Junior People Partner (12 month fixed term contract)

What’s the role about?

As our Retail Junior People Partner, you will be responsible for providing generalist people support to the retail team, working with a wide range of stakeholders and supporting with the delivery of the People Plan.

This role will be reporting into our People Partner and would work collaboratively with the wider People Team to ensure we deliver ‘best in class’ operational excellence in our People processes and practices. As a trusted partner, this role is crucial to the evolution and elevation of our employee experience; unearthing opportunities and driving improvements across all lifecycle stages.

This role is a 12 month fixed term contract.

Who you are

• Previous HR Advisor and Employee Relations experience, within a fashion or retail environment is preferable.
• Experience applying HR policies and procedures.
• CIPD qualification is desirable, but not essential.
• Strong organisation skills and a continuous improvement mindset
• A curious and credible nature with an eye for detail
• Confident, adaptable, and proactive in your approach
• A real ‘doer’ with the energy and drive to make an impact
• Excellent communication and listening skills
• Strong IT skills-Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

What you’ll be doing

• Act as the initial point of contact with Area, Store and Concession Managers within your assigned geographies regarding all People queries.
• Partnering with stakeholders, managing your own ER cases of varying complexity, including formal meetings, investigations and disciplinaries.
• Upskilling our managers, improving their skills and confidence to manage low risk ER issues.
• Developing policies and procedures.
• Supporting the effective management of lifecycle operational processes such as new starters, changes and leavers.
• Supporting the People Partner with management of Retail reward and benefits.
• Supporting the delivery and review of cyclical people processes such as our engagement survey and annual pay review.
• Ensuring Reiss is compliant with all UK and European employment law and proactively seek updates.

What we’ll do for you

• Provide you with a competitive salary.
• Company pension.
• Generous employee discount.
• Company bonus scheme.
• Health & Wellbeing perks.
• Plus more.

If you want to start your story at Reiss as our Junior People Partner, don’t miss out - apply now!

#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.