HR / People Partner

Here at AO, no two days are the same and this is certainly the case in our fast paced and highly visible People Partner role. You'll use your experience, commercial 'know how' and business understanding to support, coach and influence, across our Customer & Financial Services and operational teams. You'll develop and deliver local people initiatives aligned to operational needs, creating a best-in-class colleague experience, which is our priority and in everything that we do! Your data led insight will support business decisions, getting stuck in across workforce planning, engagement, performance and all the way through to local talent management. Our people are our superpower, and we're unstoppable when we're together! We want your ideas to flow, and what better way to make that happen than being based onsite, 5 days a week, where our culture fuels creativity, collaboration and growth. If a £1 bet in the pub between two friends can become the UKs most trusted electrical retailer, imagine what else can be achieved when we we're together!Here's What You Can Expect To Be Doing

• Building strong and credible relationships across the management teams, working collaboratively to enable a high performance culture
• Enabling line managers to be the best they can, through your coaching, guidance and support to deliver a brilliant colleague experience and generate high performance
• Through your commercially focused support and problem solving develop initiatives which ensures our customers our at the heart of everything we do
• Using data and insight to help Managers identify opportunities and develop initiatives that drive value for our customers
• Working collaboratively across the full people team, supporting business wide activities
• Having confidence to push boundaries and work alongside the business areas to truly make a difference, The data will never have any bearing on whether an application is successful or not and will not be available to hiring managers at any stage.
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• You'll be a good listener making time to get to know the teams and departments, building your understanding of their skills, interests and motivations, to work together effectively
• You'll be adaptable, always evolving and getting stuck in to deliver projects AO Speed
• Ability to consider the bigger picture, always being curious and asking 'why'
• Be able to use data & insight to identify opportunities and create solutions
• You'll create a reputation across the business as a trusted partner, able to influence at all levels
• Results driven, with determination, resourcefulness, resilience and commitment to delivering the best results
• Able to always act with integrity and impartiality, handling emotive issues with sensitivity
  
  We're known for helping our customers brilliantly - and it's no different for AOers. We care about more than what's on your CV, because together we can do extraordinary things.
  
  Our Value Creation Plan; We've created a unique long term bonus plan for every AOer to share in our success, giving you the opportunity of an exceptional reward in return for exceptional business performance.
• Holidays; 25 days, plus bank holidays (increasing to 27 days after 2 years with us!)
• Pension; Contribute 5% of your annual salary and we'll do the same, giving you a little extra support for the future.
• Be VIP at the AO Arena; we have loads of opportunities to win free tickets and pre-sale access!
• Health & wellbeing; discounted gym membership, an onsite spa and our Help @ Hand scheme giving you access to virtual GP's, Mental Health support and much more.
• Discounts; exclusive discounts across our product range.
• Family leave; Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave.
• Making a difference; 2 fully paid days a year to donate your time to any charity of your choice.
• On site perks; start your day with free on site parking, grabbing a complimentary breakfast and a coffee at our subsidised Starbucks!, Surname
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• Reasonable adjustments We want to make sure you're given the best possible chance to shine in your interview, so you may need us to do things in a slightly different way. This could be requesting a ground floor room or bringing along a sign interpreter to name just a few. Fill in the below box if there's anything we need to know so we can adjust the process to support you.AO is for everyone We should all feel that we belong. That's why we are creating a welcoming and inclusive place to work. We're proud to be different. From how we look to the way we talk to our customers, we skip to the beat of our very own drum. We know that being different together is our superpower and we celebrate it because it makes us stronger, more creative, and better at what we do. We believe the people we employ should reflect the diversity of our customer base; that way, we can communicate in a way that recognises all backgrounds, races, ethnicities, genders, ages, religions, abilities, and sexual orientations. And that's why we're asking these questions. Making sure our recruitment process is inclusive is a key part of what we're doing at AO to encourage diversity as an employer. How will we use the data? After we've collated the data, we'll look at the patterns to assess if we are inclusive at each stage. If it turns out that we aren't, then the data may help us identify where we can improve.