Business Partner - Technology and Finance; Maternity Cover

People Business Partner
- Technology and Finance (Maternity Cover)

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- Technology and Finance (Maternity Cover) role at New Look

We’re the feel‑good fashion brand making style accessible and fun for over 55 years, on our website, mobile app and over 300 stores in the UK.

By living our values - we play to win, customer obsessed, we are one and it starts with me - we deliver That New Look Feeling for our customers and each other.

We are looking for an experienced People Business Partner to cover a maternity - looking after our Technology, Finance and Legal teams. Experience in Tech is a must for this role.

This role will need to come in to our London office twice a week

The People BP is a true strategic partner to multiple functional areas, with a true sense of purpose in delivering the vision for people at New Look. As a PBP, you’ll work closely alongside your customers, understanding their business area, and developing and delivering a people plan that supports their strategy, whilst also contributing to the delivery of the broader people plan at New Look.

Providing trusted partnership to your functional directors and heads of department, you’ll understand business performance measures and identify how you can strategically support, influence and drive this.

Your customer will look to you as the expert in thought leadership, coaching, and driving business performance through people. You’ll be instrumental in driving business change and ensuring your customers have an organisational structure fit for purpose. You’ll embed our talent agenda and deliver effective workforce planning to ensure our customers have the resource they need.

You will support the wider business vision by helping build and embed a culture of engaged and high performing teams, that places the people experience at the heart of what we do. Working closely alongside the Senior People Business Partner and a team of PBP’s, you’ll drive a high-performance culture, through delivery on key projects that not only move your business area forward, but that positively impact people on a macro level across the support centres.

• 40% staff discount plus friends & family discounts throughout the year
• Access to our reward platform for external discount and offers
• Profit related bonus scheme
• Option to join our Healthcare Private Medical Scheme
• Virtual GP access for you and your children – it allows you to speak to a doctor at a time and date that suits you
• All employees are covered by our life assurance policy from day one
• Unlock extra leave with our buy more holiday scheme.
• Celebrate YOU! Enjoy an extra paid day off on your birthday each year
• Spread the cost of your commute with interest‑free season ticket loans
• Do your bit for the environment and save money with our Cycle2
  
  Work scheme
• We're proud to partner with the Retail Trust and Fashion & Textile Children's Trust

Business Partner Functional Directors/Heads of

• You are a true strategic partner to your stakeholders, working hard to build great partnerships and always striving to add value
• You’re customer centric, and anticipate your customers immediate, short, and long‑term needs
• You’re a technical expert, with a strong depth of knowledge; able to confidently provide robust, trusted counsel to your stakeholders, but with the confidence to constructively challenge and influence them
• You engage your leadership teams on the importance of delivering the people strategy, and of adopting a people first mindset
• You’re commercially savvy, and you’ll take the time to understand your business areas roles and responsibilities, so you can best support them
• You’ll utilise data and reporting to discern insights and identify trends, which you’ll then incorporate into your people plan as appropriate. You’ll also utilise this to challenge and influence your business areas as appropriate

• You’ll help build and develop, diverse, high performing teams by delivering a robust and seamless talent process that identifies gaps, and supports development and succession planning, moving our talent through…