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Talent/People Operations Administrator - 6 month contract

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Melbourn, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, England
Entry level
Melbourn, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, England
Entry level
This role involves supporting both the People Operations and Talent Operations teams with administration tasks related to the employee lifecycle and recruitment processes. Responsibilities include managing logistics for interviews, coordinating tasks for hiring managers, and providing HR support for various employee queries and processes.
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Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. 

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. 

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. 

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life. 

Job Description

Looking for a new challenge?

You may have found it! This role will sit across both our People Operations and Talent Operations team allowing the individual to gain an insight into both areas of HR. Your role will incorporate processing administration elements of the employee lifecycle from job offer through to our employee's leaving PA, alongside being responsible for all recruitment process administration. 

Within the Talent Operations team, you will be working very closely with our experienced recruiters in taking responsibility for the end-to-end interview process, delivering a superb experience to both hiring managers and candidates. This includes;

  • Taking responsibility for the co-ordination of the recruitment process for large volumes of candidates from first interview through to verbal offer
  • Managing and prioritising candidate and hiring manager activities to ensure a smooth running and timely process
  • Extensive diary management for recruiters, hiring managers and interviewers working with multiple time-zones
  • Raising complex purchase orders for agencies and search firms
  • Managing interview logistics – room bookings, catering requirements and scheduling internal feedback meetings

On the People Operations side, the team are the first line support for HR queries within the business and provide support to the wider people team. Within the role you will have the opportunity to:

  • Get to know the business through a large number of day-to-day queries and inbox management
  • Work closely with the HR team in the UK as well as liaising with key contacts within the business
  • Support with the many administration processes run by our team to support our employees through their time at PA which could include offer letters and the onboarding process, family leave related policies, sickness absence, sabbaticals, promotions, right to work requirements, leavers and changes to terms and conditions of employment to name a few

Overall, we are a friendly and engaged team of 16, whom all operate in a busy and varied environment where no one day is the same!

Qualifications

About you

Demonstrable experience of any kind of busy administrative role would be an advantage. HR / recruitment experience is not required, but hugely advantageous.

  • You’ll have excellent attention to detail and have well developed organisation and time management skills
  • You are able to prioritise your workload and using your initiative when something unplanned comes up.
  • You will be able to use information systems including, accessing, inputting, and compiling data.
  • As an excellent communicator you’ll easily communicate with a diverse client group.

We know the skill-gap and ‘need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application


Additional Information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. 

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. 

Find out more about Life at PA here. 

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits: 

  • Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family 
  • 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days 
  • Generous company pension scheme 
  • Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives 
  • Annual performance-based bonus 
  • PA share ownership 
  • Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn) 

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups. 

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [email protected] 

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PA Consulting Bristol, England Office

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