People Partner

Responsibilities

Strategic Partnering & Stakeholder Support

• Build trusted relationships with stakeholders and provide commercially focused people partnering support aligned to business priorities.
• Support leaders to drive performance, engagement, capability, and team effectiveness.

Leadership Coaching & Capability

• Coach and support leaders to build high-performing and inclusive teams.
• Support a consistent and performance-led leadership culture across business areas.

Talent & Succession Planning

• Support talent identification, succession planning, and development activity across allocated business areas.
• Contribute to building sustainable leadership and talent pipelines.

Organisational Change & People Initiatives

• Support delivery of organisational change initiatives and people priorities within business areas.
• Ensure change activity is delivered consistently and with appropriate employee support and engagement.

People Insights & Data

• Use people data and insights to identify risks, trends, and opportunities.
• Support evidence-based people interventions and decision making.

Employee Relations & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work collaboratively with Employee Relations and Centres of Expertise to deliver joined-up people solutions.
• Contribute to People Team initiatives while promoting inclusion, wellbeing, and positive employee experience.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial acumen and focus on business performance.
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building capability
• Strong coaching and influencing skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good diagnostic and problem-solving capability.
• Ability to balance operational delivery with strategic thinking.
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and fast-paced environments.
• Strong analytical capability with attention to detail.
• Collaborative and solutions-focused approach.
• Resilient and calm under pressure.
• Passion for employee experience, inclusion, and leadership development.
• Strong integrity and sound judgement.
• Experience supporting employee relations, organisational change, performance management, talent, and engagement activity.
• Experience coaching and influencing leaders.
• Ability to analyse people data and translate insights into practical actions.
• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of operational business environments.
• Previous experience within a People Partner, HR Advisor, HR Business Partner, or equivalent people-focused role.
• CIPD Level 5 qualified or equivalent experience

Benefits

• Generous 50% staff discount.
• Discounts, benefits, financial advice, wellbeing solutions through the Retail Trust.
• Free onsite gym, subsidised restaurant & café.
• Various social events throughout the year.
• Support for different family setups including enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility treatment.
• Flexible working, on top of payday and summer early finish Fridays.
• Give as you earn scheme, a ‘Giver Island’ day each year and matched funding.
• Support with upskilling through on the job training and qualifications and succession plan.
• A generous bonus scheme & private pension plan.
• Option to opt in for healthcare through provider AXA.
• 25 days paid holiday, exclusive of Bank Holidays with option to purchase additional holiday twice a year.

Equality & Diversity

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

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