Overview of the role
Reporting into the Senior People Partner for Wholesale & Central, you'll own the delivery of the Wholesale People Plan within your depots. You will be influential in driving all people and organisation-related programmes and initiatives in the business function, including but not limited to, organisational design, performance and talent management, succession planning, and change management.
This is a field-based role covering East Kilbride, Durham, Leeds and Redditch with occasional visits to the site in Dublin. Frequency of site visits will be discussed at interview.
The role is hybrid working with 3 days in the office or on-site visits, and 2 days working from home.
Main Responsibility
- Working in partnership with the Wholesale People Partner team as well as in close collaboration with your stakeholders and management teams to ensure delivery of the people plan within your area.
- Review people KPIs for your area, translating data into commercial focused recommendations and influencing change to meet the functional needs of your area.
- Manage essential and effective relationships with SME's across the People team and Support Centre functions (ER, People Development, Resourcing) to ensuring delivery commercially sound professional advice to your business areas.
- Develop strong partnering relationships with the key stakeholders to diagnose, develop and implement effective people strategies which support the functional goals and drive sustained performance.
- Collaborate with senior managers to assess learning and development needs, work with People Development to develop strategies to address them effectively.
- Provide advice and guidance on action plans to support retention and development of high potential individuals.
- Develop robust succession plans with actions clearly identified and planned for.
- Work closely with the Resourcing Advisor and team to ensure all vacancies are filled as efficiently as possible.
- Take ownership of relevant project work and day-to-day operational needs, utilising your expertise and experience to deliver effective outcomes.
- Support the ER with complex case management across your area.
- Actively seek opportunities for continuous improvement and proactively designs pragmatic solutions.
- Actively champion & land transformational change, ensuring successful implementation & delivery of business benefits.
- Build and maintain excellent professional HR insight and takes steps to capitalise on opportunities.
Key knowledge and skills required for the role:
- CIPD qualified (level 5 minimum)
- Experience of working within a HRBP/people partner/HR advisor role in a fast paced environment (warehousing/distribution environment is desirable)
- Previous experience of dealing with matters such as organisation design, HR projects, change management and complex ER cases
- Strong knowledge of employment law and associated best practices
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal with confidence to liaise with management at all levels of the business
- Experience of coaching and advising line managers
- Strong experience of working in partnership with leaders and colleagues to drive results
Problem solving & change
- Provides honest opinions and feedback
- Expert in engaging teams in order to deliver change
- Implements workable solutions for current business issues
- Short to medium term planning: ability to make tactical decisions on the spot and refers others to their line manager
- Able to make sound judgement calls that balance employment law and business need
- Comfortable working independently and making sound decisions at pace
The Ideal Candidate
Well are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.
Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.
Package Description
- Competitive salaries
- Car allowance
- Excellent training & development opportunities
- Paid Holidays
- Workplace pension scheme
- Staff Discount
- Travel Loans and more…..
About the Company
For over 70 years, we’ve been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy is the third largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.
Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.
The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.
We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.
We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.
‘Together we make a difference’
