Senior People Partner

6 months ago


Swindon, United Kingdom WHSmith Full time

**Senior People Partner - High Street Stores**

**12 month Fixed Term Contract**

Hybrid working with 1-2 days per week in Swindon Head Office with store visits and remote working

**Salary**: £Competitive plus benefits

From Employee Relations and L&D, to Payroll & Reward and Recruitment. HR is right at the heart of WHSmith. These specialists, plus our generalist HR team, support the entire Group in looking after our 14,000+ employees. Because life moves so fast in our business, HR has to move quickly too. You’ll need to take the initiative and be ready to make big decisions, fast. Here, HR is all about finding innovative, commercial solutions and putting them into action.

We have an exciting opportunity for a **Senior People Partner** to join our passionate, commercial and fast paced HR team. Reporting into the People Director - High Street you will partner with the Stores Director and their Senior Operations Team to drive people capability, engagement and strategic initiatives as part of the HR business plan.

**What you’ll do**:
As a key ambassador for our Stores HR team you’ll be responsible for creating, designing and implementing our stores vision and strategy forwards. You will be passionate about HR and have previous experience of delivering and leading large, complex change management and transformational change programmes and providing comprehensive HR Support; whilst understanding that everything we do is to ensure our customers experience is second to none. Acting as a point of escalation for our Employee Relations and HR Management teams you’ll be comfortable providing specialist ER advice, guidance and best practice as well as generalist knowledge.

Working with our Senior Leadership Teams across Store Operations you will design and plan the strategy for our HR roadmap, challenging thinking, ways or working and processes to create the best in class HR service at WHSmith. To compliment this you’ll need to be confident influencing senior business stakeholders. Using data and analytics you’ll drive longer term thinking and decision making, able to articulate, present and clearly define insight and actions from data analysis.

To fulfil this role, you will need to be able to travel throughout the UK and commute roughly two days per week in our Swindon Head Office. If you are driven by results and looking for an innovative business that actively encourages our employees to bring new ideas to the table then why not explore WHSmith further.

**Who we’re looking for**:

- Previous experience in a Retail / FMCG / Hospitality / Leisure HR function - or a similar industry that is fast paced, complex and consistently changing
- Strong experience of managing senior business stakeholders providing insightful business partnering, influencing and challenging where appropriate.
- The ability to create and drive a strategic HR vision, with strong project management/change management experience.
- Strong Employee Relations background and experience managing TUPE, Disciplinary, Grievance, Redundancy
- Ability and experience understanding the intricacies of providing HR support to a highly fast moving retail environment
- Personal strength and resilience. A ‘can do’ philosophy will be essential for success.
- CIPD Level 7 qualified would be a benefit but is not essential

**How we reward our teams**
- Hybrid working model
- 4pm Friday finish
- Flexible Working
- Competitive Salary and Car Allowance
- Annual Bonus based on company and personal performance
- 25 days holiday, plus your Birthday off and an opportunity to buy up to 26 extra days leave
- Family Friendly Leave
- Company Pension
- Sharesave Scheme
- Private Medical
- Staff Discount Card in stores and online

**About us**

Celebrating 230 years, we’re proud to have grown and evolved into a globally recognised brand present in over 30 countries around the world, and we’re proud to be that air of familiarity people love and trust on their journey, both in life and through life. As a diverse group of over 12,000 colleagues, we are all on the same journey to a better business through our commitments to our planet, people and the communities we serve.

WHSmith have occupied our place as the Hub of the High Street and in our customers’ hearts since 1792. Across our diverse estate of c.525 stores on UK high streets, with our wide-ranging store sizes and formats, we sell a large range of products including stationery, greeting cards, art and craft, newspapers, magazines, books and drinks. We are an ambitious team that thrives on pace, collaboration and innovation resulting in a real entrepreneurial culture.

WHSmith are proud to be an inclusive employer, we want our colleagues to feel welcome, and free to be themselves with us.

**Format of Business**
- HR

**Full Time / Part Time**
- Full Time

**Position Type**
- Fixed Term

**Salary From**
- Competitive

**Salary To**
- Competitive

**Hours / Week**
- 36.25

**Country**
- UK

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