People Partner

Role Overview

• Build trusted relationships with stakeholders and provide commercially focused people partnering support aligned to business priorities.
• Support leaders to drive performance, engagement, capability, and team effectiveness.
• Coach and support leaders to build high-performing and inclusive teams.
• Support a consistent and performance-led leadership culture across business areas.
• Support talent identification, succession planning, and development activity across allocated business areas.
• Contribute to building sustainable leadership and talent pipelines.
• Support delivery of organisational change initiatives and people priorities within business areas.
• Ensure change activity is delivered consistently and with appropriate employee support and engagement.
• Use people data and insights to identify risks, trends, and opportunities.
• Support evidence-based people interventions and decision making.
• Work collaboratively with Employee Relations and Centres of Expertise to deliver joined-up people solutions.
• Contribute to People Team initiatives while promoting inclusion, wellbeing, and positive employee experience.

Requirements

• Strong commercial acumen and focus on business performance.
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building capability
• Strong coaching and influencing skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good diagnostic and problem-solving capability.
• Ability to balance operational delivery with strategic thinking.
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and fast-paced environments.
• Strong analytical capability with attention to detail.
• Collaborative and solutions-focused approach.
• Resilient and calm under pressure.
• Passion for employee experience, inclusion, and leadership development.
• Strong integrity and sound judgement.
• Experience supporting employee relations, organisational change, performance management, talent, and engagement activity.
• Experience coaching and influencing leaders.
• Ability to analyse people data and translate insights into practical actions.
• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of operational business environments.
• Previous experience within a People Partner, HR Advisor, HR Business Partner, or equivalent people-focused role.
• CIPD Level 5 qualified or equivalent experience

Benefits

• Generous 50% staff discount so you can treat yourself to the latest products, and a bargain staff shop on site!
• Reducing Islanders everyday expenses through discounts, benefits, financial advice, wellbeing solutions and more through the Retail Trust.
• A free onsite gym, subsidised restaurant & café to fill your needs. Various social events to socialise throughout the year.
• Every family is unique, we support Islanders with all different family setups enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility treatment. We also work closely with the Retail Trust to create dedicated support for all our Islanders!
• Flexible working, on top of payday and summer early finish Fridays.
• Give as you earn scheme, a ‘Giver Island’ day each year and receive matched funding.
• Support with upskilling through on the job training and qualifications. A succession plan if you want to progress.
• A generous bonus scheme & private pension plan.
• The choice to opt in for healthcare through our provider AXA.
• 25 days paid holiday, exclusive of Bank Holidays. With the added option to purchase additional holiday twice a year for whatever the need!