People Partner

People Partner

Department: Business Partnering

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Head Office, Chelsea House

Description

The People Partner role is responsible for partnering with stakeholders across their business area 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.

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.

Skills

• 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.

What we can offer you

• Generous 50% staff discount and a bargain staff shop on site.
• Discounts, benefits, financial advice, wellbeing solutions and more through the Retail Trust.
• Free onsite gym, subsidised restaurant & café, and various social events throughout the year.
• Support for families with maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility treatment, and dedicated support for all family setups through the Retail Trust.
• 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.
• Upskilling through on the job training and qualifications, with a succession plan if you want to progress.
• A generous bonus scheme and private pension plan.
• Choice to opt in for healthcare through AXA.
• 25 days paid holiday, exclusive of Bank Holidays, with option to purchase additional holiday twice a year.

Keeping You Safe

At River Island we are committed to the safeguarding of all of our employees regardless of age or job role. We will fulfil our obligation under the Prevent duty which seeks to stop extremism and extremist views from materialising in our business. We promote and encourage the belief in British Values - including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs.

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.