Trainee HR Manager - Cork
Employment Type: Full Time
We are Ireland’s largest retailer providing fashion, homewares, and food for our loyal customers. We operate 134 stores across Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Spain, as well as a growing online store. Our guiding principle is to deliver excellent quality products at competitive prices, and we are constantly developing our product ranges.
We currently have a number of vacancies for Trainee HR Managers in our stores in the Cork region. The primary job functions of the HR Manager will be to provide a complete Human Resource service to the store and ensure compliance with all legislation and policy relating to HR issues.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Inspiring performance through coaching all team members to deliver outstanding results and customer service.
2. Ensuring all relevant trading safety and legal policies are in place and adhered to.
3. Demonstrating through role modeling how to deliver excellent customer service, ensuring the “Dunnes Stores Experience” customer service programme is delivered.
4. Advising Store Management on a wide range of HR matters within the Store.
5. Ensuring the development of all the store teams so that the business benefits from their capability through training, coaching, and development planning.
6. Developing staff to enable them to be more effective in their current role and for possible future assignments.
7. Carrying out forecasting and budgeting exercises on current and future skill requirements and manning levels.
8. Assisting, recruiting, training, and developing staff as necessary to achieve high standards in all aspects of the business.
9. Working closely with Store Management regarding manning levels, rostering requirements, and recruitment schedules.
10. Conducting recruitment and selection for all staffing requirements within the store, including the effective use of the online recruitment system, interviewing, reference checking, job offers, and issuing contracts.
11. Conducting in-store inductions for all new employees in line with company policies.
12. Supporting Store Management in implementing all staff performance assessments within the store.
13. Supporting the Store Manager in monitoring any variations in the cost base of the store on a week-by-week basis.
Requirements:
1. Good communication, coaching, and leadership skills.
2. Customer focused.
3. Organizational and time management skills.
4. Strong interpersonal and people management skills.
5. Commercial mindset.
6. Problem-solving and decision-making skills.
7. Third Level HR Degree or equivalent preferable but not essential.
8. Retail or service sector experience essential.
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