People Partner

Boots UK; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous employee discounts for you

Enhanced parental leave pay

Employee Assistance Programme (TELUS)

Job summary

Boots UK is seeking a Workforce Planning, Transformation and Change People Partner to support people planning across business change activity. This Level 5 role involves shaping clear people plans, strengthening delivery and ensuring store and colleague impacts are understood early.

Location is Nottingham-based with field days, offering hybrid working and growth opportunities. You will partner with leadership to guide workforce planning through change, coordinate governance, and translate

Qualifications

• Experience of partnering with leaders to shape and deliver people plans during business or operating change.
• Strong understanding of store, field or operational environments, including workload, capacity and colleague impact.
• Ability to turn complex information into clear actions, risks, dependencies and recommendations.
• Confidence to provide constructive challenge and influence stakeholders across different functions.
• Strong organisation skills, with experience tracking actions, milestones and follow-up activity.

Responsibilities

• Provide People Partner level support across workforce planning, transformation and operating change activity.
• Translate change into clear people plans, risks, actions and decision requirements.
• Coordinate governance outputs, action tracking, risks, dependencies and follow-up across connected workstreams.
• Work collaboratively across functions to support effective delivery while enabling senior People.

Skills

Partnering with leaders

Shape and deliver people plans

Store/field experience

Data-driven decisions

Governance tracking

Job description

Contract: 12 Months

Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker Are you ready to make a real difference in a role that truly matters? At Boots, we’re looking for a for a Workforce Planning, Transformation and Change People Partner to support people planning across business change activity. This Level 5 role will help shape clear people plans, strengthen delivery, and ensure store and colleague impacts are understood early.

Contract: 12 Months

Location: 2 days in Head Office Nottingham, the rest of the week is Field-Based

Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker Are you ready to make a real difference in a role that truly matters? At Boots, we’re looking for a for a Workforce Planning, Transformation and Change People Partner to support people planning across business change activity. This Level 5 role will help shape clear people plans, strengthen delivery, and ensure store and colleague impacts are understood early.

What You’ll Be Doing

This role will provide People Partner level support across workforce planning, transformation and operating change activity. Working with the Head of People, business leads, programme teams, Operations, Logistics and People Partners, you’ll help translate change into clear people plans, risks, actions and decision requirements.

• Support the development of people plans that consider store impact, colleague workload, role accountabilities and leadership capacity.
• Provide challenge and assurance so proposed changes are practical, deliverable and thought through from a people perspective.
• Build clear people impact narratives and recommendations to support decision making and stakeholder alignment.
• Coordinate governance outputs, action tracking, risks, dependencies and follow-up across connected workstreams.

Work collaboratively across functions to support effective delivery while enabling senior People

What You’ll Need To Have (our Must-haves)

• Experience of partnering with leaders to shape and deliver people plans during business or operating change.
• Strong understanding of store, field or operational environments, including workload, capacity and colleague impact.
• Ability to turn complex information into clear actions, risks, dependencies and recommendations.
• Confidence to provide constructive challenge and influence stakeholders across different functions.
• Strong organisation skills, with experience tracking actions, milestones and follow-up activity.

Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics for different audiences.

It would be great if you also have

• Experience supporting workforce planning, role design or operating model activity.
• Experience working in a retail, healthcare or multi-site operational environment.
• Confidence using data and insight to support people planning and decision making.

Experience supporting UK governance meetings, programme activity or cross-functional projects.

Where your brilliance can take you

At Boots, we believe in nurturing talent and providing opportunities for growth. You’ll have access to various career development routes, allowing you to shape your future with us.

Rewards designed for you

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan (up to 12% company contribution)
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts for you and a family member
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

There’s lots more in our benefits and discounts, MyBoosts – there to give you that little lift in your everyday. Find out more at http://boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply; eligible roles only.

A Bit About Us

At Boots, we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, creating a place where everyone feels welcome, supported, and free to be themselves. We believe that when our people feel valued and included, they thrive, so we're committed to creating a brilliant Boots for our people so they can make a difference for our customers and colleagues every time.

We hope to hear from you soon.

Be brilliant with Boots.