Our people are at the heart of our business, and we are looking for those that are just as passionate about that as we are. Join our People team, and come with us on a journey as we transform the way we do HR.

Our team is made up of business partners working with leaders to get the most out of their teams, specialist knowledge in our centres of expertise, and colleague-centric, efficient people services. Our work ranges from making sure that our 150,000+ colleagues are paid on time to attracting brilliant talent to drive our strategy, to unlocking the skills and capability of our colleagues.

This is a fast-moving business, and we make sure our policies and rewards keep up with that too. We know flexibility is important and helps you be more productive so there’s more choice than ever about where and when you work. When it comes to your development, we’ll support your growth in your own unique way. When you join us, you’ll be joining a team that knows just what it means to be happy and engaged, and who makes a real impact across our business.

Why join us

Now is a great time to be joining our business! You’ll be joining our People Division, that has adopted a commercially focused People Partnering model to work hand in hand with business divisions – developing and delivering people plans that are integral to achieving our “Next Level” strategy, giving us laser sharp focus for delivery.

We’re on a mission to deliver through our people by developing high performance and driving culture, organisational change and talent development.

What you’ll do

This is a senior, strategic People Partner role, where you’ll work with our dynamic corporate functions, as a trusted, visible advisor and business partner, supporting the execution and delivery of functional people plans. You will be a conduit into our Centres of Excellence, ensuring the correct expertise is engaged to solve business problems.

You’ll be a Change Agent, around change initiatives following restructures and business change, as well as cultural / behavioural change amongst leaders. You’ll use data and business insight to support your decisions on approach, and measuring the success of changes implemented. This role is essential for driving business performance and ensuring that the organisation is equipped with the right capabilities to succeed!

As People Partner you’ll drive our culture, enable performance, coach managers, and deliver a tangible return on investment by building capability, maximising capacity, and cost efficiency to deliver customer outcomes and shareholder value.

Using your commercial acumen, you’ll use savvy commercial decision making to have a direct impact on the business’s outcomes, ensuring the decisions you’re making add value to the customer.

Who you are

You are a highly experienced and strategic People/HR Business Partner with a proven track record of partnering with senior leaders and stakeholders in large, fast-paced and complex commercial organisations.
Your deep understanding of organisational design and experience of determining, enabling and delivering end-to-end significant business change / transformation, adds value to the organisation.
Understanding of how to manage multiple dependencies across a complex business model, working successfully through conflicting priorities & timelines.
With your expertise in creating and delivering people plans in collaboration with Centres of Excellence, you have strong influencing and relationship-building skills.
As a data-driven decision-maker, you excel in analysing and drawing insights from data to inform strategic decision-making, through your recommendations.
You’ll be curious, proactive and engaging, understanding that the Retail world is intensively fast paced & what this means to ensure effective delivery.
You’ll have a very agile mindset, comfortable with ambiguity and happy to fail fast. Utilising all the different leadership styles to change your approach depending on your audience, enabling you to effectively influence.