Here at Mamas & Papas, Our Purpose is to inspire and support parents in becoming the best parents they can be: confident, capable and loving life with their little ones. As a global multi-channel Group, and UK’s biggest brand in baby & nursery products, and Uks largest specialist baby/nursery retailer, to deliver on Our Purpure, we have over 1,000 incredible colleagues across our Head Office, Warehouse, Distribution, Stores and International teams.
Through a real growth spurt in recent years and another one coming, we are looking to recruit a forward thinking HR/People Business Partner to come and join our People Team, in delivering on Our Purpose through our incredible colleagues across our nationwide Retail Division of the business. (c65 stores and concessions with over 700 retail colleagues within)
The role of Retail People Business Partner (Nationwide)
As a Retail People Business Partner, you will partner with Regional Managers and retail leadership teams to build high-performing, engaged and customer-focused teams across our store and concession network.
Working at the heart of the business, you will translate our people strategy into practical actions that improve commercial performance, colleague engagement, retention, capability and customer experience. You will challenge, coach and support leaders to make great people decisions, ensuring the right talent, culture and leadership capability are in place to deliver business goals.
This is a highly visible role and, while operating within a predominately hybrid model of 3 days in the office, 2 out, will balance time accordingly between the field nationally and Republic of Ireland, supporting stores across the regions, and working alongside the wide HR team in Huddersfield HQ.
Key areas within being:
1. Strategic Business Partnering.
2. Talent, Performance & Capability.
3. Colleague Engagement & Culture.
4. Employee Relations.
5. Talent Acquisition support and Talent Pipelines.
What Success Looks Like:
- Strong retail leadership teams capable of delivering commercial objectives.
- Improved retail colleague engagement, retention and internal progression.
- Reduced people risk and effective resolution of employee relations issues across our Retail division.
- Robust succession plans for key retail roles.
- High-quality recruitment and onboarding experiences.
- Positive movement in people and commercial performance measures.
To Apply
For someone in a generalist HR or People role, looking to make an impact, build upon our solid HR foundations across our Retail Division, this will truly be an exciting next chapter for you and us, at a very exciting time in our own continued growth plans and ambitions to raise the bar and make a difference, so take those amazing first steps and apply today.
Thank you.
