People Business Partner Senior Analyst

PepsiCo Deutschland GmbH; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 80,000 - GBP 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent international beverage company is seeking a Commercial People Business Partner in Reading, UK. The role involves developing people strategies, leading organizational change, and coaching leaders to foster high-performing teams. Ideal candidates possess extensive experience in change management, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence at all levels. This position offers the opportunity to shape the strategic people agenda while promoting a culture of inclusion and well-being.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to develop functional people strategies.
• Experience in leading transformation and cultural change initiatives.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and adapting to change.

Responsibilities

• Develop people strategies to drive performance.
• Lead organizational changes impacting employee engagement.
• Manage core people planning processes and analytics.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Change management

Coaching and influencing

Employee and labour relations

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.