Senior People Partner

1 month ago


Basingstoke Hampshire, United Kingdom Gist Limited Full time €85,000

Working in partnership with M&S, at Gist we deliver industry-leading logistics and supply chain transformation.

We value, celebrate, and believe in the power of individuality and strive to create a work environment where everyone can be themselves. We want you to join us, bring your authentic self to work and unlock your full potential.

We are looking for a strategic and commercially minded HR professional with a passion for delivery to join our People Partnering Team in the role of Senior People Partner – Head Office Functions, Transport, Strategy & Optimisation on a 12 month FTC.

What’s in it for you?

Gist is an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and evolving business built on our core values. Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for Gist just that little bit more special.

  • 20% M&S discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food
  • 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (rising with length of service)
  • Private Health Insurance
  • Discounted rates on healthcare cash plan
  • Attractive annual bonus scheme, based on M&S performance and personal objectives
  • Auto Enrolment Pension or competitive Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and life assurance (up to 4 times salary)
  • Amazing perks and discounts via our App to major restaurants and retailers
  • Access to a wide range of wellbeing support – including our Employee Assistance Programme
  • A first-class welcome with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development
  • Cycle to work scheme

Salary: £85,000 per annum

Hours: 37.5 per week | Monday to Friday

Working pattern: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

What you’ll do:

  • You will work alongside other Senior People Partners to drive consistency, clarity and process alignment across our operational & Head office divisions, supporting an aligned Employee Value Proposition
  • You will lead discussions with our Centres of Expertise, to ensure centrally created solutions are fit for purpose for your Operational Stakeholders, aiding understanding of our workforce demographics and supporting agile and fit for purpose solutions to be developed and executed
  • Not only will you play a vital role in business partnering our Head office SLT (IT, Finance, HR, H&S) you will business partner our Transport Director and Strategy Director, supported by your HR team, evolving our service offer to support our end to end employee lifecycle
  • Translate our functional People Strategy into People Plans for the business units and functions and interface the relationship between HR and the business. Work alongside our Transport Director, Strategy Director and Head Office functional directors to ensure we have an aligned people plan, ensuring consistency in approach aligned to best practice execution is achieved
  • As a key member of our Operational People team, you will work closely with your functional and regional leaders on how best to land and evolve key people initiatives including engagement, organisation design, TUPE, organisation effectiveness, performance management and employee development
  • Ensure that for any projects or initiatives that may impact collective agreements across people partnering, that the necessary engagement is undertaken via the appropriate Senior People Partner to support our partnership approach
  • Lead the development of an effective workforce strategy to unlock capability and capacity barriers across our functional areas
  • Contribute to the development of the overall People, Safety & Culture priorities, being responsible for developing a best-in-class People Partnering Service – aligning with other Senior People Partners to gain consistency in our approach, whilst enabling capability to be built across Operational & HR teams
  • Lead and own the Capability, Succession and Talent Review process, aligned to Gist Policy for your functional areas. Ensuring we have clarity over critical roles, succession plans, high potential colleagues and how to identify unacceptable performance

Who you are:

  • Displays exceptional drive and tenacity in implementing the HR strategy.
  • Identifies and builds strong relationships.
  • Operates ethically with integrity and complete confidentiality
  • Display behaviours consistent with Gist values.
  • Flexibility to travel across multiple sites nationwide including head office
  • Ability to facilitate the process of change, grow a new capability and establish a new way of working. Comfortable working with ambiguity, a patient individual with the ability to influence others on longer term thinking/planning that doesn’t necessarily have impact tomorrow, but delivers the right end result
  • A strong understanding of all HR functional competencies to partner effectively with the Centres of Expertise to inform design of holistic solutions that meet business needs
  • A solid track record working closely with senior leaders, providing objective advice, challenging thinking, and influencing key people-related decisions
  • Ability to manage sometimes-conflicting priorities of various leadership teams and initiatives while applying judgement to produce exceptional results that drive our business forward
  • Comfortable working with ambiguity, a patient individual with the ability to influence others on longer term thinking/planning that doesn’t necessarily have impact tomorrow, but delivers the right end result
  • History of working within a busy and pressurised environment
  • Experience in a role with strong customer focus and service levels
  • Knowledge of HR policies and legislation
  • Experience of working for a large commercial operational organisation

Why Gist?

At Gist we are united by our core values; with safety and people at the heart of everything do, we areprogressive, accountable, collaborative,andethical.

Our objective is to establish a performance-focused environment that is fair and inclusive, where everyone can develop, and connect meaningfully to their manager, the Gist vision, and M&S. We are fiercely protective of everyone’s health, safety, and wellbeing, and align firmly to M&S’s sustainability commitments in Plan A.

Gist will play an integral part in the M&S journey as it pushes boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring era. As part of the M&S group, there’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Join us and make an immediate impact.

Gist aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment. If it’s meaningful to you, it’s important to us.

Our Internal Recruitment Team fulfil all vacancies on a direct basis. Unsolicited contact by unapproved agencies (sharing speculative CVs) will not be accepted and introductory fees will not apply.

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