People Partner - Support Centres

In this vital role, you will report to the Head of People Partnering for Support Centres and will serve as a strategic business partner to a number of Senior Leaders for a designated business area., As a People Partner, you will play a crucial role in delivering the company's objectives through the engagement and delivery of the People Plan, with a focus on continually raising standards and enhancing the colleague experience. Supporting a culture that ensures 'Everyone is welcome at Booker' and that we truly are 'A place to get on'.

• Working as business partner to your customer group providing a timely, efficient, accurate and comprehensive People service
• Advising customer group on People policies, procedures and employee relations ensuring compliance to employment legislation.
• Supporting the creation of a culture which recognises the right behaviours and makes Booker 'A Place to Get On'.
• Supporting change management programmes and organisational design
• Supporting customer group in recruiting and onboarding talent.
• Facilitating the reward cycle, and advising on Pay Principles, challenging where appropriate.
• Networking with the wider People teams, support or lead national People projects and initiatives, feedback to allow fit for purpose interventions to be created.
• Championing self-development and keeping up to date with business initiatives as well as with changes in employment law.
• Ensuring the DE&I ethos is delivered through effective guidance and practice.
• Questioning and challenging others to identify people opportunities and support colleague experience
• Developing and implementing a customer People plan to support delivery of the business strategy
• Supporting customer area with talent and succession planning, creating and maintaining a talent pipeline working cross functionally where appropriate to create opportunities
• Mentor, support and develop colleagues in customer group and wider People team
• The role holder may be asked to undertake other duties, as required, which are not necessarily specified. It may be amended from time to time within the scope and general level of responsibility attached to this role
  
  Ability to make pragmatic decisions based on information given
• A natural ability to identify and nurture talent
• Strong intellectual capability, supported by exceptional levels of emotional intelligence, judgement and empathy
• Positive in nature
• Experience of dealing with complex ER cases and organisational change
• A high level of resilience
• Successful career to date with a core skill set around influencing senior stakeholders
• Exceptional coaching capability
• Strong, empathetic team leadership experience and a proven developer of talent
• Commercial understanding and approach to people initiatives
• Influencing at a senior stakeholder level
• Effectiveness in a remote role
• Ability to challenge, develop and embed cultural change