HR Business Partner

Boots Opticians; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Job Description

Contract: Permanent

Closing date: 8th April

Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior People Partner to partner the People/HR function. This is a unique partnering opportunity, as it will combine being the People partner for the People/HR function, developing and owning the team’s people agenda, whilst also being a critical driver of our own transformation programme.

To be successful you need to be a strong stakeholder manager – you will be partnering and challenging your own functional leaders!

This role would suit a seasoned Senior HR Business Partner both capable of long term strategic thinking about how the function needs to evolve at the same time as getting their hands dirty to deliver it, with experience of driving functional and cultural change.

You will report into the Director of People, Business Partnering for Support Office.

The ideal candidate will be able to look at the holistic requirements of the total function. You will use your experience in galvanising and leveraging key stakeholders to enable People Transformation to be effective for the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner the CPO and the People Leadership team (PLT).
• Influence and deliver the overall short, mid to long term people priorities for the function (in conjunction with PLT) to align to our key priorities.
• Work in partnership with members of PLT and their teams to deliver the people elements of the transformational change, accountable for people related change initiatives.
• Work with People Transformation Lead to shape and then deliver the ‘Transformation of the People function’ agenda, partnering with PLT.
• Manage transition, change management and embed change across the function.
• Focus on driving the core people agenda, ensuring that our people processes in the function are working well (engagement, reward, talent management and acquisition, Leadership development, strategic workforce planning, longer term capability building, organisational design and development).
• Use People MI to understand hotspots, trends and key focus areas to drive the agenda forward.
• Track progress, then create and present People plan and Transformation program updates to the CPO and PLT.
• Develop and own the engagement strategy for the function: delivering through others including the new People forum. Develops the calendar of engagement in the function; drives events and touchpoints to help take the function on the change journey.
• Define the agenda for monthly People Leadership team meetings and facilitate the meeting ensuring the EA has collated actions. Coordinate with appropriate partner to identify key content and content owners for agenda items to be discussed at PLT meetings.

What you’ll need to have

• Gravitas to operate confidently and challenge up to executive management level within your own function! Comfortable to be an uncomfortable companion challenging the leaders as appropriate.
• Significant experience of Senior HR Partnering with senior stakeholders within a complex commercial and / or retail environment and experience of operating within an HR/People Centres of Expertise model.
• Strong moral courage with resilience and tenacity to lead through ambiguity.
• Have the energy and enthusiasm to champion new ways of working and thinking.
• Strong change leadership experience – influences senior teams to guide through effective organisation change strategies in a variety of scenarios.
• Able to lead, motivate, coach, support, challenge and develop others to be at their best.
• Experience of leading, driving and tracking delivery of programmes and projects of work effectively.
• Experience of facilitation and coaching of management at all levels.

It would be great if you also have

• CIPD qualified.

Our benefits

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan.
• Discretionary annual bonus.
• Generous employee discounts.
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child.
• Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply, eligible roles only. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

Why Boots

At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, with you, we change for the better.

What's next

Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

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Business Area

Support Office

Function

HR

Keywords

Senior, hr, people, partner

Hours per week

37.5

Latitude,longitude 1

52.927182,-1.183948

Is this a Global Brands req?

No

Airport

No

Company

Non Stores

Division

Non Stores

Should this vacancy be excluded from being posted onto the Boots.jobs career site?

No

Region

East Midlands

Area

East Midlands (non stores)

Store

Nottingham Support Office

Req Posted Date

25-Mar-2025

County

Nottinghamshire

Country

UK

Address 1

Recruitment Service Centre (D94)

Address 2

Thane Road

Address 3

Nottingham