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Our Industrial Placement Programme within People Operations will make you see retail in a new light. Our unique Partnership difference and approach to business will enable you to get the most out of your placement year. Our placements combine hands-on experience with real projects. You will also receive relevant on the job training.
The purpose of this 12 month student placement is to to support the People Service Centre and Resourcing Service Centre management teams to maximise the team’s expertise and knowledge to deliver the best service for all customers. During your time within People Operations, 6 months will be spent each in the People Service Centre and Resourcing Service Centre.
Within the People Service centre, time will be spent providing an advisory and administrative service by telephone and email to People Managers, Hiring Managers, Partners (past and present), and 3rd parties on a wide range of Partner lifecycle and policy queries. Within the Resourcing Service Centre, you will experience working on an end to end recruitment campaign, working closely with our experienced Resourcing Consultants to hire talent into the Partnership.
Responsibilities
- Provide excellent customer service to all People Managers, Hiring Managers, Partners (past and present), and 3rd parties, both personally and through coaching/supporting other team members, and always striving for first point assurance and resolution.
- Ensure the appropriate Partnership policies and procedures are followed, as well as Employment Law regulations
- Continuously explore opportunities to streamline processes and deliver efficiencies and works with others to come up with creative solutions
- Openly demonstrates a flexible and positive approach to tasks and has the ability to support multiple requests efficiently, and to agreed timescales whilst building and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.
About you
To be eligible for this role, you must be studying an undergraduate degree at university. As part of your degree, you will be taking a year out in industry commencing July 2022.
You will currently be studying a degree in Business Studies, or an equivalent discipline, that incorporates Human Resources modules and materials.
Application
- Interviews will take place at the beginning of November.
- The placement will start on Monday 18th July 2022.
- We will only accept one application for any of the Partnership Industrial Placement schemes. If you apply for more than one scheme, we will take the first application we receive. You will then receive an email notifying you of the withdrawal of any subsequent applications.
- Please print off the job outline now, as you will be unable to view it once the vacancy has closed.
- We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we recommend you apply early
The application form consists of a CV upload, an online test followed by application questions. Please ensure you refresh the page each time you complete a task to ensure you complete everything that you need to in time. (If internal, check your Workday notifications and see further guidance on the PDW under "Internal application process").
As a business we encourage flexible working. We have a number of different ways to work flexibly, so at your interview feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you. There are no guarantees, however, examples of how our Partners already work flexibly include part-time, job share, home working and compressed hours.
