Company Description

• Contract Type: Permanent 37.5 Hours Per Week
• Salary: Circa £29400
• Location: Smethwick, Roebuck Lane, B66 1BY
  Days of Work: Monday to Friday - hybrid role 3 days office based 2 at home
• Start Time: 9.00am - 5.30pm

Join us on our journey as we aim to be the UK’s most sustainable delivery company, whilst ensuring our customers continue to receive a world class service. You will be in a busy and fast paced business, with a turnover of nearly £2 billion, that can offer you great benefits and plenty of opportunities to progress your career

DPD are passionate about creating an environment that is open, ethical, inclusive and socially responsible.

When joining DPD you are not just starting a job, you are vital to our journey to be the most customer centric, inclusive, sustainable and leading parcel delivery provider within the UK who embraces and drives change, placing our people and our customers at the heart of what we do.

Along with job security, the tools to do the job and a competitive salary, you’ll receive fantastic benefits starting on day one, including never working on your birthday ever again!!!

DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for a personable and motivated HR Administrator (called internally People Administrator) to join our friendly and hardworking People and Talent HR Team.

In this role you will report directly to the People Administration Manager to provide a timely and effective administration service to DPD. You will work with a number of areas of the business and also be dealing with both internal and external stakeholders on a daily basis.

You will also be responsible for:

• Support the raising of contracts of employment for external and internal employees
• Raising maternity and paternity letters, and SMP Entitlement
• Actioning any contractual changes and issuing letters, such as leavers, promotions, change in employment details, etc
• Ensuring compliance with GDPR
• Raising announcements to the business to communicate changes in your business area’s
• Managing HR & Payroll system, ensuring quality, accuracy and timeliness in the process
• Liaising with internal departments and raising memo’s for additional IT equipment/ benefits associated to the different levels of roles i.e. Mobile phones, Car, Laptop, etc.
• Ensuring accurate information regarding cost centres, and org unit changes are obtained.
• Processing reference requests
• Updating and maintaining HR databases and intranet
• Check and update New Starter probationary log and send out relevant paperwork
• Produce reports on a daily, weekly and monthly basis

Qualifications

What we’re looking for:

As the successful candidate you will be passionate about delivering great service every day. You will have gained strong administration experience working within a fast paced environment, it would be advantageous if you had knowledge of recruitment or HR processes/ practices.

We also expect;

• Strong communication and administration skills
• Excellent organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage your own time effectively to ensure all of your tasks are completed with excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• High levels of resilience and self-motivation.
• Self starter with the ability to work autonomously and on your own initiative.
• Good levels of computer literacy G Suite/Microsoft Office
• A great team player who demonstrates the core DPD DNA values of Passion, Respect, Honesty, Flexibility, Hard Work and Accountability.

Additional Information

About our Benefits

We recognise that our people are at the heart of our business, without them we wouldn’t be able to deliver our award-winning service to millions of customers across the country each day. It’s important to us that we demonstrate our recognition of you in providing you with more than just a salary and job stability. To name but a few…

• Holiday trading
• Enhanced maternity and paternity package
• Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme
• Free onsite car parking for all employees
• Health Kiosks visiting every location
• Discounted shopping from 100’s of retailers including up to 5% off supermarket shopping
• Milestone Days off to celebrate with your family and friends
• For employees who regularly use a screen as part of their job we offer free eye tests and support with the cost of glasses

If you identify with our aims and values and can help us deliver our customers' promises, then this is the job for you! Apply today.