People Partner

People Partner

Department: HR Business Partnering

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Head Office, London

Description As a People Business Partner, you'll play a pivotal role in enabling the business to thrive by delivering people-focused solutions that align with ELEMIS' mission, values, and commercial strategy. Acting as a trusted advisor to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and business leaders, you'll influence decision-making with strategic insight, supporting cultural development, engagement, and performance transformation. You'll build strong partnerships to shape initiatives and deliver joined-up and impactful solutions across the full colleague lifecycle.
Your Day-to-Day Strategic People Partnership

• Operate as a high-impact partner to SLT and Heads of Department, guiding leadership teams to align talent strategies with business growth, transformation, and performance goals.
• Partner with Finance to lead workforce planning, organisational design, and strategic headcount decisions, balancing agility with financial acumen.
• Use people insights and market intelligence to anticipate business needs, drive organisational change, and influence senior stakeholders with data-led recommendations.
• Lead strategic conversations on future capability, succession, and readiness, ensuring a pipeline of talent aligned to evolving business priorities.

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Work closely with internal specialists across the People function, including:

1. L&D and Education: Align development priorities with business capability gaps and team growth plans.
2. Reward & Recognition: Shape compensation strategies that support equitable, motivating, and competitive reward practices.

• Co-lead business-wide people programs (e.g. performance cycles, pay reviews, leadership development, engagement surveys), ensuring consistency and strategic alignment.

Leadership Development & Team Enablement

• Coach and challenge senior leaders to embed a culture of accountability, high performance, and continuous development through an always-on approach to feedback.
• Provide inspirational line management and development support to junior people team members, fostering a learning culture within the People function.
• Role-model progressive people leadership, wellbeing advocacy, and inclusion best practices.

Workforce Planning & Talent Strategy

• Facilitate strategic workforce discussions with business leaders, ensuring talent structures support future business readiness.
• Support the creation and refinement of role profiles and team design to reflect organisational agility and inclusivity.
• Drive a strategic approach to internal mobility, succession planning, and skills-based hiring.

Colleague Experience & Culture

• Shape an end-to-end colleague experience strategy-from immersion to offboarding, reflecting our purpose, culture and values.
• Create and champion the use of feedback tools (engagement surveys, exit interviews, etc) to develop data led action plans for improved retention and culture, via our listening strategies.
• Partner with leaders to embed inclusive practices and foster a culture of belonging and trust.

Employee Relations

• Act as an escalation point on employee relations matters, balancing business risk with fairness and legal compliance.
• Partner with external counsel where required, ensuring best-in-class case management and policy application.
• Build leader capability in effective, values-based people management.

People Data & Insight

• Partner with the People Operations team to ensure high-quality people data supports strategic decision-making.
• Produce and interpret people metrics and dashboards to inform strategic planning, monitor trends, and improve decision-making.
• Continuously improve our use of data and systems to predict future workforce needs and opportunities.
• Leveraging people data and functional insights to inform, educate, and partner with departmental leaders-enabling them to drive tailored people strategies that support their team's unique goals and challenges.

Policy, Compliance & Governance

• Maintain a strong understanding of UK employment law and best practice to ensure compliant, forward-thinking policy design.
• Champion a culture of governance and ethical practice, ensuring People Policies are modern, inclusive, and regularly reviewed.
• Uphold the highest standards in data protection (GDPR) and confidentiality.

About You

• Proven experience as a strategic People Business Partner in a complex, fast-paced environment.
• Strong commercial acumen with a deep understanding of how people strategies drive business results.
• Adept at influencing senior stakeholders with credibility, empathy, and evidence-based insight.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, leading through change, and driving cross-functional collaboration.
• Expert knowledge of UK employment law, best practices, and cultural change.

What We Offer You!

• Generous Staff Discount on all your favourite ELEMIS products and spa treatments, as well as discounts on L'OCCITANE Group products (including L'Occitane, Erborian and more)
• Excellent well-being policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity policies, Income Protection, Life Assurance and more
• Generous Holiday Allowance, increasing with length of service
• Company Pension Scheme
• Bonus/Commission Scheme
• Healthcare Cash Plan (with Dental)
• Employee Assistance Programme for all Associates and their families
• Cycle to Work Scheme, Season Ticket Loan, Length of Service Awards
• Much, much more!

Some benefit eligibility is based on length of service or contract type