HR Graduate - L&D Focused

About the Programme

Our HR Graduate Programme is designed to develop future HR professionals through hands-on experience, structured learning, and rotational assignments across core areas of the HR function.

Over two years, you will gain exposure to Learning & Development (initial primary placement), HR Operations, Rewards, and Talent Acquisition—building broad HR capability and deep functional understanding within a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

This programme is ideal for graduates who are solution-focused, commercially aware, and eager to grow within a progressive organisation.

Role Overview

As an HR Graduate, you will play an active role in delivering HR services and solutions that support our people strategy. You will participate in meaningful work from day one—contributing to learning programmes, operations processes, reward initiatives, talent acquisition activities, and broader HR projects.

Your rotation will include:

• Learning & Development (Primary Focus – Rotation 1)
• HR Operations (Rotation 2)
• Rewards & Benefits (Rotation 3)
• Talent Acquisition Exposure (embedded across rotations)

Rotational Responsibilities

• Learning & Development (L&D)

Your first rotation will focus on supporting organisational learning initiatives. Activities may include:

· Coordinating training programmes and development workshops

· Supporting onboarding and induction processes

· Assisting with learning needs analysis and skills mapping

· Managing LMS (Learning Management System) queries, enrolments, and reporting

· Partnering with internal stakeholders to deliver development events

· Evaluating programme effectiveness and compiling insights

• HR Operations

You will gain hands-on experience in core HR processes that keep the employee lifecycle running smoothly:

· Supporting HR administration across onboarding, contracts, and employee changes

· Ensuring HRIS data accuracy and maintaining employee records

· Supporting policy updates, audits, and compliance activities

· Responding to employee queries in a timely and professional manner

· Assisting with cyclical HR activities such as annual reviews and engagement surveys

• Rewards & Benefits

This rotation will build understanding of how competitive reward strategies support talent attraction and retention:

· Assisting in benefits administration and employee communications

· Supporting salary review and benchmarking exercises

· Helping analyse rewards data and preparing reporting for HR leadership

· Contributing to benefits renewals and vendor coordination

· Supporting recognition programme activities

• Talent Acquisition (Exposure)

Throughout the programme, you will spend time with the TA team and support key recruitment activities:

· Assisting with job postings, candidate screening, and interview coordination

· Supporting employer branding initiatives

· Engaging with candidates and ensuring a positive experience

· Helping prepare selection materials and assessment documentation

· Participating in graduate and early-career recruitment campaigns

What You’ll Need to Succeed

· Minimum 2.1 bachelor’s degree in HR or a related discipline

· Strong communication skills—written and verbal

· Interest in building a career within HR

· Collaborative mindset and ability to build positive relationships

· Strong problem-solving and commercial thinking

· Adaptability in a fast-paced environment

· Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

· Curiosity, drive, and a willingness to learn

Core Functions

• Learning & Development

Responsible for building organisational capability through training, upskilling, leadership development, onboarding, and continuous learning frameworks.

• HR Operations

Delivers the essential HR processes that support employees throughout the lifecycle—contracts, HR systems, compliance, data management, and HR service delivery.

Rewards & Benefits (Compensation & Benefits)

Designs and manages pay structures, benefits, recognition programmes, and reward strategies that support retention and motivation.

• HR Information Systems (HRIS)

Maintains HR technology platforms, ensures data integrity, supports process automation, and enables reporting & analytics.

• Talent Acquisition

Attracts, assesses, and hires great talent while managing employer brand and delivering a strong candidate experience.

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Uniphar – Who we are

With a workforce of more than 3000 employees spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA, and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and MedTech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines around the world. Uniphar provides outsourced and specialized services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our highly expert teams.  Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Supply Chain Retail & On Demand, Uniphar Med Tech and Uniphar Pharma.

Supply Chain & Retail

Supply Chain Services provides both pre-wholesale and wholesale distribution of pharmaceutical, healthcare and animal health products to pharmacies and hospital nationwide. The business supports a diverse customer base through the provision of strong service levels coupled with innovative commercial initiatives. In addition, the business provides services and supports that help independent community pharmacy to compete more effectively in an increasingly difficult environment and runs a network of Uniphar-owned pharmacies under the Life, Allcare, McCauleys and Hickeys symbol brands.

Pharma – On Demand

The On-Demand business is a specialist medical supply business that sources and distributes pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and consumable supplies to healthcare professionals in over 160 countries worldwide. We have offices in Ireland, UK, Europe, USA and New Zealand. The company’s main divisions encompass everything from International Sales through Sales to NGO’s and Charities, Clinical Trials Supply, Imported (Unlicensed Medicines), Sexual Health Supplies, and the storage and distribution of medical products and devices for third parties.

Click here to find out more: About Us - Who we are | Uniphar

Culture at Uniphar

Uniphar is a combination of many businesses each with its own identity, culture, values, and ways of working.  Our overarching culture narrative is inclusive of each of these stores. Uniphar lives and breathes four key pillars which unpin and support our culture.

We have a people first approach - we do the right thing. We support entrepreneurial spirit where adaptability, commitment & resilience is embodied in our way of working. We have a Common Purpose that connects our diversified businesses and people. Finally, Trust is at the heart of how we operate.

Everything Uniphar does is enabled by our people and as we continue to grow domestically and internationally, we become more diverse.  This diversity fuels our business and culture. 

Sustainability

Sustainability is at the core of what we do and is deeply embedded in our business strategy. We want to contribute positively to the people and the world around us. Running our business in a sustainable way ensures that Uniphar will continue to prosper in the long-term. We are focused on ensuring that each of the five pillars of our sustainability strategy are a fundamental part of our decision-making process.