Burberry Director, HRBP

This critical Director, HRBP role acts as a strategic partner to the Chief Operations Officer and their leadership team, while partnering effectively across the Product Triangle, including the Chief Merchandising Officer and Chief Creative Officer. The role connects the people agenda across the Product Triangle and a broad population encompassing Corporate Strategy, Data & Analytics, Design, Merchandising and the end‑to‑end Supply Chain.

Spanning upstream manufacturing and production operations, integrated planning and merchandising functions, and downstream distribution, fulfilment and customer delivery teams, the role will shape and deliver a cohesive people strategy that enables business performance, organisational effectiveness and sustainable growth. As the senior HR leader for these functions, the role is accountable for defining and delivering the people strategy, translating business priorities into clear people outcomes, and ensuring leaders are equipped, empowered and held accountable for creating high-performing, inclusive and engaged teams.

This is a highly influential leadership role requiring strong commercial acumen, global HR expertise and deep experience of talent, leadership and organisational development within the luxury sector or a complex, matrixed global organisation. Due to the nature and seniority of the role, regular in-person presence is required, with an expectation of five days per week in the office.

• Consult and engage with the Chiefs and their leadership teams to build a high-performance culture, embed inclusive leadership and ensure Burberry remains a destination for world-class talent. Promote the engagement and visibility of all leaders across the functions.
• Understand Burberry Forward and specific challenges across Operations, Design & Merchandising to translate business needs into actionable HR plans and projects.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the Chiefs and their leadership teams, coaching and challenging leaders to role model Burberry's values, strengthen leadership effectiveness and create high-performing, accountable and inclusive teams.

• Use business insights to own the execution of applicable talent strategies to attract, retain and develop exceptional talent globally, with a focus on promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Partner closely with relevant CoE leads to embed the Burberry talent philosophy across the functions. Lead robust talent and succession reviews, ensuring leaders identify, develop and retain critical talent, address capability gaps and take accountability for building diverse succession pipelines.
• Drive excellence in performance and talent management, holding leaders accountable for effective goal setting, performance differentiation, calibration, development planning and timely interventions to improve performance and capability.

• Deploy external insight and organisational awareness to own organisational design, restructures, workforce planning, change management initiatives, and culture development, seeking to continuously refine the structures to ensure they are fit for purpose in an ever-changing external environment.
• Partner with leaders to lead organisational change effectively, ensuring clear communication, meaningful engagement and visible leadership throughout change programmes. Hold leaders accountable for delivering change outcomes while maintaining employee engagement, wellbeing and performance.
• Embrace Burberry Forward as the "north star" to connect individual purpose to Burberry's strategic goals, fostering a culture of belonging and alignment to Burberry's values.

• Ensure leaders…