Associate People Business Partner

Why Superdrug

Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.

We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.

Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.

What you’ll need to succeed

 The primary purpose of the role is to work with the Regional People Business Partner in delivering the People strategy across Healthcare and Beauty Service Team. They will support the development of regional people strategy and take ownership to deliver key aspects of the strategy. The primary focuses will relate to talent management, raising leadership capability, driving the colleague engagement agenda and supporting the successful implementation of key people related projects.

The Associate Business Partner will primarily do this by partnering with Pharmacy Managers, Beauty Studio Managers and Regional Healthcare Managers across regions to lead, engage and develop their people through coaching, best practice sharing and implementing best practice people processes. They will also work with the centralised specialist functions on specific projects to support the broader retail people strategy.

A typical day in this role includes:

Support the People Business Partner to deliver the regional people strategy
To work with our Pharmacy and Beauty Studio Management and central Talent team to review and improve recruitment and selection processes ensuring we recruit the best talent
To play an active role in supporting the successful launch of new beauty studios and healthcare clinics across the estate
Support the Business Partner in delivering the talent & succession activity across the region, drive actions for the development of high potential colleagues to support internal succession and career progression
To champion initiatives that drive and reinforce engagement and recognition, utilising the available data and harnessing the appropriate communication channels.
Support the delivery of learning interventions and cascading key business information e.g. leadership training and attending operational meetings
To input and support the delivery of training to upskill our teams
To Input into and support the delivery of people related projects as required
To support the central Employee Relations team with complex case management

This job is a good fit for you if:

You are professional, friendly and down to earth. Your customers and team feel welcome, comfortable and are at ease with you.
You are comfortable in an extremely fast paced environment, enjoy the buzz of retail and continually juggling priorities across a generalist agenda
You like to travel and work in different locations and are happy staying away from home
You are innovative and have a curious mindset that allows you to seek out opportunities to enhance ways of working that add value by providing the best possible service to our customers
You inspire people to put people at the forefront of their agenda and inspire your colleagues to develop and challenge themselves.
You are motivated by achieving results through people and understand the benefits of doing things right.
You are an excellent communicator and can foster effective working relationships with your team, internal and external stakeholders and customers in order to deliver results.
You work with a strong moral compass and work with passion, honesty and integrity.


What you’ll need:

You have a HR generalist background, gained by working in a fast paced and commercial environment, and ideally within a field-based role.
Have high levels of digital literacy and experience with in working with HR information systems
Be comfortable with interpreting data, drawing out insights and turning them into meaningful actions
You will have working knowledge of developing and delivering people processes in a multi- site environment
Your leadership experience will have equipped you to effectively partner key stakeholders to deliver the people agenda across a large population and geographical area

We will assess your performance by your ability to be:

Customer Focused - An obsession to exceed customer and colleague expectations

Results Driven
- A passion to achieve results with a clear focus

Anticipate and Innovate - Using data and insights to build plans and make effective decisions
Collaboration - Enables a collaborative environment that inspires trust and builds effective innovative processes in changing times
Problem Solving - Solving problems and making decisions in fast changing conditions

Here’s what’s in it for you

• Benefits 
• Working in a stylish, modern and collaborative office right by East Croydon station
• On-site beauty treatments, table tennis and café with a fantastic selection of hot and cold food every day
• Health and beauty giveaways from suppliers

Come and be part of something special.