Senior HR Business Partner - 6 Month FTC in London

Function: People

Location: London, LND, GB

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Contract: FTC – 6 Months

Reports to: Senior HR Director, UK & Ireland

Scope: HR Business Partnering

ABOUT THE WELLA COMPANY

Together, WE enable individuals to look, feel, and be their true selves. Wella Company is one of the world’s leading beauty companies, comprised of a family of iconic brands such as Wella Professionals, Clairol, OPI, Nioxin and ghd. With 6,000 employees globally, presence in over 100 countries, Wella Company and its brands enable consumers to look, feel, and be their true selves. As innovators in the hair and nail industry, Wella Company empowers its people to delight consumers, inspire beauty professionals, engage communities, and deliver sustainable growth to its stakeholders.

ROLE

We are looking for a maternity cover for our Senior HRBP position. The Senior HRBP is a critical role both within the People Function but also within the UK & Ireland business overall. As a Senior People Partner, together with your Functional Lead Team Partner, you will help to enable the business to achieve the accelerated growth ambitions of Wella UK&I & deliver on the strategic People Agenda. Reporting to the Senior Director HR, this role is the most senior role after the Director within the UK&I People team. You will also be part of the global People Partners Community and interface directly with both the UK&I Leadership Team and the Wella People Leadership Team on respective projects.

In addition to providing end to end generalist support to full business, the Senior People Partner will also work closely with the Wella Talent Acquisition team ensuring hiring of vacancies and a smooth onboarding of all new employees including managing regular onboarding days. The successful incumbent will be involved in all areas of the employee lifecycle experience and will help deliver our learning and development agenda (e.g. development initiatives that come out of the annual engagement survey), as well as provide insights and reporting on HR analytics and also ensure compliance with budgetary and fixed-costs management working closely with finance. The person will be responsible for continuing to develop a best-in-class HR function, delivering HR business partnership and HR operational excellence to the business.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Overall end to end responsibility for all HR generalist matters – 200+ employees.
• As trusted partner to the leadership team & senior managers, proactively contributing to drive business performance through employee engagement on behalf of the LT, owning the engagement action plan and regular visibility on HR tracking & KPIs.
• Engage with functions to build effective working relationships.
• Responsible for ER & policy related matters within the functions that are supported.
• As a senior HR leader proactively contribute to the HR strategy in support of delivery of the business plan.
• Act as coach, trusted advisor, and business partner to our people managers and more broadly to senior managers across the business.
• Champion Wella UK&I culture, Diversity & Inclusion - embedding a Growth Mindset, from action to results orientation.
• Support organization evolution working with senior leaders to implement needed reorganization programs & workforce planning.
• Supporting talent management (talent planning, retention, succession, etc.) and recruiting (talent attraction, recruiting, etc.) across the UK, manage / influence key partners – Wella Global Talent team.
• Implementation of policies and programs governing Compensation & Benefits, Labour relations, HR Policy & Legal Compliance.
• Accountable for fixed cost management in collaboration with finance and any ad-hoc budget such as for organizational development and transformation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS

As a seasoned Senior HRBP generalist, the successful candidate will operate as a true Business Partner to the wider Wella People Manager population and UK&I Leadership Team. Therefore, they will be well acquainted and comfortable operating in a transformational, growth-oriented environment preferably in a fast-paced global context and understand how to get things done & drive results in this setting. Their communication and influencing skills will be well developed and they will have the ability to build strong internal relationships across both, the business and HR. They have experience of having had an active, important role in leading a healthy business through change and growth.

More specifically, the background will include:

• A highly regarded and effective HR professional with experience in talent management.
• Experience of managing employee relations situations and knowledge of UK Labour Law.
• Has sincere interest in understanding the key drivers of the business and acts as a true Business Partner.
• A strong HR generalist background including payroll with a strong business acumen and commercial leaning.
• Professional track record of working in dynamic, customer-oriented and performance driven business environments.
• Strong in Excel, HR analytics and HR reporting.
• Ability and interest to think and develop strategically but also work hands-on on an operational level.
• Ability to raise the bar and drive/implement best-in-class HR practices and tools, making Wella UK&I a great place to work.
• Capability to connect, interact understand and influence a wide variety of stakeholder’s different stakeholders.
• Results orientation, delivering reliably.

EEO OPPORTUNITIES

The Wella Company wants to meet the aims and commitments set out in its equality policy. This includes not discriminating under the Equality Act 2010 and building an accurate picture of the make-up of the workforce in encouraging equality and diversity. We offer equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals without regard to race, religion or belief, colour, national origin, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Wella Company with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at: strongly believe that cultivating a diverse workplace gives a company strength. The combination of unique skills, abilities, experiences, and backgrounds creates an environment that produces extraordinary results.