HR Administrator

HR Administrator Are you looking for an opportunity to develop your HR career within a supportive and fast-paced environment? Are you passionate about delivering an excellent employee experience and providing high-quality support to managers and colleagues across the business? We are seeking an HR Administrator to join our HR Connect team, where you will play a key role in providing professional HR and payroll administration, supporting employees throughout the employee lifecycle and helping to deliver an efficient and customer-focused HR service.

Your Role

As an HR Administrator, you will play a key role in delivering a professional, responsive and efficient HR shared service. Acting as a first point of contact for employees, managers and stakeholders, you will provide accurate advice and administrative support across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, employment changes, payroll-related activities and offboarding.

As a valued member of the HR Connect team, you will help shape the employee experience by delivering accurate, efficient and customer-focused HR support. Supporting key activities across the employee lifecycle, you will ensure HR and payroll processes run smoothly, records are maintained accurately and employees and managers receive timely and professional support.

What you'll bring

We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented individual with a genuine interest in developing a career within Human Resources. You will be an excellent communicator with strong organisational skills, capable of managing a varied workload and adapting to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment. A high level of accuracy, a customer-focused approach, and confidence using Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, are essential. Previous experience within an HR shared services or administrative environment would be advantageous, however we are equally keen to hear from candidates who demonstrate enthusiasm, a willingness to learn, and a commitment to personal development within HR.

Who are we?

Already one of the UK’s leading port and logistics companies, we are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UK’s leading port operator. We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers. Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040. Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.

What can we offer you

In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers. Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:

27 Days Annual Leave (plus bank holidays)

Up to 10% Matched Contribution Pension

Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, Critical Illness insurance, Gym Membership Scheme, Retail Vouchers, plus more!

Commitment to learning and personal development – Last year we supported over 50,000 hours of training and personal development!

We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our Employee Assistance Programme when required