People Administrator

Working at Stella McCartney is a truly rewarding experience. As a luxury fashion company with a strong ethical standpoint we are leaders and innovators in our industry.

Your Mission

Reporting to the Senior People Partner, the People Administrator will act as a trusted partner to the wider People Team, providing end-to-end support across the entire employee lifecycle for both the UK and Italy. This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to build a career in HR, gaining broad exposure to every aspect of People partnering from employee lifecycle management and HR operations to recruitment, projects, organisational changes, reporting and people processes. Working closely with the People Partners, this role offers the opportunity to become involved in a wide variety of HR initiatives, making it an ideal stepping stone towards a future HR Generalist or HR Business Partner career.

People Administration

• Prepare and manage employee documentation including contracts, references, probation letters, salary changes, promotions, family leave documentation and leaver administration.
• Maintain accurate employee records within HRIS (Workday), ensuring data integrity and compliance at all times.
• Produce regular HR reports and people analytics to support business decision making and workforce planning.
• Maintain organisational charts and support organisational changes across the business.
• Provide accurate administrative support during employee relations processes, including meeting preparation and note taking where required.
• Coordinate onboarding and offboarding activities, ensuring an excellent employee experience.
• Support HR compliance activities and maintain accurate employee files in line with legal requirements.
• Assist with recruitment activities for entry-level and early career positions, including candidate screening, interview scheduling and recruitment administration.
• Support the delivery of People projects and wider HR initiatives across the business.

Payroll & Benefits

• Support the Global Payroll & Benefits Manager throughout the payroll cycle, including preparing commission files and retail management bonus files, issuing P45s and final payslips to leavers.
• Respond to routine payroll and benefits queries, escalating more complex issues where appropriate.
• Provide administrative support for benefits processes and liaise with external providers when required.

Other Responsibilities

• Support the BP team with legally required paperwork for Paris Fashion Week.
• Provide administrative support across wider People projects.
• Support the BP Team with the UK Internship and Work Experience programme.
• Own the global Clothing Allowance administration process from communication through to distribution.

Your Talent

• Ideally at least 1 years’ experience in a similar role, with a keen interest in HR.
• Desirable to have experience / basic understanding of payroll.
• Fluent in English, Italian is desirable.
• Operates with a high level of integrity and confidentiality.
• Demonstrable experience working with Workday or a similar HRIS, and able to use MS Excel effectively.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Proactive, with the ability to prioritise and manage own workload.
• Comfortable operating at pace.

Reward

• Up to 50% discount on Stella McCartney products
• Matched pension contribution up to 6%
• Extensive private medical and critical illness insurance, as well as life assurance
• Annual Health Screening
• 25 days annual leave (not including Bank Holidays) + 1 day of Birthday leave
• Flexible working/core hours
• Enhanced Maternity/paternity packages
• Matched Give as You Earn charity scheme
• Discounted gym and fitness memberships (Classpass)
• Health cash plan
• Physical and Mental Wellbeing Support Services
• Employee referral bonus
• Optional/ Paid Benefits: Season ticket loan, cycle to work and tech schemes, travel and dental insurance and much more.

We welcome people with disabilities and endeavour to make reasonable adjustments, if you do require such adjustments please let us know within 48 hours of your interview.

At Stella McCartney, we like to be bold. For us this means challenging ourselves and the wider industry in which we operate. As part of our commitments to inclusive fashion, we have an ambitious strategy to put diversity, equity and inclusion at the centre of everything we do. Our starting point is to create a workplace where different voices are respected, heard and empowered in equal measure regardless of factors such as culture and backgrounds, and to influence and disrupt fashion and other industries by providing opportunities for global diverse talent to shine.

Stella McCartney is bold. Our mission is to bring conscience to the industry through our shared values and activist non-conformity. We are committed to make every action count; whether we are leading the way in sustainability or continuing to blur the lines through genderless collections that celebrate our free-thinking individuality, we are accountable for the impact that we have on planet earth and its people. Though our mission is progressive and changes the way the fashion industry works, we remain rooted by our family mindset and connected by a shared trust that inspires inclusivity as well as ground-breaking ideas. We celebrate the life of every member of our global tribe, from the next-gen changemakers pushing us forward to the female icons that have been the heart of our inspiration since 2001.

Read more about our brand history here