About the role
Human Resources Business Partner
Permanent
up-to £65k + Pension + BUPA + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday + bonus + Hybrid Working (2-3 days per week in the office)
Southampton, Store Support Office with occasional travel to London
We have a fantastic new opportunity for a HRBP who is ready for their next challenge to join our team at our B&Q Stores support office and work alongside our Technology and Property functions. If you love working at pace, are passionate about coaching leaders to drive high performance and want to work in a business that cares about and values its people this may well be for you. We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better.
From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they'll love. Join us as a Human Resources Business Partner and you'll be a big part of this.
Key responsibilities
1. Drive the planned people agenda for your function, and be the first point of contact acting with integrity and balancing the needs of the function with your role within the People team.
2. Coach leaders to deliver improved business performance through the engagement and wellbeing of their people. Confidently hold leaders to account on role modelling our values.
3. Work with the Head of HR and specialist HR teams to deliver and drive improvements in annual key people activity, as well as key projects.
4. Use regular balanced scorecard insight to identify trends, risks and opportunities within assigned functions, ensure plans are in place to address them and look for simple solutions to continually improve.
5. Bring healthy challenge to the conversation, influencing others to encourage a culture of continuous improvement and a people-first mindset.
6. Support the Head of HR in planning and implementing organisational changes by coaching and upskilling leaders to implement change, and working with specialist HR teams to ensure changes are embedded and sustained.
7. Role model caring for yourself and taking responsibility for your wellness, whilst also asking for support when you need it.
8. Demonstrate a passion for learning, being open to new ideas and experiences, and also sharing your knowledge and expertise with others to benefit the whole team.
Required skills & experience
1. Ability to quickly build strong relationships with senior business stakeholders, and embed within business functions as a trusted partner.
2. Strong influencing skills, resilience, and the ability to apply sound professional judgement.
3. A confident coach and mentor, you will be adept at upskilling managers in people leadership.
4. Confident in delivering and embedding change in an organisation with a good understanding of the commercial impact of people initiatives.
5. Some experience working in partnership with financial teams regarding budget and headcount.
6. Happy to analyse and interpret data to inform decisions.
What's in it for me?
As part of a great team, you'll be valued for who you are. We're committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities. You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business.
We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, bonus, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more!
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