Regional HR Business Partner

Straight Line Retail Recruitment; St Albans; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retailer in the garden and home sector seeks a Regional HR Business Partner to enhance its HR function amidst planned growth. This field-based role requires an experienced CIPD qualified professional with strong stakeholder engagement and HR expertise to manage employee relations across multiple sites, ensuring operational excellence.

Qualifications

• CIPD qualified with relevant HR experience in a retail or service environment.
• Natural communicator with strong stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience with Employee Relations and talent development activities.

Responsibilities

• Drive HR best practices across the region and influence people management.
• Manage all HR related subjects including recruitment, induction, and development.
• Autonomous role with decision making responsibility regarding daily operations.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder Engagement

Employee Relations

Organizational Change Management (OCM)

Talent Development

Education

CIPD qualification

Job description

Regional HR Business Partner

South Central England (based from home)

£45 – 50,000 + Car Allowance, Bonus & Package

The Company

A business with a long and rich heritage, this retailer of all things garden and home-related has invested heavily in store refurbishment and expansion and is one of the best-knownbusinesses in its sector. As a result of planned growth and with a commitment to strengthening the HR function, they now seek to appoint an experienced HR Business Partner to this business-critical role.

The Role

Covering sites across Southern England, this is a field-based position essentially responsible for driving HR best practice across the region. You’ll partner with the operational team and will influence all aspects of people management to include ER, recruitment, induction and development, investigations and disciplinaries etc. Reporting to the Head of HR the role is an autonomous one with considerable remit with regards to day-to-day diary management and decision making. The position is based from home and involves a degree of remote working with visits to stores when appropriate.

The Candidate

A natural communicator with an ability to engage stakeholders, you’ll be CIPD qualified, ideally withfield HR experience in a retail or service-driven business. Candidates will be happy in a multi-site role and be organised with regards to diary management and influencing and providing guidance remotely. As the first point of contact with regards to all HR issues, you’ll have a broad experience of all HR related subjects but we are particularly keen to identify candidates with a good working knowledge of Employee Relations issues, OCM and talent and development activities. This is an interesting and stimulating role within a business whose current structure ensures that the position can really add value to both the region and the wider business.