Contract: Permanent
Location: Field-Based, North-East Region (covers geographical area from Scottish Borders to East Midlands)
Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker
What you'll be doing
As a People Partner at Boots UK, you will act as a trusted advisor to our Directors of Stores and Area Managers, curating the regional people plan to enable exceptional performance and customer outcomes. You'll translate business priorities into long term people solutions, building leadership capability and ensuring the region is future ready.
Driving on strategic insight, you will influence business decisions, promote organisational transformation, and help position Boots as an employer of choice. Reporting into Senior People Partner, you will:
Key responsibilities
Business Partnering
- Partner with senior leaders to shape and deliver a forward looking people plan that enables the achievement of commercial and customer goals.
- Act as a strategic advisor, challenging and influencing leadership thinking on people decisions, capability, and culture.
- Translate business insights into actionable people priorities that build long term organisational effectiveness.
- Collaborate across the HR function to support the design of initiatives and deploy innovative, data led people solutions that enhance performance, engagement, and retention.
- Use workforce data and external insights to inform workforce planning.
Leadership & Talent Strategy
- Shape and lead the regional talent and succession plan
- Partner with senior leaders to identify critical roles and implement targeted development interventions that accelerate readiness.
- Champion a culture of performance, accountability, and continuous learning across the region.
- Coach and influence leaders to strengthen their people leadership effectiveness.
Organisational Effectiveness & Change Leadership
- Lead regional change programmes, ensuring alignment with the wider business transformation agenda.
- Drive cultural and organisational effectiveness by feeding into the development of roles and capabilities to meet future business needs.
- Coach leaders through change to ensure engagement, alignment, and sustainable performance outcomes.
- Work with Head of People to assess the people impact of strategic initiatives and develop mitigation and engagement plans.
Employee Experience & Culture
- Embed our Colleague Promise that reflects Boots' values and enhances engagement and retention.
- Be a cultural ambassador, driving inclusion, wellbeing, and purpose-led leadership.
- Use colleague insight and data to influence decisions and shape the regional people agenda.
What you'll need to have (our must-haves)
- Significant experience in a HR Business Partner or strategic people role within a large, complex, or multi-site organisation.
- Connecting people strategy to business outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience in organisational design, strategic workforce planning, and cultural transformation.
- Exceptional influencing and stakeholder management skills with credibility at senior leadership level.
- Expertise across core HR disciplines with a focus on leadership development, talent management, and change.
- Analytical and insight-driven approach, able to interpret complex data and translate it into strategic action.
- Proven ability to lead through ambiguity shaping people strategies that drive future capability and performance.
Rewards designed for you
- Boots Retirement Savings Plan
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Generous employee discounts
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
- Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
- Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.
There's lots more in our benefits and discounts, MyBoosts - there to give you that little lift in your everyday. Find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply; eligible roles only.
About The Boots Group
The Boots Group is a trusted leader in healthcare, pharmacy and retail, operating across 11 countries - including the UK, Ireland, Thailand and Mexico. The Boots Group brands - including Boots, Boots Opticians, No7 Beauty Company, Farmacias Benavides and Alliance Healthcare - are trusted and well recognised healthcare and beauty businesses, serving millions of customers and patients every day in communities around the world. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all.
What's next
If you apply, our team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application or to arrange next steps. Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.
Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.
We hope to hear from you soon.
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