HR Shared Services Associate Apprentice

BUNZL UK LIMITED

Manchester (M27 8UJ)

Closes in 19 days (Tuesday 30 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 11 September 2025

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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. The job holder will also be responsible for some of the facilities management of the company Head Office plus administration duties for other departments.

Wage

£15,704 to £25,396.80, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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Training course
People professional (level 5)
Hours
Monday to Friday

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 13 October 2025

Duration

1 year 10 months

Positions available

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

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff

  • 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

This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

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 UK

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.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

POTENTIAL REALISED - HR & TRAINING LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000341422.

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Closes in 19 days (Tuesday 30 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

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