Competitive salary with an excellent bonus plan

We offer two bonuses (personal performance paid quarterly and company performance paid annually) with private healthcare and dental cover and a generous pension scheme.

For over three decades our purpose hasn’t changed: we are here to make a positive difference to the lives of all. Through the exceptional products, services and value we offer, we are proud of how far we’ve come as a business, now we want to see you grow with us.

This is a hybrid role split between home-based & our Whiteley office.

Your purpose

Due to an internal promotion, we have an exciting opportunity for an HR Business Partner to join the team. As the HR Business Partner, you will act as the change agent, supporting the delivery of strategic and operational people plan ambitions across the Technology function. You will support the Senior HRBPs and HR Leadership team in driving a high-performance culture and proactively bringing the HR strategy “to be the best place to work.” to life.

Your role

• Supporting business areas to build sustainable resource plans to enable business growth and support succession and retention plans
• Contribute towards the identification of the people agenda and priorities to improve business performance and meet key people challenges
• Support Senior HRBPs on organisational change, design, and structure
• Provide HR support on relevant initiatives, building strong relationships with key stakeholders, connecting with and utilising Centres of Expertise (CofE) and other diverse groups and forums where appropriate
• To collate and share data and management information through storytelling and visual means to provide insight into performance and trends
• Support business leaders to improve employee engagement and retention of performing talent through the development and implementation of action plans in response to the results of people engagement surveys. Contribute to sharing and learning from best practice and ideas across HR colleagues to drive a consistent approach

What you’ll bring

• You will be an experienced HR generalist or advisor with excellent communication and facilitation skills and can inspire and drive engagement
• Excellent stakeholder management with the ability to build rapport and trust across a diverse team
• Demonstrate curiosity and growth mindset with the ability to question and challenge others to get to the root of people and business issues
• Analytical and problem-solving ability with experience to draw upon when resilience is needed
• Creative thinker and can work with pace and intensity

Happy to talk about flexible working!

Our people ambition is to be the place we are all proud to belong. We want all our colleagues to feel listened to, included, valued, and motivated. To help start us on this journey networks and communities are being established by our colleagues across Specsavers so far, we have PRISM which represents our LGBTQ+ community, MenoTalk to help support and drive our menopause in the workplace agenda, Empowered Together, our women’s network that is in place to rally for women’s equality in and out of work, EmbRACE to provide a voice for minority ethnic colleagues and our Neurodiversity Network (NDN) to help remove any barriers preventing neurodiverse colleagues from reaching their full potential.

If this role is of interest we’d recommend applying as soon as possible. This role is usually very popular, and we may have to close the role early if we receive a high number of applications to ensure we can still offer the best candidate experience.