HR Administrator

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Location:

Liverpool, GB

CMA CGM | ABOUT US

The CMA CGM Group is a global player in sea, land, air and logistics solutions, true to its corporate

Purpose:

We imagine better ways to serve a world in motion.

Present in 177 countries, it employs 160,000 people, including nearly 6,000 in Marseille, where its head office is located.

As the world’s third-largest shipping company, CMA CGM serves more than 420 ports across five continents with a fleet of over 700 vessels. In 2025, CMA CGM carried more than 24 million twenty-foot equivalent containers (TEUs). Its subsidiary, CEVA Logistics, one of the top five global players, operates 1,000 warehouses and handled 15 million shipments in 2025. The Group’s air division operates a fleet of cargo aircraft under the CMA CGM AIR CARGO and Air Belgium brands.

YOUR ROLE

As HR Administrator within the UK HR Shared Services team, you will be a people-focused HR professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys making a positive impact across the full employee lifecycle, including Talent Acquisition, onboarding, Learning & Development, Benefits, HRIS and Reporting as well as employee engagement and wellbeing,

Working closely with employees, managers and key stakeholders, you will play a vital role in ensuring a smooth, responsive and professional HR service that supports our people and helps deliver an excellent employee experience.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Provide broad HR and payroll administration support across the full employee lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, internal moves, contractual changes, benefits, learning and development, and offboarding.
• Maintain accurate employee records, documentation and HR systems, ensuring information is completed, retained and archived in line with company policy, GDPR and wider compliance requirements.
• Act as a first point of contact for employee and manager queries, providing timely support through the HR mailbox, telephone, Microsoft Teams and face-to-face communication.
• Support payroll preparation, monthly validation, data checking, reporting and analysis to ensure employee and payroll information remains accurate and up to date.
• Administer employee benefits, respond to benefit-related queries and coordinate communications that improve employee awareness and engagement.
• Provide administrative and documentation support for employee relations matters, policy guidance, HR audits and compliance checks.
• Support talent acquisition activity, including candidate management, interview coordination, liaison with hiring managers and agencies, and delivery of a positive candidate experience.
• Prepare onboarding documentation, coordinate induction activity and work with internal stakeholders to ensure a smooth and positive new starter experience.
• Support Early Careers initiatives, including representing CMA CGM at careers events with local partner schools, colleges and universities.
• Coordinate mandatory and developmental learning activities, liaising with training providers, maintaining training records and sharing learning-related data with stakeholders.
• Produce cyclical and ad hoc HR reports for key stakeholders, including senior management, and analyse people data to identify themes, trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Coordinate employee engagement and wellbeing activity, including campaigns, events, awareness days and team-building initiatives, while gathering feedback to improve the employee experience.
• Develop internal communications and promotional materials that increase awareness and participation in HR, wellbeing and engagement initiatives.
• Administer HR, payroll and learning systems, ensuring data accuracy across databases and reporting tools.
• Identify and support opportunities to streamline HR processes, improve administrative efficiency and implement new HR initiatives, projects and systems.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR | KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Demonstrable HR administration experience throughout the employee lifecycle in a fast-paced working environment.
• Excellent analytical skills, with high levels of attention to detail whilst working with large…