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  • Pierre

    Production Leader

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    Morrisons has pushed me to find out what I'm capable of, and my goal is to seek out more opportunities within the business.

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  • Nazreen

    Operative - Production

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    I love the variety in my role, including job rotation, working with different people.

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  • Raja

    Manufacturing Line Leader

    "

    I love working at Myton Manufacturing because it provides flexibility with shifts for me to support with my family.

    "
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  • Jake

    Line Leader - Production

    "

    The business has helped me through thick and thin, to where I'm becoming someone I didn't think I could be. 

    "

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