HR Business Partner

BOOTS; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Boots as an HR Business Partner in our Nottingham Support Office, where you'll play a key role in shaping HR strategies for our Healthcare Business Unit. This position offers the opportunity to influence change, develop HR solutions, and collaborate with leadership teams to drive growth. We're looking for someone with strong business partnering skills and HR expertise to help us navigate our exciting transformation.

Benefits

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous employee discounts

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay

Flexible benefits scheme

Access to free counselling and support

Qualifications

• Ability to influence across a wide stakeholder network.
• Experience of managing complex people change.
• Strong knowledge of HR trends and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Steer and deliver the people plan for the function.
• Coach and influence senior leaders on people issues.
• Manage HR projects including engagement and training.

Skills

Business partnering skills

Problem-solving mindset

Broad generalist HR expertise

Education

CIPD qualified (or equivalent experience)

Job description

Contract: Perm & Full Time

Location: Nottingham Support Office

Closing Date: Friday 6th June, 2025

Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker-McGrath, [e-mail]

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity to join our HR Business Partnering Team within our Nottingham Support Office, partnering with our Healthcare Business Unit.

Healthcare is one of the largest, most exciting areas of the Boots business. It has been at the heart of our business for our 176-year history and we are currently engaged in an extensive transformation of its operating model that will ensure it is part of our future for many years to come.

You will report into the Head of HR and sit at the heart of the people agenda for the respective function, where you will gain an understanding of the function you partner, collaborating with the leadership teams to deliver the exciting growth and BAU strategy for Healthcare.

Key Responsibilities:

• Together with the Head of HR, steer, shape and deliver the people plan for the function that enables it to achieve its in-year objectives through creative and strategic HR solutions.
• Combine a knowledge of the function with external insights and understanding of best practice and internal people metrics to identify, develop and deploy people interventions and solutions.
• Build strong collaborative relationships with HR team members in other partnering teams, and the HR Centres of Excellence to guarantee an integrated approach across the function, and bringing insight about wider organisational activities to each business area.
• Deliver a range of HR solutions that are tailored and appropriate for the specific function e.g. the development of team member capabilities, engaging teams on new ways of working, talent and succession planning, wellbeing and employee experience to name but a few. The scope is extensive and will provide a great variety of opportunities for the successful candidate to positively impact their business areas.
• Coach, support, and influence senior leaders on all people 'lifecycle' issues and the overall people agenda
• Manage and execute various HR projects, including colleague engagement, training and development, organisational change initiatives.

What you'll need to have

• Business partnering skills and the ability to influence across a wide and varied stakeholder network.
• Ability to support the business to drive change in complex and often ambiguous environments.
• Broad generalist HR expertise across the full HR 'lifecycle'
• Strong knowledge of trends, ideas, and innovation in HR and how to apply them appropriately to business context
• Experience of facilitation and coaching
• A problem-solving mindset, with a focus on root-cause analysis and creative solutions.
• Experience of managing complex people change, partnering leaders and inspiring teams.

It would be great if you also have

• CIPD qualified (or equivalent experience)
• Experience contributing to the change and transformation agenda with a working knowledge of organisational design and delivery

Our benefits

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply, eligible roles only. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

Why Boots

At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, with you, we change for the better.

What's next

If your application is successful, a member of the recruitment team will contact you.

Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.