HR Business Partner

We’re Kingfisher. You might know us as B&Q, Screwfix, Castorama, Brico Depot or Koçtaş. We’re made up of over 78,000 passionate people, call over 1,300 stores home and operate in 8 countries. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

Role Purpose

Drive the regional people agenda by building valued relationships with functional leaders and their teams to champion a customer focussed, agile and inclusive culture within the function. Use the tools and processes provided by the COEs to make sure leaders and colleagues perform at their best.

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities:

• Drive and influence the people and culture agenda to ensure organisational effectiveness
• Coach leaders in using the tools and processes available to recruit, retain and develop their teams and create a high performing and inclusive culture based on trust
• Support leaders to deliver change effectively, including initiatives to improve business performance.
• Understand and communicate function/market needs to feed into the COE teams agenda.
• Work in partnership with the business, working with stakeholders, to analyse trends, key metrics and qualitative insights to determine and prioritise people activity
• Understand the local legislative landscape when managing changes, including organisational changes, taking into account the ‘art of the possible’
• Provide advice and Case Management expertise to resolve complex ER cases. Manage local aspects of employee consultation relating to change & keep BP informed on progress.
• Work with leaders and their teams to identify future talent and coach leaders on strategies for nurturing talent, clarify career paths, manage colleague aspirations and clear succession planning
• Champion a culture of listening, sharing learning, inclusion and working agily so that colleagues can be heard and perform at their best
• Provide feedback to the group COEs to ensure continuous improvement
• Evaluate how well HR is delivering locally and use feed back to improve performance
• Accountable for managing the payroll activites in for the office in Turkey
• Manage stakeholders across function(s) to set delivery expectations whilst assuring effective initiative implementation

Required Skills & Experience:

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a degree of ambiguity.
• A strong commercial acumen and a “can do” attitude
• Broad generalist experience and deep expertise in local ‘technical/hard’ HR processes
• Strong ER and Data Management skills.
• Experience of working internationally; developing process improvement and managing remotely/through a matrix
• Excellent stakeholder management/influence and the ability to easily engage with colleagues at all levels, including appropriate challenge
• Intellectually and commercially astute with strong business partnering and influencing skills and the ability to build credible relationships quickly at all levels of the organisation
• Coaching style
• Able to build effective and strong working relationships.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to share a message to varying audiences and communicate clearly and concisely
• Ability to manage and coordinate changing priorities, understand ‘what good looks like’
• Be able to demonstrate the improvement of business performance through results

This is an exciting opportunity to join our global business! In return, we provide an inspirational working environment, a competitive benefits package and opportunities to stretch and grow your career. Interested? Great, we can’t wait to hear from you.

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