HR Graduate

HR Graduate – Internal HR
Location: Wilmslow office 3 days a week and home with occasional travel
Working Hours: Full time. If you’re looking for a role to kick-start your HR career this is the perfect opportunity. You’ll be part of a small fast-paced internal HR team and you will get involved in everything to make sure you get a great grounding in HR to provide you with the perfect launch pad for your future in HR. Here at Citation, we know that you sustainably raise business performance through engagement and that leadership and culture are key to this. In the internal HR team, our whole reason for being is to attract, retain and develop great people in line with our culture and values. You’ll get experience of the whole colleague life cycle from recruitment and onboarding, reward and payroll, learning and development, colleague engagement and ER issues you’ll get involved in it all. If you’ve got experience of working in HR or recruitment that’s really helpful but if you haven’t don’t worry. Ideally, you’ll have a degree in a relevant subject like HR, Business, Psychology. The role: It’s a true generalist position:
• HR Admin: A core part of your role will be helping to deliver our essential HR Admin, this gives you a great foundation in the basics of HR and will include things like: creating offers and contracts, preparing information for payroll, changes to T&C’s, right to work checks for new starters, maintaining HR systems, processing leavers, exit interviews etc
• Learning & Development: you’ll play a key role in coordinating and reporting some of our internal training and hopefully you’ll get involved in facilitating it too!
• Reward, Benefits and Payroll: you’ll be part of the team administering our colleague benefits (healthcare and colleague awards etc.) and will work closely with the payroll team to ensure colleagues get paid correctly in a timely manner as we know pay and benefits are really important.
• Employee Relations (ER): you may start with note-taking in investigations and probation reviews but we’d like to get you involved in all of our ER activities, whether that’s discipline, grievances or something more complex.
• Project work: there’s always lots changing in Citation so there will always be project work for you to get involved in, whether that’s a new benefit we’re considering, an engagement activity, internal communications, implementing new policy, improving processes etc
• Colleague Engagement: driving high colleague engagement is fundamental to us so will be a key part of what you do whether that’s supporting with surveys or organising space hopper races in the office it all helps.
About you: • Really good interpersonal skills, you’ll be liaising with everyone from candidates to the MD all whilst living and breathing our culture and values.
• Attention to detail
• Passionate about HR
• Quick learner
• The human touch when it comes to working with others along with the ability to work confidentially
• Can do attitude and ready to get stuck into whatever comes your way Here’s a taste of the perks we roll out for our extraordinary team members: • 25 Days of Holiday: We’re talking sun-soaked beaches, snow-capped mountains, or simply your favourite cosy spot at home. Take your well-deserved break with 25 days of holiday, plus those cherished bank holidays.
• Birthday Bliss: Your birthday isn’t just another day on the calendar; it’s YOUR day! Enjoy it in style with a day off, because at Citation, we believe in celebrating YOU.
• Post-Wedding Bliss: Newlyweds, we’ve got something special for you too! Extra weeks of holiday to bask in the glow of post-wedding happiness.
• Growing Families: We’re all about supporting our Citation family, and that includes expectant parents. Vouchers and special perks await to celebrate the newest addition to your family.
• Healthcare cash plan: Your well-being is our priority. That’s why we offer private healthcare to ensure your peace of mind and keep you feeling your best. Hit Apply now to forward your CV.