HR Business Partner

Childrensalon is a global luxury childrenswear retailer with a heritage spanning more than 70 years. We combine the service and care of a boutique business with the reach of a world-leading e-commerce operation, serving customers in more than 170 countries.

This role partners with leaders across Finance, Distribution, Facilities and Business Technology, helping to shape and deliver the people agenda across several critical business functions.

As part of a small and collaborative HR team, this role combines both hands-on operational HR and strategic business partnering. You will influence workforce planning, succession, talent and organisational effectiveness initiatives, whilst also remaining close to the day-to-day realities of the business, supporting leaders and colleagues through change, growth and continuous improvement.

We are looking for someone who enjoys operating at both a practical and strategic level. Someone who is comfortable rolling their sleeves up when needed, identifying opportunities for improvement and helping turn ideas into action.

Strategic Business Partnering

• Partner with leaders across Finance, Distribution, Facilities and Business Technology to deliver people plans aligned to business priorities.

• Provide commercial advice on workforce planning, organisational effectiveness and leadership capability.

• Use people insights and data to identify risks, opportunities and improvement areas.

• Support organisational change and business transformation initiatives.

Workforce Planning, Talent & Engagement

• Lead workforce and succession planning activities across supported functions.

• Support the development of leadership capability and future talent pipelines.

• Drive performance, engagement and retention initiatives.

• Partner leaders to build high-performing teams and a positive employee experience.

Employee Relations & Risk Management

• Lead and support complex employee relations matters.

• Coach managers to make effective and legally compliant people decisions.

• Identify and mitigate people risks.

Operational HR Support

As a small HR team, we also all play an active part in the day-to-day HR activity for all areas of the business, including:

• Recruitment and onboarding.

• Employee lifecycle administration and HR systems management.

• Workforce reporting and people insights.

• Offboarding and organisational change activity.

• Continuous improvement of HR processes and ways of working.

Who we're looking for...

Essential

• Previous experience operating as an HR Business Partner or in a similar partnering role.

• Strong employee relations capability with experience managing complex cases.

• Experience coaching and influencing senior managers and leaders.

• Workforce planning and organisational effectiveness experience.

• Talent management and succession planning experience.

• Strong knowledge of UK employment law.

• Commercial judgement and pragmatic decision-making.

• Ability to balance strategic partnering with operational delivery.

• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.

Desirable

• Retail, e-commerce, logistics or distribution experience.

• Experience supporting operational workforces.

• Experience supporting technology or business services functions.

• Experience working within a changing or transforming organisation.

• CIPD qualification (Level 5 or above) or equivalent experience.

• Experience of HR systems.

This role is ideal for an experienced HR professional who enjoys variety, values strong stakeholder relationships and wants to make a visible impact.

If you're looking for a position that combines organisational effectiveness, workforce planning, talent management and leadership partnering with meaningful involvement in operational HR delivery, we'd love to hear from you.

If you're interested, please contact jake.woodgate@childrensalon.com for the Full Candidate Pack or a confidential conversation!