Human Resources - BMW UK, Financial Services, Farnborough

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Human Resources - BMW UK, Financial Services, Farnborough

SUCCESS IS CREATED BY PEOPLE, NOT BY DEPARTMENTS.

SHARE YOUR PASSION.

At the BMW Group, everything starts with passion. It turns a profession into a vocation. It drives us to keep reinventing mobility and bring innovative ideas onto the roads. Enthusiasm for joint projects turns a team into a strong unit where every opinion is valued. It is only when expertise, highly professional processes and enjoyment of work unite that we can shape the future together.

Our Summit ONE in Farnborough is home to the National Sales Company for the BMW Group in the UK, as well as BMW Group Financial Services which offers retailers, corporate and private customers a range of customised financial services. Alphabet (GB) Ltd. as a leading provider of Business Mobility Services is also located in Farnborough. 

Within our self-contained campus, we offer a modern way of working with an empowering office culture, some aspects of which include:

• Our work persona shift – being yourself is effortless and so increases efficiency.
• Flexible working hours - working flexibly improves mental perspective and increases sustained productivity. This means our leaders maintain balance, not burnout, through focusing on output, not attendance.
• The opportunity to get involved with our continued support to our house charity with a variety of fundraising events throughout the year.
• Throughout our offices there are open creative spaces which hold facilities such as table-tennis tables to encourage innovation and employee engagement 

BMW UK, Financial Services, Farnborough – Human Resources - 13 Month Placement (July 2025)

We have two placement opportunities in our Human Resources team in Farnborough, in HR Management and HR Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (D,E&I).

The HR Function enjoy operating as a small team to ensure the administration that underpins our HR activities and processes are delivered proactively, in the best timescales and to the highest standard, requiring a high degree of accuracy and discretion. This results in a great service delivery to our customers and provides opportunity for making improvements to services as required.

At BMW we are passionate about the world in which we operate and our HR team, along with six D,E&I employee network groups, are on a journey to educate, raise awareness and drive change on important issues such as mental health, gender, disability and more.

What awaits you could include…

• Support HR colleagues with all Operational aspects of HR including: liaising with centralised and local departments and internal departments to resolve day to day issues
• Undertake ad-hoc HR related projects as required to support the HR team. This may include projects within the wider HR teams – Recruitment, Planning & Steering, Talent & Development.
• Produce letters (using templates) to employees as required by HR colleagues within agreed timescales, e.g. improvement notices as part of managing attendance, discipline / capability letters, consultation letters, etc.
• Generating D,E&I Awareness: This includes things like: creating and updating our D,E&I publicity material; organising and setting up drop-in sessions/external speaker events, and creating and editing podcasts & newsletters, to underpin the D,E&I Culture.
• Maintaining our internal and external D,E&I profile: Examples include: External Benchmarking (e.g. Stonewall, Race at Work Charter, enei TIDE, etc.); employee data collection; internal D,E&I Survey; Gender Pay Gap narrative; etc.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Ideally studying HR degree, or a degree in a Business or Psychology related subject, which requires or would benefit from an element of HR experience.
• A passion and strong interest in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
• Strong MS Office skills, including Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel.
• Excellent organisation skills - of yourself and others and the ability to juggle priorities.
• Confident to build a strong and effective network, as well as to speak up with ideas, etc.
• Clear, enthusiastic and effective communicator – to various stakeholders and audiences.
• A self-starter and ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• High accuracy and attention to detail, as the things you produce could be seen by a large and diverse audience.

Why choose us?

• Great Pay – A competitive annual salary of £23,700, 27 days holiday per annum (pro rata to your contract) and an attractive pension scheme.
• Rewarding Work-Life Balance – Contracted working hours are 37.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday, helping you develop a fulfilling work-life balance.
• Exciting Additional Benefits – You will have the opportunity to enjoy other employee benefits, including a subsidised on-site restaurant and access to our Advantages scheme which gives you a range of offers and discounts.

What do you need to do now?

If this sounds like the opportunity for you then apply today using the link below.

The next stages of the recruiting process could include: online testing, video interview and then a face to face, telephone or virtual interview with the hiring manager. This may be in the form of an assessment centre.

About BMW Group UK

If you’re passionate about changing the way the world moves for good then there’s never been a more exciting time to be part of the BMW Group. Our brands BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars and BMW Motorrad have made us the world’s leading premium manufacturer of cars and motorcycles as well as provider of premium financial and mobility services. 

We’re home to a lot of people. People from all walks of life, with a variety of backgrounds that make them who they are. Whose stories and unique life experiences shape the company we are. Because as diverse as our customers, suppliers and investors are worldwide, so too are our teams.

We are always looking for new talent to help us keep pushing the limits of what’s possible in a broad variety of roles, so why not explore our opportunities and take your next career step with us today.

How to apply

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