People Business Partner Sr Analyst

PepsiCo, Inc.; Reading; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global beverage company in the UK is seeking a Commercial People Business Partner to develop and implement people strategies. This role involves partnering with executive teams, driving employee engagement initiatives, and managing people-related issues. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, change management experience, and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels. This position offers opportunities for significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to drive transformation and cultural change.
• Experience in leveraging people data for effective strategies.
• Strong employee and labour relations capability.

Responsibilities

• Develop people strategies and action plans with leadership.
• Lead organisational change impacting employee engagement.
• Champion continuous improvement in the People space.

Skills

Analytical skills

Change management experience

Employee engagement initiatives

Coaching and influencing

Results-oriented

Tools

Visier

Job description

Overview

As a Commercial People Business Partner your role is to collaborate with key business stakeholders to define the strategic people agenda for their functions, working closely with the extended leadership teams and People Centres of Excellence to deliver across key initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Commercial UK/I executive and functional LTs to develop people strategies and action plans following to drive performance across the teams.
• Partner and lead any organisational change impacting people or employee engagement (key focus areas are Talent, Career and Engagement).
• Coach leaders toward empathetic leadership and develop high performing teams.
• Partner with leaders and employee relations lead regarding people related issues within their teams.
• Partner with Regional and Global People Partners to develop opportunities for collaboration and best practice sharing.
• Data focussed - Support tracking, analytics and talent metrics, to monitor ROI, impact of initiatives, and specific targets.
• Champion continuous improvement in the People space within functions, including but not limited to Culture, Inclusion, Wellbeing, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, and Learning and Development.
• Manage all Core people planning processes, including Talent Review, Performance Management process, Organisational Health (OHS) etc.

Qualifications

Proven ability to develop functional people strategies and drive action plans to achieve business and people goals. Ability to drive transformation, cultural change and employee engagement initiatives with extensive change management experience. Strong analytical skills translating data to insight. Experience in Visier to leverage people data to create effective strategies. Experience communicating, coaching and influencing at all levels including executives. Comfortable with ambiguity and able to adapt quickly to a constantly changing environment. Ability to work autonomously with little supervision and manage competing, multiple priorities and timelines with high integrity. Strong employee and labour relations capability and experience. Results-oriented - demonstrates perseverance and resilience towards reaching objectives, confronts and works to resolve tough issues, exhibits a can-do attitude and a disposition to face significant challenges. Ability to think creatively and bring new ideas to the table (e.g. find and deliver pragmatic solutions within various constraints such as time, resource, policy and practicality). Proficiency in UKI legislation, policies and procedures, as well as leveraging the organisation structure (e.g partnering with people functional teams/CoE) to get to the best possible solution balancing risks and benefits for both the business and individuals.