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
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.
- Coach and support leaders to build high-performing and inclusive teams.
- Support a consistent and performance-led leadership culture across business areas.
- Support talent identification, succession planning, and development activity across allocated business areas.
- Contribute to building sustainable leadership and talent pipelines.
- 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.
- Use people data and insights to identify risks, trends, and opportunities.
- Support evidence-based people interventions and decision making.
- 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.
- 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.
