HR and Development Coordinator (12-month maternity cover)

Vines of Guildford is looking for an HR and Development Coordinator (12-month maternity cover).

Your role

At Vines, our people are our greatest asset, and we have a passion for creating a safe space for personal growth and enabling a work culture created on family values. For an insight of what it’s really like to work at Vines and how we represent our values, take a look at some of our “life at Vines” videos here.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for building people and organisation capability by coordinating the learning and development function in the Business.

• Management and continuous improvement of a new starter onboarding programme for all new starters, transfers, and promotions.
• Coaching managers to build the organisation and people capability.
• Proactive management of all BMW Academy training in order to achieve Company targets and required certification levels.
• With support from the HR Manager manage our people’s succession and growth plans.
• Management of the Vines Apprenticeship programme including mentoring of the apprentices.
• Management of our eLearning system
• Coordination of HR and Training compliance.
• First point of contact for any internal training-related issues/queries
• Work alongside the HR Business Partner to coordinate Vines employee internal and social media content to maximise engagement.
• Contribute towards developing a culture of team engagement which is a crucial part in achieving the overall business strategy
• As part of the HR team, strive to create a working environment which fully embraces our brand values.
• Be an advocate for wellbeing, diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Salary: £28,000 - £35,000 per annum dependent on experience.

Location: Predominately office-based, Multisite (Crawley, Redhill and Guildford) with the option of hybrid working, 1-2 days per week.

Hours: 40 hours per week over a Monday to Friday-period.

Your profile

• At least 2 years of HR or L &D experience
• Ability to build relationships and deliver a high standard of HR to the business
• A self-starter with proven record of gaining buy in and delivering results which add value and fit with the Vines brand values
• Ability to self-direct, problem solve and focus on multiple details simultaneously
• Excellent communicator, both verbal and in writing.
• Multi-site experience would be an advantage
• Excellent organisation and administration skills

Rewards

Vines is not your run-of-the-mill automotive dealer. Our employees are dedicated to what they do, so we believe it is important that we give something back. As well as the usual culprits such as a pension, product discounts and life assurance, we also offer:

• 24 days of annual leave a year (plus public / bank holidays)
• We want everyone to enjoy their birthday so we give it to you off each year!
• Healthcare Plan - A funded health cash plan which allows our employees and their family members to claim back the costs of their day-day health treatments.
• In addition, we offer non-cash benefits, such as Virtual GP, Employee Assistance Programme and a high street discount platform including gym discounts.
• Increased annual leave entitlement with a length of service up to 5 days.
• Enhanced family-friendly packages for maternity and paternity leave
• Fun staff events and nights out, are a very important part of team building!
• Business casual dress code
• Bike 2 Work scheme
• Employee first culture -our mantra is Happy Staff = Happy Customers, this is driven through our employee focus groups
• A great place to work - in our most recent engagement surveys our people scored us in the top 5% of businesses of similar industries.