HR Generalist, Month

Role Introduction:

We seeking to onboard a HR Generalist to join our team, for a fixed term of 12 months to cover a maternity leave. This role will form part of the ROI People team and reports to Head of People Ireland. This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to build and grow in their HR career. The successful candidate will be a confident people person who can fit into the Retail Operations function seamlessly and adopt a hands-on approach.

Key Responsibilities:

- Provide HR advice to Line Managers and employees throughout all stages of the employee life cycle, ensuring advice is legally compliant and in line with company policy & procedure.

- Partner with line management and HR management to ensure that HR policies and practices are rolled out and implemented appropriately across the business to optimise business performance.

- Oversee end to end recruitment support, including managing hiring process of senior retail positions.

- Responsible for workforce planning, coordinating hiring events, and partnering with retail teams and emerging food brands to proactively meet evolving recruitment needs.

- Ensure smooth operational practices for all HR initiatives and services by proactively resolving HR issues, thus accelerating the execution of the business strategy and objectives.

- Design and deliver in-house management training programmes.

- Advise and mentor line management in the effective operation of the performance management process and contribute to the identification of appropriate development and skills training programmes.

- Manage reward and benefits offering ensuring it’s competitive in the retail market and aligned to our company’s strategy and business goals.

- Build on and work closely with external support resources in the delivery of best practice HR processes and compliance.

- Enhance employee experience through HR initiatives that drive sustainable engagement with a focus on inclusion & diversity in the workplace.

- Maintenance of the companies cloud based HCM system SAP SuccessFactors.

- Report on metrics across the business as required.

The Candidate should have the following:

Qualifications and Experience:

- Honours Degree in HR, Business Studies or other related discipline is essential;

- 2-3 years’ experience;

- Strong interpersonal, influencing, coaching and communication skills with the ability to build effective relationships with all stakeholders;

- Strong working knowledge of employment law is required;

- Self-motivated & resilient with the capacity to work under pressure;

- Attention to detail;

- A track record of delivery of outstanding business performance and results;

Additional Key Skills & Attributes:

- A dynamic individual who adapts well to change and can thrive in an organisation which is rapidly growing and evolving.

- A highly organised individual with ability to plan and organise own workload effectively for maximum impact and work flexibly around changing priorities as required.

- Ability to execute directly at high quality and pace.

- A ‘can do’ attitude and a positive solution focused mindset.

- Committed to their role, with a strong work ethic, and ambitious in building their future capability and career.

- A strong focus on innovations and trends and invests in their external network.

- Has strong commercial acumen.

- Ability to engage and develop relationships with individuals at all levels of the organisation.

- Is a self-starter who is driven and can work on own initiative.

- Is resilient and calm under pressure.

- Has sound judgement and objective logical decision-making skills.

- A team player, with exceptional interpersonal skills, and ability to influence.

- Has strong leadership potential and management skills, who will be a role model for the people and culture at Applegreen.

- Willing to travel ad hoc if required.

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