People Generalist

H&M Group

• $97K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field
  • Experience in HR operations or generalist HR role
  • Strong organizational and administrative skills
  • Good understanding of HR processes and employee lifecycle management
  • Ability to analyze data and produce accurate HR reports
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Commitment to collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement

Responsibilities

  • Execute employee life-cycle processes as per group agreed protocols
  • Coordinate and execute people initiatives or projects
  • Support employees and managers with people processes and solutions
  • Address employee inquiries and concerns, including support for union negotiations
  • Enhance workplace satisfaction through employee engagement initiatives
  • Ensure high-quality recruitment and consistent hiring processes
  • Analyze people metrics to provide insights for decision-making

Benefits

  • Hybrid role with flexibility in work location
  • Opportunity to support employee engagement and development
  • Involvement in meaningful HR initiatives
  • Access to HR data analytics resources
  • Work within a culture valuing collaboration and inclusion
Full Job Description
Job Description

WHAT YOU'LL DO

As a People Generalist (Sales Market), your main focus will be to support the full people agenda by executing people processes, assisting employees and managers, and ensuring smooth recruitment, onboarding, development, and engagement activities.

You use people data and insights to guide actions, coordinate initiatives, and help create a fair, compliant, and supportive working environment.

This hybrid role reports into our People Manager and is based out of our Toronto Support Office.

A Day in the Life

Working at H&M means no two days are ever the same, but a typical day will include the following responsibilities*

People Processes, Employee Support & Relations
  • People Processes Implementation: Execute or support the employee life-cycle processes as per indication of group agreed processes
  • People Initiatives Coordination: Coordinate and execute people initiatives or projects affecting the business units supported or function belonging
  • Support Business Units: Support employees or managers when applicable while implementing people processes, initiatives or solutions affecting the business unit or function
  • Employee and Labour Relations: Provide support in addressing employee inquiries, concerns, and basic employee relations matters. Also support on union negotiations if applicable
  • Employee Engagement Initiatives: Support employee engagement initiatives and activities to enhance workplace satisfaction and productivity
  • Talent, Recruitment & Development
  • Ensure high-quality recruitment by securing consistent hiring processes, including clear communication, guidelines, deadlines, and full management of Assessment Centers
  • Support onboarding delivery and follow-up for Store Management teams
  • Training organization, facilitation, and quality follow-up (incl. culture & values)
  • Support Performance management and development follow-up (dialogs, contribution journeys)
  • Succession planning and talent pipeline management for Department Managers & Sales Advisor

Data & Insights
  • Data Analysis and Reporting: Analyze people metrics and data to provide insights for decision-making and report on key performance indicators relevant to business units
  • You prepare and follow up on people data reports, including headcount, turnover, training metrics, and hiring follow-up
  • Explicit people KPI follow-up linked to fair working environment outcomes


Qualifications

We are looking for people with...
  • Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field
  • Experience in HR operations or generalist HR role
  • Strong organizational and administrative skills with attention to detail
  • Good understanding of HR processes and employee lifecycle management
  • Ability to analyze data and produce accurate HR reports
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Commitment to collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement


Additional Information

*This job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job and is not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, and responsibilities assigned for this job at the company's discretion.

Compensation: annual salary is $97,200 **

H&M, in good faith, has assessed this posted range of compensation as the accurate range for this role and location at the time of this posting. H&M may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range depending on candidate qualifications. This range may be modified in the future.

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