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🗂️ Administration · River Island

People Partner - Head Office Functions

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The People Partner role is responsible for partnering with Brand Marketing, Customer, E-Commerce, Strategic Partnerships, Supply Chain and IT to provide proactive, commercially focused people support that drives organisational performance and employee experience.
The role acts as a trusted advisor to leaders, supporting the delivery of people priorities through strong stakeholder relationships, data-led interventions, leadership coaching, organisational change support, and talent development activity.

Responsiblities:
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.
Skils:
  •  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
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Applications open on River Island's own careers site.