Human Resources Student Placement

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Human Resources Student Placement

Responsibilities & Duties

You will provide support in a variety of project and day-to-day HR activities across the whole employee lifecycle. You will play an active role in all our HR teams including talent acquisition, compensation & benefits, talent development and HR governance and the HR generalist team. You will help to support the execution of HR programs & processes as well as improve or create new offerings and initiatives in areas such as employee wellbeing, engagement and reward, recognition and diversity, equality & inclusion.   

Working alongside and supported by the relevant HR colleagues, you will be involved with HR initiatives such as:

• Talent attraction – learning about the role of talent attraction and getting actively involved in the acquisition process. Developing our digital attraction strategy with a continued focus on early careers. 
• Giving feedback and developing improvements for the onboarding experience, and supporting in the delivery of the welcome day.
• Supporting our continuous improvement approach to the governance of our job descriptions.  
• Supporting in the area of talent development and performance management, by using data and analytics as well as actively developing learning pathways and promoting our new learning initiative; the ‘BI University’. 
• Participating in the Wellbeing and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion teams, and supporting and leading with the calendar of activities.
• Compensation and Reward: helping us prepare for the pay transparency legislation changes and working on pay topics like pay equity and competitive market data for roles. Supporting in the benefit platform project and leading on a review and potential redesign of our long service awards. 
• Supporting in the delivery of our HR data reports for example sickness data
• Other people related activities, as assigned including a range of general HR admin

Requirements

• Human Resources undergraduate tracking a 2:1 with a BBC in A levels.
• Can demonstrate success in assignments to date demonstrating good knowledge in the HR field and a commitment to being accountable for their success.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
• Proven experience in establishing and maintaining good working relationships with others
• Enthusiastic and motivated team player.
• Proactive: Identifies, assesses and addresses potential issues for improvement. Actively promotes continuous improvement of HR policies and standards.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to take initiative, with limited supervision in a sometimes pressured environment. Seeks and utilises support from others but balanced with the ability to manage their time, and priorities to deliver. 
• Good organisational and time management skills.
• Responsive: Commits to keeping relevant stakeholders informed of their progress and asks for help when needed.
• Results oriented: Delivers the right thing, on time, with quality and accuracy.
• Experience in using Microsoft Office packages especially Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

WHY BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM? 

• Boehringer is a global company with a UK/Ireland footprint consisting of a head office, manufacturing site and sales force/field operation. This ensures a variety of work, wide colleague networks and business contexts and challenges. It also means that we operate across two legislative frameworks (UK and EU).
• Boehringer is a successful business in a period of growth and development across interesting markets of human and animal health.
• Our business operates within a complex system delivering life changing break through therapies for patients and animals. We have a wide variety of roles and specialisms in our organisation which creates a breadth of diversity in hiring, team and commercial development. Enabling roles such as legal, HR and finance but also manufacturing, sales, medical, marketing, vet technical advisors, project management, government affairs and much more! 
• As a large employer (approximately 800 people in the UK/Ire) we are committed to our people, and our reputation is important to us. We follow HR practices which are market leading and as holders of the UK, European and Global Top Employers award, we strive to improve on our practices year on year meaning we are continually developing and launching new ways to recruit, engage, develop and retain our people.
• Our HR team covers all areas of work from recruitment to the day to day operational activities in HR as well as the total rewards, employee wellbeing, ED&I, development, employee relations, organisational design, people analytics, internal communications and employee engagement. An intern with us will be exposed to all of these areas, getting actual experience and responsibilities. 
• An HR intern will get stuck in with the stuff that goes on behind the scenes and the day to day, as well as the projects and longer term process and development of new approaches.
• The intern will be fully embedded in the HR team from the moment they join, supported and challenged by a friendly, professional and passionate HR function.  

Our People Promise 

Develop your own path

We encourage and guide our people to develop a career path in a workplace that is independent, authentic and bold.  

We support finding the work-life balance that supports goals, growth and wellbeing.  

Make millions of lives better

We’re grounded in a strong purpose – Transforming lives for generations.

Our people have the drive to make a difference in the world and to make the lives of millions better. 

See strengths in our differences

Our people are the beating heart of Boehringer Ingelheim, and know success hinges on the many, not the few. 

We thrive in a culture that knows our differences are our strengths.  

Break new ground

We grow from exploration, always embracing the lessons we learn along the way.

We celebrate the small wins because they lead us to life-changing discoveries.

About Boehringer Ingelheim

Boehringer Ingelheim is working on breakthrough therapies that transform lives, today and for generations to come. As a leading research-driven biopharmaceutical company, the company creates value through innovation in areas of high unmet medical need. Founded in 1885 and family-owned ever since, Boehringer Ingelheim takes a long-term perspective. More than 52,000 employees serve over 130 markets in the three business areas, Human Pharma, Animal Health, and Biopharmaceutical Contract Manufacturing.

Our focus is on long-term performance rather than being limited by short-term profits. Boehringer Ingelheim create value through innovation with a clear goal: to provide more health and transform the lives of both humans and animals.

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