Senior Human Resource Manager – 10 month maternity cover

Job title:

Senior Human Resource Manager – 10 month maternity cover

Company

The White Company

Job description

Our Role

We are hiring a Senior People Partnership Manager on a 10-month maternity FTC to support the Head Office Human Resource function

As the Senior Manager of the People Partnership team, this role will lead the People Partnership (Human Resource) team assuming responsibility for people business partnership across all business areas (Head Office, Retail, and Contact Centre). The role will focus on building key relationships across all levels of the business (with particular focus on our Senior Leadership Team) to guide and influence better people-focused business decisions in all areas of people management.

The role acts as a key interface between all People Team areas (Talent Acquisition, Comms and Engagement, Pay and Reward, and L&D) and business partners, aiming to drive and align all communications, projects, and initiatives.

The role also takes ownership and accountability for driving our People Partnership strategy in employee relations, reward, organisational design, and people insight ensuring all areas are aligned to business strategy and support organisational growth.

What you’ll be doing

People Partnership

• Accountable for building and sustaining strong, credible and commercially focussed relationships with business partners and ensuring the People Advisors within your team do the same
• Develop and maintain a ‘people partnership’ philosophy and operating model to ensure the people team are seen as trusted advisors across all levels of the business
• Challenge and coach partners in making the best people focussed business decisions they can
• Coach, train and support stakeholders to ensure they are equipped to manage their teams in the best possible way and in line with TWC values and culture
• Accountable for the effective delivery of a high performing people support ensuring that the high standards within the team are developed and maintained
• Play an active role in setting the tone and sense of TWC values and culture and the way we do things

Insight

• Own people related analytics, metrics and insight delivery within all areas of the business
• Oversee the production of our People Business Plans that include people data metrics, that are visually striking and engaging, tell a story and are aligned to the people strategy
• Lead an approach that facilitates meaningful and impactful conversations with business partners to guide better business and people focused decisions

Organisation Design

• Shaping TWC Organisation Design strategy and philosophy including OD principles
• Develop and own a regular organisation design review process that considers organisation wide structures, resources and design in line with business and department strategies, trading performance and cultural considerations

Employee Relations

• Lead the development of a coherent ER strategy that boosts employee engagement, participation and involvement
• Be a strong point of contact between the People Team and legal advisors, Shoosmiths
• Be accountable for all case management across the business

Reward

• Lead the development of a reward strategy that is aligned to the business strategy and supports our growth goals
• Responsible for overseeing an approach to salary benchmarking that ensures our salaries remain competitive in the market place

Team

• Lead the People Partnership team to ensure that all members are operating a ‘one team’ mentality, bringing all channels together to operate in a complimentary and consistent way
• Work through the team to deliver people projects and initiatives calling on team members to step out of their comfort zones
• Adopt a coaching style of management to drive continuous learning and development of the team, setting the team up for success

Please refer to the Job description attached for more detail on role responsibilities

The skills & experience that you’ll need

• A passion for our brand and for helping people realise their potential
• An ‘ideas’ person – never satisfied with the status quo
• An honest, open and transparent way of working
• A love of seeing people succeed and be incredible
• A desire to build incredible relationships with our people, at all levels
• A genuinely positive way of managing external relationships with suppliers – and an ability to negotiate brilliant contracts (not just from a cost perspective, we value the ability to chose a great supplier and build a long term partnership)
• A way of working which encourages all those around you to think collectively and share success
• Experience in managing people and a desire to set a high standard in people management
• Experience in managing projects – from inception to delivery
• Being great with systems – definitely Microsoft Office but it would be a definite advantage to have the ability to quickly grasp new and innovative solutions
• Always wanting to create something special and influence others to do the same
• Creating an external network to support your own ongoing development and growth and to understand the external market

What we’ll offer you

At The White Company, we value our employees for always going the extra mile for every one of our customers; we reward this with great benefits and competitive salaries.

• Discount -Up to 50% discount
• Holiday – 25 days
• Bonus Potential – In addition to our competitive salaries, all our permanent employees are entitled to join a discretionary bonus scheme. (dependent on contract type)
• Perkplace Benefits Platform – offering a variety of discounts across wellbeing and lifestyle
• Wagestream Money Management app – access to Wagestream gives you power over your pay and supports financial wellbeing
• Continued Development – Inclusion on our Leadership Development Programme
• Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical

Additional Benefits (Head Office roles only)

Accountable for the effective delivery of a high performing people support ensuring that the high standards within the team are developed and maintained

• Fruit basket daily
• Tea and coffee provided
• Hybrid working – option to work from home on Mondays and Fridays and in the office Tuesday – Thursday
• Great Location – Close to transport links – overground Shepherds Bush station /underground White City & Wood Lane stations. Westfield shopping centre with shops restaurants/bars/cinema and gyms

Our Equality Diversity and Inclusion statement of commitment

At The White Company we are committed to creating an inclusive culture that welcomes and celebrates a diversity of backgrounds and identities.

We are working together to ensure our environment is one where people can bring their authentic selves to work, where their contribution is valued, ability enhanced, and perspective appreciated. Where difference is respected, encouraged, and celebrated. Where you can feel you belong.

We are committed to an active Equality Diversity and Inclusion Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process.

We’d love you to join us on our journey.

Our Sustainability statement of commitment

We are committed to building a sustainable legacy that will enable a brighter future for people and our planet.’ We believe this should be reflected in everything we do

Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 04:43:06 GMT

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