People Partner | Retail

Reiss Ltd.; City of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fashion retailer is seeking a Retail People Partner to support stakeholders in delivering the People Plan and elevating employee experience. The ideal candidate will be CIPD qualified, with strong communication and problem-solving skills. Responsibilities include coaching leaders, managing people operations, and improving policies. This role offers competitive salary and benefits including a substantial employee discount and wellness services.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Company bonus

Up to 65% employee discount

Aviva DigiCare+ wellbeing services

Medicash health support plan

Workplace pension contributions

Enhanced parental leave policies

Electric Vehicle scheme

Cycle to Work programme

Season ticket travel loan

Qualifications

• Experience in a Head Office or Retail environment.
• Ability to prioritize a demanding workload.
• Works with transparency and trust.
• Natural intuition for balanced decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to support the delivery of the People Plan.
• Ensure operational excellence in cyclical people tasks.
• Coaching People leaders to enable their success.
• Contribute to key projects for improving employee experience.

Skills

CIPD qualified

Proficient in Microsoft programs

Exceptional communication

Team collaboration

Change management

Problem-solving

Organizational skills

Tools

HRIS systems

Job description

What’s the role about?

As our Retail People Partner, you’ll be a trusted partner to a wide range of stakeholders responsible for helping drive the Global People Plan, aligned with Reiss’ purpose and vision which supports our continued growth and success as a brand.

You’ll be a key contributor in ensuring Reiss is a great place to work; supporting our Retail leaders in driving performance, retention, recognition & reward, progression and development, through creating a truly engaging workplace where employees feel included, trusted and valued.

Working alongside our Talent, Learning & Development, Retail and US People teams, you will demonstrate exceptional communication and team collaboration. You’ll execute the Reiss People Plan for your areas of responsibility, coaching and influencing leaders to drive a high-performance culture at Reiss. Naturally curious and intuitive with relentless ambition, you’ll work with the People team to continue to elevate the employee experience at Reiss, inspiring your stakeholders and their teams to deliver excellence with a ‘continuous improvement’ mindset.

Who you are

• An ambitious People Partner with experience in a Head Office or Retail environment.
• A real change-maker and action‑driver, comfortable with driving continuous improvements with stakeholders.
• Able to prioritise a demanding workload and pivot between strategic team project deliverables and ‘roll your sleeves up’ basics.
• A confident problem solver; able to influence stakeholders with natural intuition for balanced decision‑making, commerciality and risk mitigation.
• Works with transparency and trust.
• Builds, develops, inspires and contributes to high performing teams – a true role model.
• Highly organised with an eye for detail, energised by working at pace.
• CIPD qualified and proficient in using Microsoft programs and HRIS systems.

What you’ll be doing

• Partner with a wide range of stakeholders to support in the delivery of our People Plan and advising on a broad range of ER queries.
• Be in the detail of your business area, providing regular reporting and keeping a continuous pulse on all people activities. This would include; leaver trends, recruitment activity, people development, ER issues, department objectives and current challenges.
• Ensure operational excellence of all cyclical people tasks, such as annual leave administration, Pay Review, Progression Grids upkeep and our Performance Review process.
• Review our policy library regularly, ensuring our policies and processes are fit for purpose and right for Reiss and stay ahead of our legal responsibilities.
• Contribute to and lead key projects to support our People Plan, with the aim of continuously improving the employee experience.
• Contribute to the delivery of our Key Activity Planner to help drive employee engagement activity and support in shaping our employee communications, including cultural celebrations.
• Coaching our People leaders and working with our Learning & Development team to create, deliver and evaluate training materials and tools to enable the success of our People leaders.

What we’ll do for you

• Competitive salary and company bonus.
• Up to 65% employee discount.
• Access to exclusive sample sales.
• Aviva DigiCare+ wellbeing services.
• Medicash health support plan.
• Workplace pension contributions.
• Enhanced parental leave policies.
• Electric Vehicle scheme via Octopus Energy.
• Cycle to Work programme.
• Season ticket travel loan.
• Plus further workplace benefits.

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#WeAreReiss

We recognise the importance and power of diversity within our business and, as such, we ensure that our people processes are fair, transparent and promote equality of opportunity for all candidates.

It is our pledge that candidates will not be discriminated against on the grounds of gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, marital status, age, race, colour, ethnic background, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion, religious or similar belief. Every individual will be treated with respect.

We know that some people won’t apply for a role unless they feel they meet all of the requirements listed. We want you to know that finding people who will add to our inspirational culture and have a learning mindset is incredibly important to us. Even if you feel you don’t tick all the boxes, we’d still like to hear from you.