People Job Description

People Job Description

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People provides day to day support and guidance to assigned business unit managers and employees with regards to performance management, employee relations, and interpretation and implementation of employment policies to ensure consistent application and compliance with all applicable policies.

People Duties & Responsibilities

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Sample responsibilities for this position include:

Manage and allocate team responsibility for employee relations cases including grievance, disciplinary, performance improvement, and absence
Identify and implement improved processes and ways of working to optimise efficiency and quality of service delivered
Design, review and evaluate policies and procedures and ensure they are updated to reflect legislative changes and best practise
Manage a team of two HR specialists to ensure that the contract management process runs smoothly including maintenance of terms and conditions, client secondment process, time and attendance, law society administration, employee files and data access requests
Oversee the communication between HR and payroll to ensure a system is in place to accurately record all items impacting payroll
Manage the exit interview process and ensure feedback is captured and mechanisms are in place to enact necessary change
Develop a thorough understanding of the various departments, groups and business units to understand strategy and enable collaborative relationships with partners and managers thus facilitating the introduction of practices to enhance well-being and engagement
Agree and implement service level agreement
Design and present a comprehensive HR module on the monthly induction programme
Actively engage with HR team colleagues, particularly the Talent Manager, Recruitment Manager and Benefits Manager to provide an overall seamless service to customers

People Qualifications

Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.

Licensing or Certifications for People

List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PHR, SPHR, SHRM, CPA, CP, HR, GPHR, PMP, DBS, MCAD

Education for People

Typically a job would require a certain level of education.

Employers hiring for the people job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Human Resources, Business, Business/Administration, Education, Management, Psychology, MBA, Economics, Human Resources Management, Computer Science

Skills for People

Desired skills for people include:

Excel
Performance management
PowerPoint
Compensation
Employee relations
Outlook
Return policy
Legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees
Applicable federal
Workday

Desired experience for people includes:

Coach and develop direct report and junior members of the team by providing guidance and demonstrating leadership
Plan and budget manage staff events
Relevant degree in a field related to Administration, Organization Development, Learning, HR, Management (or equivalent academic or vocational qualification) preferred
Excellent organizational and time management skills to work on multiple and assorted assignments
Experience with web-based technologies (such as Photoshop®, Captivate®, ) that facilitate the creation of intranet web pages and online training helpful
Manage employee life cycle from interviews to hiring to employee exits

People Examples

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People Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of people. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for people
  • Prepares monthly reports and executive summaries with budget & headcount analysis
  • Collates global personnel costs, payroll & rewards costs and carries out detailed analysis comparing to people plans (Budget or amended forecast)
  • Liaises with regional finance and HR to understand variances to plan
  • Prepares monthly people statistics including head count & turnover reporting to identify global vacancies and trends and develops for HR and Finance needs
  • Maintains monthly commentary on variance explanations and tracks the future costs to be incurred, such as variable bonus and incentive schemes
  • Provide consolidated data and analysis to WW Divisional Controller
  • Tracks all HR Budgets relating to recruitment costs
  • Design innovative, dynamic pages for the print magazine and our print publication offshoots
  • Attend photo selects, proactively conceptualize and organize images in fresh ways on your pages while working directly with editors on creative, intelligent design solutions
  • Commission infographics and illustrations, design icons and graphic elements
Qualifications for people
  • Process and data guru
  • Support HR and Talent Teams in completing regular and special assignments
  • Support and execute on Facilities duties as needed
  • Collaborate with People team to tackle complex problems and solve them creatively
  • Previous experience of cost control relating to people
  • CIMA or ACA qualifications advantageous
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a people. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for people
  • Assist our senior art directors on larger projects, special issues and packages
  • Report to the Design Director on day-to-day management of workload and output
  • Responsible for scheduling interviews, creating interview packets, providing candidates with all necessary interview information (application, directions, ), scheduling candidate travel and conducting testing, when applicable
  • Help to continually improve data management methods and systems
  • Conducts new employee orientation sessions
  • Use scientific rigor to optimize outcomes in recruiting, development, and retention
  • Build self-service data tools that enable monitoring the health and performance of our teams
  • Be the subject matter expert on people data and communicate recommendations to decision makers
  • Evangelize data best practices and act as an advocate of data driven culture
  • Act as a `trusted advisor` to the Business areas MD(s) and senior leadership team, providing valued and effective coaching and guidance in relation to all People challenges and opportunities
Qualifications for people
  • Experience of using J D Edwards & HFM system’s would be advantageous
  • Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines and build processes to quickly consolidate data
  • Previous experience of the luxury sector or retail with global exposure would be ideal
  • Strong organisational skills with the ability to problem solve and work in a logical mannerExcellent numerical and analytics skills
  • Bachelors Degree and/or the equivalent in relevant work experience
  • Hands-on leadership in a rapidly growing organization (preferably in tech)
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of people. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for people
  • Work closely with the BU People Director and People Experience team when shaping future Organisation Design, to make sure we have the right capability, aligned and organised in the best possible way to deliver our Strategy
  • Act as a visible advocate and role model for our purpose and values, creating an environment where our values are consistently demonstrated through their own and their business teams behaviours
  • Own and support the development of talent throughout the business
  • Offer letters
  • Immigration/Mobility Letters
  • Transfer letters
  • Support HR Director in tasks that may include policies, procedures, processes, internal communications
  • You support the team in responding to all HR processes within agreed standards and SLA`s
  • You complete transactions as accurately as possible
  • You are implementing new ideas to ensure the success of the People Services team
Qualifications for people
  • Successful experience scaling an organization during a rapid growth phase
  • Familiarity with a wide range of HR and Recruiting policies, practices, and trends
  • Exceptional business acumen and ability to quickly understand complex business needs and translate these into actionable operating principles for the People team
  • Enjoys a “roll up your sleeves” environment
  • Passion and personality that exudes warmth, help, caring and experience
  • Toronto, Ontario
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a people. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for people
  • Support basic training and info share provision with regard to annual cycles, performance management, compliance training and ad hoc information sessions
  • Work with others to support our growth and to deliver multiple services to with a range of needs especially to managers
  • Assist with benefits including Open Enrollment, employee questions, interface with benefit providers and billing
  • Conduct recruitment efforts, from sourcing to closing candidates (full-cycle recruiting)
  • Instruct employees and managers in policy and procedures to maintain compliance
  • Manage our HRIS and related systems
  • Understand and be comfortable working in a rapidly changing work environment
  • Assist with HR programs such as on-boarding, off-boarding, recruiting, engagement initiatives, policy interpretation/administration
  • Manage sensitive information, handling it with discretion and confidentiality
  • Work with immigration counsel, employees and managers to ensure timely visas for inbound and outbound US
Qualifications for people
  • First-level support for employees on all HR topics
  • Experience using data to measure success of all talent initiatives
  • Master's degree in Industrial / Organizational Psychology, PhD is a plus
  • Credible human resources business person who will be acknowledged as a trusted advisor and HR functional expert to managers
  • Minimum 1 year administrative experience or relatable SWA experience
  • Advanced database skills in enterprise class data environments including Access, Oracle, MySQL
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a people. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for people
  • Provide administrative support within the People Function across a variety of administrative activities to ensure all stakeholders receive a professional and consistent service
  • Ensuring compliance self and others with relevant processes in use to maintain and update People Function systems and data in the support of People Function activities
  • Support aspects of People Function projects and initiatives which may include leading work packages, testing systems , inputting to the project based on own knowledge and expertise
  • Identify issues or areas for improvement within existing processes and highlight to appropriate stakeholders, following through any changes to processes and transactions to agreed standards and timescales
  • Promote compliant behaviours in others when maintaining and updating People Function systems and data in the support of People Function activities
  • Build and maintain relationships with key internal customers and external third parties
  • Ensure best use of resource and skill development by working flexibly across the range of administrative tasks performed in the function
  • Require to have excellent attention to detail/accuracy when dealing with data
  • Dealing securely with personal and highly sensitive data
  • Balancing workload in the context of service delivery standards
Qualifications for people
  • 5+ years of data analysis, analytics in HR, Marketing or Sales in the technology industry
  • SQL or Python (or equivalent) analysis of data sets based upon hypothesis
  • Basic knowledge in HR or Recruiting processes
  • Autonomously lead the design, implementation, and iteration of new people programs assess and improve current people programs
  • Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent experience, with a focus in business, human resources, or related majors
  • 3-5 years of experience, academic or professional as an HR Executive / Co-ordinator

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