Regional HR Change Partner

Salary: £72,000 – £90,000 per year

Regional HR Change Partner – Retail / Hospitality

Location: Region North, North-West and North East

Field based with requirement to support project activity via specified locations related to projects

Salary: £72,000 – £90,000 + car + bonus + corporate benefits

The HR Change Partner will support the delivery of the People Ops Change plan within retail / hospitality Operations by working flexibly across projects to ensure successful implementation, and working in partnership and influencing Operations Directors, ROMs, and HRBP Ops.

You will scope, design, and develop correct change practices to implement and execute the required change activity including management of short-term change requirements across Operations (tactical) and longer term strategic business transformation activity. This will include defining correct objectives, measurement and success criteria to deliver the process through effective and efficient controls and leadership behaviours, ensuring sustainability.

You will provide commercial and coaching People generalist service to the business with a particular focus on HR Change, Employee Relations, Estate changes and if required any Union activity. This might be in support of estate changes like selling of properties, TUPE requirements and/ or significant change impact on site teams.

You will act as additional Employee Relations support in managing complex/senior/multi-level, ER caseloads; providing pragmatic HR advice, guidance and support to Operations when cases cannot be resolved through first and second level tiering (ER helpdesk/ER Delivery Manager) depending on case complexity.

There will be ongoing requirements to devise, implement and maintain relevant People tools, processes and insight in line with the agreed Operational HR plan and brand objectives that enable operational leaders to deliver sustainable action in their teams utilising learnings from internal company engagement processes and operational interfaces and listening groups/activity.

The person:

• Degree educated or equivalent with HR qualifications e.g. CIPD L7 or and MA in Human Resources
• An experienced HR business partner and change agent gained in a customer-facing organisation who understands the wider industry and networks to build competitive advantage.
• Previous experience in a regional HR role
• Experience of designing, developing and rolling out change management programmes, and understanding the factors that affect their success.
• Strong experience in a HR generalist, change and ER roles.
• Experience of working closing with operational teams and driving performance
• Managing stakeholders at Senior level i.e. Operations Directors, Heads of HR, ROMS
• A background in a large-scale matrix operational organisation is a distinct advantage.
• You will have relevant employment law knowledge and an understanding what the organisation needs to do to mitigate relevant risk.
• Flexibility to travel Regionally and on occasion UK wide including overnight stays

To apply please email your CV or call for more details