The Role

The Strategic People & Culture Business Partner for the Central Eastern Europe Cluster within Imperial Brands acts as an internal consultant and member of the key markets’ Leadership Teams. With a deep understanding of their business area they will provide expert advice and challenge in order to align the needs of the business and the delivery of the Market & Cluster people priorities and plan.

Working with Cluster People & Culture Director, the role will be responsible for managing, cascading and monitoring all Global processes as well as guiding and coaching Senior Leaders in areas such as performance, talent management and succession planning.

The Strategic People & Culture Business Partner will role model our values, behaviours and  Leadership framework and will play a key role in the implementation of the People and Culture mission and strategy.  The role is based in Prague and will be part of the Market leadership Team.

Principle Accountabilities

• Influences business strategy providing highly relevant insight into workforce and culture and translates the business strategy into People Strategies
• Builds strong relationships with the COEs and People Services to leverage their expertise and support to help implement the people strategies and plans.
• Leads Strategic Workforce Planning/Shaping for the Czech Market, leveraging workforce analytics and insights, and promotes data led decision making including oversight of IME population
• Drives Connected Performance, Talent and Succession Planning, including coaching Senior Leaders in creating a performance culture and provides Leadership, facilitates change and identifies opportunities to unlock business value
• Supports function/cluster specific organisational effectiveness, change management and organisational design / restructuring leveraging the CoEs as appropriate
• Manages employee bodies e.g. Unions, Works Councils etc information and consultation requirements and acts as the escalation point on Employee Relations issues and is responsible for local strategic policy
• Ensures compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and takes informed risks and/or mitigates people and business risks where necessary to support delivery of strategic initiatives

Skills and Experience Required

• Experience in translating business strategy into people strategy and building relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders across P&C and within functions/cluster
• Strategic workforce planning experience and the ability to analyse and interpret data for insight and storytelling to inform data led decision making
• Coaching of senior managers to enable a high performance culture
• Strong Leadership, Communication and Change Management skills with sound professional judgement and understanding of key P&C processes
• Experience working in and navigating a global matrix organisation
• Understanding commercial and financials for function and wider business

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and many extras including a great pension scheme, generous holiday entitlement and hybrid/flexible working opportunities as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all. Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference. Strategic HR Business Partner – Central Eastern Europe