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Salary Overview:
At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.
We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!
As a HR Business Partner, supporting our global sourcing colleagues, you will partner with functional leaders to build the people plan & priorities that support the strategy. You'll also support in leading its implementation in conjunction with the Group Functions agenda. Building valued and trusted relationships with help you drive the People agenda.What's the job?:
We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 82,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. 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.
At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.
We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!
As a HR Business Partner, supporting our global sourcing colleagues, you will partner with functional leaders to build the people plan & priorities that support the strategy. You'll also support in leading its implementation in conjunction with the Group Functions agenda. Building valued and trusted relationships with help you drive the People agenda.
- Use insight to define and drive the people and culture agenda for the Sourcing function to ensure organisational effectiveness through fit for future organisation design, ways of working, leadership, engagement and Board level team effectiveness.
- Coach leaders in using the tools and processes available to recruit, retain and develop their teams and create a hard-working and inclusive culture based on trust.
- Support leaders to deliver people and ways of working change effectively, including initiatives to improve business performance.
- Define the critical capabilities to deliver business performance and ensure the plan is in place to buy or build whatever is needed.
- Understand and communicate function/market needs to feed into the COE teams’ agenda, providing insight driven feedback to continuously improve.
- Work with leaders and their teams to identify future talent and coach leaders on strategies for nurturing talent, clarify career paths, manage colleague aspirations, and clear succession planning.
- Champion a culture of listening, sharing learning and inclusion so that colleagues can heard and perform at their best.
- Collaborate with local HR teams to influence activity and use feedback to improve performance.
- Balance the needs of multiple colleagues and priorities to continuously deliver impactful people plans.
- Significant HR Business Partner experience navigating a globally matrixed fast-paced environment.
- Able to lead change programmes and continuous improvement initiatives that drive business performance.
- Excellent Business Partnering and influencing skills with the ability to easily engage, build relationships with and positively challenge colleagues at all levels.
- Commercially minded with a "can do" attitude.
- Able to share messages to varying audiences and communicate clearly and concisely.
- Ability to manage and coordinate changing priorities, understand “what good looks like”
- Able to influence Group Functions initiatives and manage implementation at a functional level.
Be Customer Focused – constantly improving our customers’ experience
- I listen to my customers
- I use available data to help make decisions
Be Human – acting with humanity and care
- I do the right thing
- I am respectful
Be Curious – thrive on learning, thinking beyond the obvious
- I build and share new ideas
- I try new things and share my learnings
Be Agile – working with trust, pace and agility
- I have courage to be creative
- Done is better than perfect, I aim for 80/20
Be Inclusive – acting inclusively in diverse teams to work together
- I embrace allyship
- I have self-awareness and a desire to learn
Be Accountable – championing the plan to deliver results and growth
- I own my actions
- I understand the Kingfisher plan and how it relates to my role
At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.
In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination. We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!
We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.
Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.
