HR Shared Services Associate Apprentice
BUNZL UK LIMITED
Manchester (M27 8UJ)
Closes in 17 days (Monday 29 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 12 September 2025
Contents
Summary
To provide a shared HR administration service to the business entity to ensure that the employee lifecycle is managed efficiently and in accordance with relevant legislation.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- People professional (level 5)
- Hours
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Shifts to be confirmed.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 3 November 2025
- Duration
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1 year 10 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Recruitment & Onboarding:
- Ensure that all vacancies are administered appropriately including authorisation to recruit, advertising and relevant tracking and monitoring.
- Creation of formal offers of employment for prospective employees and onboarding administration via Resourcelink, ensuring appropriate monitoring of progress during the onboarding period.
New Employees:
- Carrying out all relevant administration to ensure new employees are able to access and use tools and systems to support their induction including YeLP, EAP, MyBunzl Benefits.
- Notification to third party and internal stakeholders of new employee details to ensure relevant due diligence including new starter occupational health questionnaires, IT access, references and driving licence monitoring.
- Manage the administration of probationary periods in partnership with line managers to ensure relevant reviews and decisions on permanent employment are made and communicated.
Employee Administration:
- Administration of all changes to employee terms and conditions or circumstances to include promotions, demotions and internal transfers.
- Administration associated with employee relations matters including disciplinary, grievance and appeal meetings and recording on Resourcelink.
- Generation and distribution of business objects reports to line managers and members of the HR team to inform and support business decisions.
- Administration support related to monthly payroll routines including cross reference of absence documentation, overtime requests and authorisation, and P45 distribution.
- Administration support in relation to family friendly policies including maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave.
- Ensuring that all unplanned absence is supported by relevant documentation including Fit Notes and Return to Work Interview forms.
- Ensure that employees celebrating long service milestones or values-based recognition receive the relevant awards in liaison with the line manager.
- Provide first line assistance to line managers with queries related to Resourcelink including account unlocking and functionality.
Leavers:
- Administration of leavers’ details to ensure dates and reasons for leaving are recorded on Resourcelink.
- Liaison with third parties to enable ongoing administration of benefits and entitlements including Sharesave, pensions, private healthcare and cycle to work.
- Liaison with internal stakeholders to enable them to carry out the leaver processes associated with company cars and IT access.
- Issuing standard references on request for ex-employees.
Where you'll work
Bunzl UK Ireland
Agecroft Commerce Park Lamplight Way
Manchester
M27 8UJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
POTENTIAL REALISED - HR & TRAINING LIMITED
Training course
People professional (level 5)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Communicate information through appropriate channels to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required.
- Build and manage multiple and diverse stakeholder's relationships.
- Advise on application of policy, regulation, and law for HR issues.
- Use data and metrics to mitigate areas of risk and highlight opportunities.
- Negotiate with and influence stakeholders to support achievement of business and organisation objectives.
- Present insight and conclusions on workforce issues or people process failures.
- Enable stakeholders to deliver people solutions. e.g., through negotiation, providing guidance.
- Lead and improve people capability within the business.
- Manage and deliver people related business and change projects.
- Handle and process people data according to legislative requirements.
- Embed organisational people policy to promote a diverse and inclusive culture with stakeholders.
- Analyse financial implications of people solutions ensuring value for money.
- Support the delivery of people strategies using technology and innovation in accordance with regulations and policies.
- Make decisions on people policy and issues raised, escalating concerns outside own area of responsibility.
- Use prioritisation tools e.g., priority matrix to manage workload, and deliver against business objectives.
- Challenge matters which conflict with ethical values or legislation.
- Contribute to the development of people policies and procedures or people initiatives.
- Interpret people and management data, from both internal and external sources to identify trends.
- Educate and support stakeholders to deal with wellbeing issues.
- Benchmark to improve people policies and procedures, or people initiatives.
- Communicate information through appropriate channels to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required.
- Build and manage multiple and diverse stakeholder's relationships.
- Advise on application of policy, regulation, and law for HR issues.
- Use data and metrics to mitigate areas of risk and highlight opportunities.
- Negotiate with and influence stakeholders to support achievement of business and organisation objectives.
- Present insight and conclusions on workforce issues or people process failures.
- Enable stakeholders to deliver people solutions. e.g., through negotiation, providing guidance.
- Lead and improve people capability within the business.
- Manage and deliver people related business and change projects.
- Handle and process people data according to legislative requirements.
- Embed organisational people policy to promote a diverse and inclusive culture with stakeholders.
- Analyse financial implications of people solutions ensuring value for money.
- Support the delivery of people strategies using technology and innovation in accordance with regulations and policies.
- Make decisions on people policy and issues raised, escalating concerns outside own area of responsibility.
- Use prioritisation tools e.g., priority matrix to manage workload, and deliver against business objectives.
- Challenge matters which conflict with ethical values or legislation.
- Contribute to the development of people policies and procedures or people initiatives.
- Interpret people and management data, from both internal and external sources to identify trends.
- Educate and support stakeholders to deal with wellbeing issues.
- Benchmark to improve people policies and procedures, or people initiatives.
Training schedule
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
Right to work in UK.
About this employer
Bunzl is a FTSE40 organization, employing 4,000 people in the UK. Bunzl sources, consolidates and supplies consumable products to businesses in the hospitality, catering, retail, facilities and construction industries.
After this apprenticeship
In terms of future prospects, we would expect (subject to successful completion of the apprenticeship and ongoing suitability for employment), that this role will become permanent and that the post holder will have a great opportunity to develop their broader skill set and experience, as a key member of the People Operations team.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
POTENTIAL REALISED - HR & TRAINING LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000338029.
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Closes in 17 days (Monday 29 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
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