People Assistant

The role

Here at boohoo we don’t do things by halves. We’re passionate, ambitious, and work hard to achieve our goals and to achieve them fast! We started our journey just 15 years ago as a single online brand based in Manchester, and we now dress millions of customers globally through our ever growing brand portfolio.

Our boohoo family has grown rapidly, and we now have a second home in the heart of Soho, London, housing Karen Millen, Coast, Oasis, Warehouse, Nasty Girl, Debenhams, Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton. We have just over 400 wonderful team members in our London Head Office and are looking for a People Assistant to join our London team on this journey!

As People Assistant you will work closely with the team and brands to offer high level administration support and managing our email inbox. You must have excellent communication and attention to detail whilst working at pace.

This role will be based at our Soho office, with 4 days working from the office and 1 day working from home.

What you’ll be doing

You will play a key role in ensuring all our London team have a first- class employee experience from the moment they say yes to becoming part of the family. No two days at boohoo are ever the same therefore we’ve listed some of your key responsibilities below:

• Managing our London HR inbox . You will be the first point of contact for all our London family’s queries. Think holiday queries, questions about pay, benefits data and contractual information
• Managing an email inbox

• Actioning all people changes on our HR system (CORE HR) – including setting up new starters, actioning promotion and pay changes and ensuring leavers details are inputted correctly
• Using Canva templates to create change letters for any updates to employees terms and conditions
• Managing monthly payroll spreadsheets and working closely with our Reward and Payroll teams to make sure employees pay and benefits are processed correctly each month
• Managing and tracking employee probations
• Conducting in person Right to Work checks for all new employees
• Updating team and company structure charts
• Supporting our HR Advisor in hosting our weekly induction programme
• Working with the reward team to widen our offering of local discounts for our office
• Helping out our lovely HR team with any ad hoc projects which may come our way (there’s always lots going on here!)

Working with us

To succeed here, you have to love working at pace. It’s relentless, but we love it. Change is a certainty – you need to adapt and be agile. We want you to challenge the status quo, innovate and be open to trying new things. We’re always pushing boundaries. We want you to think big. Think creatively. Be bold. Be brave. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes – that’s how we learn! We empower our people, giving them freedom and autonomy to learn and grow in their roles. We’re one team, one boohoo family. Bring your own style, experiences, and ideas – we want them all.

More about you

• A passion and drive to work in the wonderful HR world
• Great attention to detail and organisational skills
• Excellent communication skills – you’ll be able to build relationships both face to face and over email
• A can do-attitude
• Ability to work at pace (thing’s move fast here and it’s important you’re able to prioritise and keep ahead of the game)
• Team Player (ability to support wider teams when needed)

Why join us

We’ve set our sights on dominating the global e-commerce fashion market, and because we’re 13 brands (and counting), there are plenty of opportunities to grow your career. Our mission is to create a workplace where everyone is respected, their individual differences are valued, and they can be themselves at work without exception.

• Core hours enable you to flex your working times around your needs on an ad hoc basis
• Benefits that support your health and wellbeing
• There’s up to 40% discount off our all of our brands
• Our social calendar? Next level
• With HQs in Manchester and London and offices across the globe (some are dog friendly!), we offer a buzzing atmosphere and the boohoo family culture wherever you work

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