HR Business Partner

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Job reference REQ003795 Date posted 12/06/2024 Application closing date 26/06/2024 Location Retail - Remote Contractual hours Blank Basis Blank Job category/type Head office Attachments Blank

HR Business Partner - Retail, Family Leave Cover

At Seasalt we live and breathe our product and are proud of the exceptional quality and level of care we take in design and sourcing, to deliver beautiful garments which are loved by our customers. Based on the Cornish coast, we're a multi-channel lifestyle brand with over 70 shops across the UK & Ireland, over 400 wholesale stockists and a growing online business. Our success relies on a talented retail team who bring our values to life by helping our customers dress with creativity and confidence season after season.

Reporting to the Director of HR Business Partnering and Programmes you will be responsible for the HR service for your designated business areas. You’ll be responsible for translating business strategy into people plans in partnership with other HR teams to create a culture where talent thrives. You’ll be curious, credible, good at building trust and brave to challenge the norm.

With a strong commercial and people focus, including a broad understanding of key business levers. Working in partnership your fellow business partners, and the wider HR team you will focus on supporting and guiding your stakeholders to create and manage high performing and engaged teams that are focused on delivering the business goals efficiently and driving business profitability.

This role is offered as a full time, fixed term contract of up to 12 months to cover a period of family leave. Based remotely, ideally within the Midlands area, you will be covering stores in South East, Midlands and the North. You’ll need to live within regular commutable distance to stores within your patch and there will also be quarterly travel to Cornwall or other areas to attend meetings.

You'll help us by:

Driving a proactive approach to the people agenda, questioning and challenging others to get to the root cause of people and business issues and identify solutions. Developing and maintaining high functioning relationships with those you support, providing high support and high challenge. Facilitating regular listening sessions following engagement surveys to review results, create action plans to support initiatives to drive engagement.

Acting as the main point of contact between your stakeholders and the resourcing team, ensuring a timely and high level of service. Support departments to develop and maintain succession plans. Working with stakeholders to develop goal orientated and people centric development plans.

Delivering people management short courses to our leaders throughout the business. Partnering the Learning & Development team to contribute to the design of formal development programs.

Supporting project, change & consultation plans to secure critical business changes are implemented in a way that aligns with our values and being a strong and visible advocate for change, leading and supporting the business

Pro-actively supporting our culture and values and work with those you support to improve employee engagement levels within their teams. Ensuring an inclusive culture enabling everyone to be the best that they can be.

The skills you'll be sharing with the team:

• CIPD qualification level 5 or above, or equivalent
• A demonstratable understanding of the majority of HR disciplines and new emerging HR trends with Change Management & OD experience.
• Experience of management recruitment – from attraction to selection & succession planning.
• Good understanding & experience of standard HR KPIs, trending etc.
• Strong coaching and influencing skills.
• Understanding of how to drive Employee Engagement.
• Curiosity to understand ‘why’ and develop best fit solutions.
• Ability to analyse and diagnose business issues and translate these into people-based solutions.
• Ability to quickly and effectively build senior-level relationships with great influencing and communication skills.
• Strong organisational and planning skills with attention to detail.
• A love of being part of a high performing team.

  Why we hope you’ll love working with us:

The success of Seasalt is down to the skill and hard work of our team. We don't just want to attract the best and brightest people to come and work with us, we want you to stay and grow with us. From the moment your Seasalt journey begins, it's our pledge to support you by providing dedicated learning and development opportunities that will enhance your day-to-day working life and help you build your skills and knowledge.

As well as doing everything we can to boost your development professionally, we believe encouraging personal growth is just as important. So you can fulfil your passion and purpose, not just at work but in life, we offer a range of benefits that are designed to enhance your career and wellbeing:

• Salary: up to £45,000pa
• 34 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing with length of service
• Flexible benefits allowance to personalise your benefits package
• Private Medical Scheme including 24/7 virtual GP
• Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme through Retail Trust with 24/7 support
• Pension plan with generous 7% employer contributions
• Life assurance programme
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Flexible working opportunities with our ‘blended’ working approach
• Learning and Development opportunities including specialist training, coaching opportunities, and professional qualification support
• Employee networks to develop and provide support to our people, including the Inclusion Network and Culture Crew
• 100s of savings on top retailers and gym memberships through our discount hub

At Seasalt we have a brilliant team of people – they're what make Seasalt a fantastic place to work. We love to celebrate uniqueness and are committed to making Seasalt a place where everyone feels they belong. As an inclusive employer, we want to invite a diverse range of candidates to apply for our roles.

We aim to work flexibly where possible and value a range of perspectives -diversity of thought helps us to grow – so please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day. We're happy to help with any adjustments to our recruitment process and beyond. Just drop us an email at

Seasalt - a Cornish fashion company.Women's clothing, footwear and accessories inspired by thecreative and maritime heritage of Cornwall.

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