People Advisor

We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas to life. Guided by our purpose Better Homes. Better Lives. For Everyone. We believe a better world starts with better homes, and we work every day to make that a reality. Join us and help shape the future of home improvement.

Support the People Director in partnering with the People, Corporate Affairs, Responsible Business and Finance functions (c.300 colleagues), helping to shape and deliver a high-impact people agenda. Drive the execution of people plans aligned to strategic business priorities, while coaching, challenging and supporting leaders to build high-performing, inclusive teams. Champion best practice across talent and succession planning, learning and development, engagement and recognition, and organisational design. Provide proactive, hands-on support across the employee lifecycle, ensuring a seamless and high-quality people experience.

• Support the People Director to drive the people and culture agenda
• Key focuses include Talent planning and review cycle, engagement drivers and embedding best practise HR basics
• Partner and coach leaders in using the tools and processes available to recruit, retain and develop their teams and create a high performing and inclusive culture based on trust
• Support leaders to deliver people and ways of working change effectively, including initiatives to improve business performance and organisational change
• Using trends, metrics & KPIs, continuously scan the function to identify and engage stakeholders in opportunities for improvement including optimising structure and organisational design
• Work with leaders and their teams to identify future talent and coach leaders on strategies for nurturing talent, clarify career paths, manage colleague aspirations and clear succession planning
• Champion a culture of listening, sharing learning and inclusion so that colleagues can heard and perform at their best
• Providing operational support to the People Director across the functions (e.g. recruitment activity, talent planning, mid and year-end calibration cycles, Peakon activity etc.)
• Partnering with the TA (recruitment) team, Capability (learning and development) and Rewards team to ensure collaborative and seamless ways of working

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a degree of ambiguity
• Experience of “getting things done” in a large and complex organisation
• Proactively in engaging with stakeholders and ability to adapt messages to the audience and meet business needs
• Self-starter with a "can do" attitude
• Demonstrates curiosity and brings in different ways of thinking
• Ready to roll sleeves up and get stuck in at all levels, including some operational and administrative tasks as well as projects and task forces
• Excellent stakeholder management/influence and the ability to easily engage and challenge colleagues at all levels particularly people managers
• Intellectually and commercially astute with the ability to build credible, high-trust relationships quickly at all levels of the organisation.
• Coaching style; experience in supporting leaders to self-serve and find solutions and apply sound judgement
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to share a message to varying audiences and communicate clearly and concisely.
• Ability to manage and coordinate changing priorities and adapt accordingly, taking a pragmatic approach
• Understand “what good looks like” for the key HR pillars of Talent, Learning and Development, Employee Relations and People Engagement
• Understanding of and ability to establish strong foundational basics across the Employee Lifecycle

How We Work
We believe in flexibility and balance. Our hybrid model blends home working for focus with time spent connecting and collaborating - whether in our offices or at offsite locations. On average, around 60% of your time will involve in-person collaboration.

We value the perspectives new team members bring and encourage you to apply - even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements.

What We Offer
An inclusive environment where your potential is limited only by your imagination. We encourage new ideas, support experimentation, and strive to create a workplace where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career. Scroll down below to find out more about our benefits.

Diversity & Inclusion
Our customers come from all walks of life - and so do we. We’re committed to ensuring all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants are treated equally, regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, ethnicity, culture, religion, belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

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