People Bussiness Partner (Maternity Cover)

JoJo Maman Bébé; City of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A renowned children's clothing brand is seeking a People Business Partner for maternity cover. You will be integral to shaping talent strategies and ensuring the smooth operation of reward and people systems. The role involves close collaboration with leadership to align workforce planning with business needs. The successful candidate will have HR experience in talent management and systems oversight, contributing to an inclusive and engaging workplace culture.

Benefits

Hybrid working options

Extra annual leave for service

Non-contractual bonus scheme

Enhanced pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Dog friendly offices

40% off JoJo branded products

Health and Well-being hub

Qualifications

• Experience in HR role dealing with talent management and people systems.
• Comfortable influencing managers and senior stakeholders.
• Confidence to make informed, people-focused decisions.

Responsibilities

• Support talent attraction and workforce planning.
• Oversee recruitment activity ensuring an engaging candidate experience.
• Contribute to people transformation projects.

Skills

HR experience focusing on talent management

Compensation and benefits frameworks

HR systems oversight

Data analysis and reporting

Employment law understanding

Coaching and mentoring skills

Team management experience

Adaptable in agile environment

Education

CIPD Level 5 or equivalent experience

Job description

People Bussiness Partner (Maternity Cover)

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Your role in the JoJo story…

Are you energised by shaping how organisations attract, retain and reward brilliant people? Do you love combining talent strategy, smart systems and meaningful reward to help a business grow? If so, we’d love you to join us on this journey.

We’re looking for a People Business Partner to join us on a fixed-term basis to cover maternity leave. You’ll play an important role in building the talent, reward and people systems foundations that support our People strategy.

Working closely with our Head of People, you’ll help shape and deliver how we bring great people into the business, how we reward them, and how our systems and data support our growth. You’ll support our approach to workforce planning and succession management, ensuring we have the right skills and capabilities in place for the future.

And with your own team of specialists, you’ll help bring structure, insight and innovation to talent, reward and systems across JoJo.

A Peek Into Your Daily Adventures

• Supporting talent attraction, workforce planning and succession activity that support JoJo’s growth.
• Working closely with managers to ensure our skills and capabilities meet future business needs.
• Supporting the implementation and roll out of our new HRIS, ensuring processes, data and reporting are accurate, efficient and ready for future phases.
• Supporting the development of reward and benefits frameworks, ensuring fairness, consistency and alignment to market practice.
• Working with the Head of People on the annual pay review, reward benchmarking and benefits optimisation.
• Overseeing day to day recruitment activity through our Talent and Reward Partner, ensuring a fair, consistent and engaging candidate experience.
• Bringing our employer brand to life and supporting inclusive recruitment and internal progression.
• Overseeing people systems and data, ensuring accuracy, compliance and meaningful reporting.
• Supporting digital transformation by ensuring our people systems are efficient, integrated and future ready.
• Ensuring our people policies are up to date, legally compliant and aligned to business needs.
• Working closely with our Systems and Data Partner to maintain compliance, GDPR adherence and People Analytics.
• Overseeing facilities management, ensuring our workplaces are safe, welcoming and fully compliant.
• Collaborating with Risk and Compliance and our PBP – Experience, Relations and OD to support safe and inclusive workspaces.
• Partnering with L&D to support internal mobility, leadership development and identifying skills gaps.
• Leading and developing your team to deliver high-quality work across talent, reward, systems and facilities.
• Contributing to wider people transformation projects that support our long-term People strategy.

Skills That Make You Shine

• Proven experience in HR role at a similar level ideally with a focus on talent management, reward and people systems.
• Experience of compensation and benefits frameworks, talent attraction and workforce planning.
• Experience in HR systems oversight, data analysis and reporting.
• Experience supporting the design and implementation of structured pay and progression frameworks.
• Understanding of employment law, GDPR and people policy management.
• Comfortable influencing managers and senior stakeholders to shape and support decision making.
• Ability to work independently and confidence to make informed, people focused decisions.
• Adaptable and resilient in a changing, agile environment.
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills to create confidence and grow great leadership.
• Team management experience, with a focus on people development and training.
• Ability to engage our people to create change.
• CIPD Level 5 or above (or equivalent experience) is a bonus.
• The ability to travel as you’ll be part of our people team who are also based in our Newport Collaborative Space.

Just to give you a taste of our culture, we’ll be looking for you to:

• Be a brand ambassador, safeguarding our values and ethos.
• Demonstrate honesty and respect in every interaction.
• Foster collaboration and open, active listening
• Take ownership of all aspects of the role.
• Be an effective problem solver.

Perks And Benefits

• Hybrid working - up to 3 days in our JoJo House (our JoJo House is located in Battersea, 5 min walking distance from Battersea Power Station and 2 min from Battersea Park Station)
• Flexible start and finish time - office core hours are between 10:00 and 16:30
• Extra day of annual leave for each year you’re with us, up to 38 days.
• Is it your birthday? Take it off and celebrate!
• Want to increase your holiday allowance? Holiday buying scheme.
• Let’s celebrate JoJo doing well – non-contractual bonus scheme.
• Helping plan for the future - enhanced pension scheme.
• Get on the move - cycle to work scheme.
• Financial wellbeing app - pay yourself 40% of your earned wages whenever you want.
• Saving scheme with Smart Money Cymru – You do not need to live in Wales!
• Enhanced family leave.
• Flexible work options.
• Enjoy fabulous social events.
• Saying thank you – employee recognition programme.
• Give back with volunteer days to support our communities.
• Prioritise your well‑being with our Health and Wellbeing hub.
• Specsavers voucher – Get a free sight test and contribution towards glasses (T & C’s) apply.
• We love our products! Get 40% off JoJo branded lines.
• Embrace an “It’s up to you” learning environment with ongoing training and development opportunities.
• Your furry friend doesn’t have to stay at home – our offices are dog friendly for friendly pooches.

Want to know more about JoJo?

We make happy and helpful clothes and products that let children be children – in all their silly, messy, adventurous, noisy, imaginative joy. But we’re not just about selling products; we’re about creating a warm, community‑centric environment for our employees and our customers. From over 50 locations across the UK and Ireland and a thriving e-commerce platform, we offer a meticulously designed collection of children’s clothing, toys, and essentials designed with love and care: always with children at the forefront of our minds.

As a B Corp, our commitment goes beyond commerce, we strive for a sustainable future and take pride in our responsibilities to the planet and our communities. At JoJo, every role, every task and every day is an opportunity to support, inspire and contribute to the well‑being of our teams and our customers.

We embrace and openly welcome people from different cultures, perspectives, and experiences to create a diverse and enriched environment. We work hard to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people, regardless of background to make sure we grow our company sustainably and with different cultural influences. By encouraging a diverse and inclusive workforce, we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and reach their full potential.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

• Human Resources
• Human Resources Services