HR Assistant

Do you consider yourself an organised and driven individual? Are you a people person? Do you want to make an impact in our company's working culture? If so, then this could be the role for you!

An amazing opportunity has arisen to join our HR Team on a 6-month fixed term contract. The role will be reporting directly to the Site HR / People Advisor based in Stafford supporting our shared service team. The relevant candidate will be administering HR related documentation, such as invite letters, maternity/paternity letters, on-boarding process of new employees.

The role will be predominantly Monday to Friday 08:00-16:00 although flexibility will be required.

Pay, benefits and more:

You’ll receive a salary of up to £28,000 per annum and receive 25 annual leave. Your benefits package includes a company pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, extensive retail discounts across all the big retailers including supermarkets, fashion, technology, travel, days out, hair & beauty, sports and much more, continuous training and development opportunities and extensive wellbeing programs and initiatives accessible to all employees.

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Administering HR related documentation, such as invite letters, maternity/paternity letters, on-boarding process of new employees, including induction process etc
• Ensuring the HR filing systems are maintained
• Maintaining and updating trackers including weekly and monthly reports
• Supporting the Managers and People Team with ER issues particular with low level complexity absence, disciplinary and grievance issues including advice, minute taking, supporting meeting and writing relevant correspondence

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Ideally, you’ll be currently working in a HR environment with some experience, or it may be that you’ve just completed or working towards your CIPD and you’re looking for the first step into the HR world 
• You’ll be a confident communicator with the ability to communicate to a variety of stakeholders
• You’ll be proactive and have a solution driven approach
• Organised nature for handling employee records/files

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. Review GXO's candidate privacy statement here.