Purpose of the Role
The Retail Human Resources Business Partner provides point-of-sale business leadership with strategic guidance to ensure a high-touch employee experience that is fully aligned with Affiliate goals and objectives. This role leads a comprehensive and collaborative approach to Retail organizational effectiveness through maximizing talent, assessing and anticipating all people-related needs. He/she works across all HR disciplines (e.g., employee relations and engagement, talent, compensation, benefits, etc.), leveraging local, Regional and Corporate partnerships to identify opportunities and proactively provide solutions, enhancing all points along the employee journey attraction, development, reward, and retention. The position has a strong understanding of the retail and beauty industries, as well as the local marketplace; is familiar with point-of-sale operations; business metrics and (key performance indicators) KPIs; deep awareness of ELC Brands; and also stays abreast of human resources trends and best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Acts as Human Resources Generalist for store population.
- Develops and executes action plan to achieve local business goals and objectives.
- Leads the talent planning process in partnership with local leadership and guides talent development.
- Coaches and educates the business on developing their teams and handling employee relations.
- Uses and analyzes data to make business cases for needs with local and Regional leadership (i.e., input to be used for budgeting, recommendations based on exit survey, etc.)
- Partners with Talent Acquisition on developing local approach for attracting top retail talent.
- Assists with talent selection for key positions.
- Maintains a pulse on employee engagement through frequent in-store visits and ongoing dialogue with employees via regular focus groups.
- Interprets and evolves policy and processes to support a fair, positive and productive work environment.
- Partners closely with Affiliate and Regional Retail Human Resources Directors, Global Retail Capability, and the Global Retail HR Community on an ongoing basis
- Acts as an agent of change and steward of culture in all transformational initiatives.
- Serves as employee advocate and ensures the voice of the employee is considered in all decisions.
- Acts as Human Resources Generalist for store population.
- Develops and executes action plan to achieve local business goals and objectives.
- Leads the talent planning process in partnership with local leadership and guides talent development.
- Coaches and educates the business on developing their teams and handling employee relations.
- Uses and analyzes data to make business cases for needs with local and Regional leadership (i.e., input to be used for budgeting, recommendations based on exit survey, etc.)
- Partners with Talent Acquisition on developing local approach for attracting top retail talent.
- Assists with talent selection for key positions.
- Maintains a pulse on employee engagement through frequent in-store visits and ongoing dialogue with employees via regular focus groups.
- Interprets and evolves policy and processes to support a fair, positive and productive work environment.
Primary Location Europe, Middle East, Africa-ZA-GP-Johannesburg
Job Type Standard
Schedule Full-time
Shift 1st (Day) Shift
Job Number 237837
