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.

We are recruiting for a HR Business Partner to be based on our Istanbul office! You will be responsible driving 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.

Key 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 internal partners, to analyse trends, key metrics and qualitative insights to determine and prioritise people activity
• Understand the local legislative landscape when handling changes, including organisational changes, taking into account the ‘art of the possible’
• Provide advice and Case Management expertise to resolve sophisticated 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 fostering talent, clarify career paths, manage colleague aspirations and clear succession planning
• Evaluate how well HR is delivering locally and use feed back to improve performance
• Accountable for handling the payroll activities in for the office in Turkey

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 HR experience and deep expertise in local HR processes
• Strong ER and Data Management skills.
• Experience of working internationally; developing process improvement
• Excellent stakeholder management/influence and the ability to easily engage with colleagues at all levels
• 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
• Able to build effective and strong working relationships.
• 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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