Learning & Development Specialist

Learning & Development Specialist- Cork

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Learning & Development Specialist to join a leading Irish organisation on a 12-month fixed-term contract.

This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in shaping the organisation’s learning and development strategy, partnering with leaders across the business to design, deliver and embed innovative learning solutions that enhance performance.

This role offers a competitive salary of €60,000 – €65,000, hybrid working and exposure to senior leadership.

What’s on Offer?

  • Competitive salary of €60,000 – €65,000
  • Hybrid working model
  • 12-month fixed-term contract
  • Company pension scheme
  • Opportunity to join a highly respected and successful Irish organisation
  • High-profile role with exposure to senior leadership
  • Opportunity to lead impactful learning and development initiatives
  • Collaborative, innovative and people-first culture
  • Excellent professional development opportunities

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop and deliver engaging learning and development programmes across the organisation
  • Partner with business leaders to identify training needs and develop capability-building initiatives
  • Support leadership development, succession planning and talent management programmes
  • Facilitate both classroom and virtual training sessions
  • Coordinate onboarding and induction programmes for new employees
  • Manage the Learning Management System (LMS) and ensure training records remain accurate
  • Evaluate learning effectiveness through feedback, reporting and performance metrics
  • Develop blended learning solutions including digital and e-learning content
  • Support organisational change initiatives through targeted learning interventions
  • Work closely with HR and senior leadership to align learning initiatives with business objectives
  • Promote a culture of continuous learning, development and employee engagement
  • Monitor industry trends and introduce innovative learning practices where appropriate

About You:

  • Previous experience in a Learning & Development, Talent Development or Organisational Development role
  • Experience designing and delivering learning programmes within a fast-paced environment
  • Strong facilitation and presentation skills
  • Experience supporting leadership development and management capability programmes
  • Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
  • Strong project management and organisational skills
  • Experience using Learning Management Systems and digital learning platforms
  • Commercially minded with the ability to align learning initiatives to business objectives
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills
  • Third-level qualification in Human Resources, Learning & Development, Business or a related discipline

Why Apply?

This is an outstanding opportunity to join a market-leading organisation where you will have the opportunity to influence learning strategy, develop future leaders and make a lasting impact on organisational performance.

All applications will be handled with the strictest confidence.

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HR & Customer Service Administrator

HR & Customer Service Administrator

Excel Recruitment is currently recruiting for an experienced HR & Customer Service Administrator to join a well-established and highly respected client within the retail and wholesale sector.

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated and organised HR & Customer Service Administrator to join a busy and supportive environment where no two days are the same.

The successful HR & Customer Service Administrator will play a key role in supporting HR operations, payroll administration, colleague engagement, and customer service functions across the branch.

Responsibilities

As a HR & Customer Service Administrator, your responsibilities will include:

* Supporting all day-to-day HR administration including absence management, employee relations, and disciplinary processes

* Assisting with recruitment activities from interview stage through to onboarding and system setup for new starters

* Liaising closely with the wider HR team to ensure company procedures and employment legislation are followed correctly

* Managing weekly payroll administration with support from the wider payroll function

* Monitoring HR-related KPI’s and maintaining accurate employee records

* Supporting colleague wellbeing initiatives, holiday planning, roster management, and overtime control

* Assisting with employee engagement and internal communication initiatives

* Managing employee queries in a professional, fair, and confidential manner

* Supporting customer service operations across reception, checkouts, and cash office functions

* Ensuring customer queries and complaints are handled efficiently and professionally

* Maintaining operational procedures and supporting monthly audit processes across reception and cash office departments

Requirements

* 3-5 years’ experience in a similar HR administration, customer service, or office management role

* Previous experience within a retail, wholesale, or fast-paced operational environment would be highly beneficial

* Strong understanding of HR processes including recruitment, absence management, and employee relations

* Payroll administration experience is highly advantageous

* Ideally CIPD qualified or currently working towards a HR-related qualification

* Strong communication and organisational skills with excellent attention to detail

* Ability to manage multiple priorities in a busy environment

* A positive and team-focused approach with strong interpersonal skills

Benefits

* Opportunity to join a well-established and supportive organisation

* Stable full-time position with long-term career prospects

* Supportive team environment with ongoing training and development opportunities

* Exposure to both HR and customer service operations

* Opportunity to build valuable experience within a people-focused business

* Varied role offering strong day-to-day diversity and responsibility

Closing & How to Apply

If you’re an experienced HR & Customer Service Administrator looking for your next opportunity, we would love to hear from you.

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Grade IV Staff Officer

Grade IV Staff Officer

Excel Recruitment is seeking a Staff Officer or HR Generalist (Grade IV) for our client who specialises in the healthcare sector. This is an initial 2‑month temporary contract with the possibility of extension. The role will support a busy HR function and requires an immediate start. Public sector experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Support end-to-end recruitment, managing a moderate volume of roles
  • Manage onboarding and compliance, including vetting, training, and documentation
  • Handle a high volume of HR queries from line managers and staff
  • Support learning and development, including booking training and managing the training diary
  • Assist with HR reporting, including data gathering, collation, and publishing
  • Manage HR documentation, including filing, printing, and scanning
  • Act as a key point of contact for line managers, providing HR administrative support

Requirements

  • Previous experience in a HR Generalist or HR Administrator role
  • Public sector experience highly desirable
  • Experience using Webwise is highly desirable
  • Strong organisational and administrative skills
  • Comfortable dealing with high volumes of queries
  • Confident communicator with a professional approach
  • Strong attention to detail and compliance awareness
  • Must be available to start immediately

This role offers valuable experience within a healthcare HR environment, supporting key recruitment, compliance, and HR operations. If you would like to apply for this Staff Officer role, please apply using the link below. For any questions, please contact Laurence on 01-8717605.

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Head of Human Resources

This position offers genuine flexibility, strong support from senior leadership, and the opportunity to shape HR strategy within a dynamic, customer-focused hospitality environment.

If you’re seeking a stable senior role where you can make a real impact while maintaining a strong work-life balance, this could be the ideal next step.

The Opportunity

As Head of Human Resources, you will lead the HR function across several hospitality sites, partnering closely with senior management to drive culture, engagement, and organisational growth.

You will oversee an established HR team, ensuring best-in-class HR practices, strong compliance, and consistent people support across all locations within the group.

Why Apply

  • Salary up to €90,000 depending on experience
    * Flexible working arrangements supporting work-life balance
    * Company car, laptop, and mobile phone
    * Supportive and collaborative senior leadership team
    * Strong autonomy to shape and deliver HR strategy
    * Long-term stability within a growing hospitality group
    * Mileage and travel support for regional responsibilities
    * Pension and full benefits package

Your Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop the HR function across multiple hospitality sites in Galway and surrounding regions
    * Partner with senior leaders to drive culture, engagement, and performance
    * Provide expert guidance on employee relations, performance management, and organisational development
    * Oversee recruitment, retention strategies, and workforce planning within a fast-paced hospitality environment
    * Ensure full compliance with Irish employment legislation and HR best practice
    * Implement engagement, training, and wellbeing initiatives
    * Support and mentor an established HR team

Ideal Candidate

  • Experience at Senior HR Manager, Head of HR, or HR Director level
    * Strong understanding of Irish employment law
    * Experience managing HR across multi-site environments (hospitality experience highly desirable)
    * Confident working with senior stakeholders in a fast-paced, service-driven business
    * CIPD qualification or relevant HR/Business degree
    * Full driving licence for regional travel

How to Apply

If you are interested in this Head of Human Resources opportunity in Galway, or any other roles, please apply directly.

All applications will be handled with the strictest confidence.

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Senior HR Business Partner

What’s On Offer?

  • Salary: €70,000 plus Performance Bonus
  • Private Healthcare
  • 25 Days Annual Leave
  • Excellent Work-Life balance
  • Company Pension Scheme
  • Career development and progression opportunities
  • Collaborative and values-driven culture

Key Responsibilities:

  • Partner with senior leaders to develop and execute the people strategy
  • Act as a trusted advisor, influencing business decisions on all people-related matters
  • Lead and support organisational change and transformation initiatives
  • Provide expert guidance on complex employee relations cases
  • Support and drive talent acquisition strategies, including key hires
  • Collaborate with L&D to design and deliver impactful development programmes
  • Drive employee engagement initiatives and support survey action planning
  • Support compensation and benefits processes, including bonus coordination
  • Ensure compliance with employment legislation and HR best practice
  • Liaise with external legal advisors where required
  • Build strong relationships across the business, acting as a true business partner

Key Requirements:

  • Proven experience in a Senior HR or HR Business Partner role
  • Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
  • Demonstrated experience managing organisational change
  • Solid employee relations expertise with sound judgement
  • Commercially minded with the ability to align HR strategy to business goals
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
  • Proactive, solutions-focused approach
  • Degree in HR or a related discipline
  • CIPD membership (or working towards) desirable
  • Minimum 7+ years’ experience in a generalist HR role

If you are interested in this Senior HR Business Partner job opportunity in Meath, then please apply to Nikki Murran via the link below.

All applications will be handled with the strictest confidence.

INDNIK

HR Manager

HR Manager

Excel Recruitment is recruiting a HR Manager for an ongoing temporary contract in Dublin. This candidate will have previous experience working in a busy logistics or retail environment. It is an ideal opportunity for an experienced HR professional to join a well-established Company, working in an exciting, fast paced office.

Main Responsibilities

  • Monitor the regulations affecting HR functions and ensure policies, procedures, and reporting are in compliance.
  • Providing people advice and support to stakeholders including all levels of management and employees
  • Develop and utilise personal and professional networks for the purposes of recruitment and training
  • Supporting in completion of the recruitment cycle from initial job application, interviewing, screening through to contract and induction stage
  • Managing and overseeing the starter, leaver process and internal transfer or move of temporary, seasonal and permanent employees
  • Develop initiatives and strategies to maximise staff retention
  • Oversee training and development strategies to promote personal and professional growth for employees and management
  • Other administrative duties as required by the business

Main Requirements

  • CIPD qualified
  • A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role
  • Very articulate and strong communicator
  • Strong organisational, leadership and time management skills
  • Excellent IT skills
  • Must have a car as travel is required for this position

If you would like to apply for this HR Manager position, please upload an up to date CV. If you have any questions about this role, you can contact Laurence directly on 01-8717605. For similar live positions, please see the Excel Recruitment Website.

HR Specialist

At Excel Recruitment, we are currently recruiting a HR Specialist on behalf of our client based in Citywest, Dublin.

Reporting to the HR Manager, the HR Specialist will provide end-to-end HR support and drive continuous improvement in the development of HR services, policies, and practices.

Duties

  • Have a strong understanding of policy and processes and be able to help direct HR policy/Job aids to advise managers, employees, and HR through their query
  • Identify and contribute to process improvement initiatives
  • Develop strong relationships with HR Business Partners and the wider network of teams
  • Be the senior point of contact for all Workday queries and tasks – benefits and compensation queries, onboarding and offboarding, and employee data changes, etc
  • Manage escalations to resolution
  • Ensure employee requests such as Salary certificates, Maternity leave forms, etc, are processed accurately and efficiently
  • Participate in data review and auditing of new processes, procedures, and system changes as needed
  • Run and circulate monthly reports to the business from Workday where required
  • Assist with ad-hoc tasks, reporting requirements, HR initiatives, and projects as required

Requirements

  • 2 – 3 years’ experience working in a HR Generalist/Specialist role
  • Customer service mindset, with excellent communication skills
  • Strong organisation skills with ability to prioritize providing accuracy and attention to detail
  • Strong digital acumen-good knowledge of systems and processes.

This is a full-time position offering €35k-€40k DOE. This is a temporary position (3-6 months) with a few to permanency for the right candidate.

This position offers a Hybrid working model, 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.

Should you be interested in this HR Specialist role, please submit your CV via the link provided or call Kayleigh on 045-397140. For more jobs please visit the Excel Recruitment website.

HR Specialist

At Excel Recruitment, we are currently recruiting a HR Specialist on behalf of our client based in Citywest, Dublin.

Reporting to the HR Manager, the HR Specialist will provide end-to-end HR support and drive continuous improvement in the development of HR services, policies, and practices.

Duties

  • Have a strong understanding of policy and processes and be able to help direct HR policy/Job aids to advise managers, employees, and HR through their query
  • Identify and contribute to process improvement initiatives
  • Develop strong relationships with HR Business Partners and the wider network of teams
  • Be the senior point of contact for all Workday queries and tasks – benefits and compensation queries, onboarding and offboarding, and employee data changes etc
  • Manage escalations to resolution
  • Ensure employee requests such as Salary certificates, Maternity leave forms etc, are processed accurately and efficiently
  • Participate in data review and auditing new processes, procedures and system changes as needed
  • Run and circulate monthly reports to the business from Workday where required
  • Assist with adhoc tasks, reporting requirements, HR initiatives and projects as required

Requirements

  • 2 – 3 years’ experience working in a HR Generalist/Specialist role
  • Customer service mindset, with excellent communication skills
  • Strong organisation skills with ability to prioritize providing accuracy and attention to detail
  • Strong digital acumen-good knowledge of systems and processes.

This is a full-time position offering €35k-€40k DOE. This is a temporary position (3-6 months) with a few to permanency for the right candidate.

This position offers a Hybrid working model, 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.

Should you be interested in this HR Specialist role, please submit your CV via the link provided or call Kayleigh on 045-397140. For more jobs please visit the Excel Recruitment website.

HR Generalist

HR Generalist

Here at Excel Recruitment, we are seeking a Human Resource Generalist to join our client’s business. Our client is a successful retailer who are looking for a passionate candidate to join their team in South Dublin.

If you are an experienced HR Generalist and are looking to progress your career in Human Resources, this is the job for you.

There is a competitive salary package DOE on offer for the successful candidate.

Your responsibilities:

  • Be the first point of contact for all HR specific queries from management and employees in a timely manner
  • Creating and maintaining employee personnel files and updating records such as training files, payroll, and any other relevant information records to hold
  • Managing all administrative duties for the HR department including investigations, disciplinary and grievance meetings and ensure all paperwork is retained
  • Prepare weekly wage files and process all leavers including P45 forms and final pay
  • The activities of this role are varied and could include staff training, office administration, recruitment administration, on-boarding staff, ER/IR support, HR staff queries and payroll queries
  • Work closely with the Store Managers, attend meetings with all management and report directly to the HR Manager

Who you are:

  • A hands-on approach with a strong work ethic and the ability to work on your own initiative
  • A HR or third level qualification is desirable
  • An ability to learn company-specific software as required
  • Have a highly organised, flexible, and proactive approach to task workload
  • Have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in a similar HR role ideally within an FMCG environment
  • Have a proficient background in MS Office tools (MS Outlook, Excel & Word)
  • Payroll, rostering, interviewing and holiday planning experience is desirable

If you are interested in this job, or any other jobs on the Excel Recruitment, please contact Dylan on 01 871 7664 to discuss, or apply directly via the link below. All applications will be handled in the strictest of confidence.

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Experienced Recruiter

Experienced Recruiter – Dublin City

Are you an experienced recruitment consultant? Are you looking to work in a thriving department in an exciting, expanding company?

Excel Recruitment is seeking an Experienced Recruiter to join our award-winning Grocery team.

The ideal candidate for this role is an individual with prior recruitment experience and any background in the grocery retail industry is a plus!

We are offering an exceptional package including an array of perks!

Responsibilities:

  • Build and foster long-term relationships
  • Understand client requirements
  • Employ recruiting methods to attract candidates
  • Evaluate resumes and applications
  • Source candidates using databases, social media etc.
  • Assume responsibility of pre-interview screening
  • Match the most suitable candidates to different positions
  • Create relationships with job seekers and provide advice
  • Facilitate and finalise agreements between candidate and employer

Requirements:

  • Grocery retail experience is a plus
  • Proven experience as recruitment consultant, HR consultant or similar position
  • Understanding of sourcing and recruiting techniques
  • Sales/Customer service skills
  • Outstanding communication ability
  • Confident and pleasant personality
  • Well-organised
  • Ability to work with targets
  • Sound judgement

If you are interested in this job, or any other grocery retail jobs on the Excel Recruitment website, please apply directly via the link below. All applications will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Call Nikki 01 871 7600

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