The Role

Bristol or London/Hybrid Working pattern (2 days in office)

We have an exciting opportunity for two experienced strategic HR professional to join our People & Culture team at Imperial Brands.

As a Strategic HR Business Partner, you will be an influential and pivotal member of our P&C Community. You will work closely with either our People & Culture (HR), Corporate Strategy and Corporate Affairs & Legal teams (Bristol) or our Global Consumer Office (London) you will help to define, develop, and execute the People and Culture agenda and plan. You will act as an internal consultant and use business knowledge and understanding of a similar business sector, to enable you to provide expert advice and challenge in order to align the needs of the business and the delivery of the Functions people priorities and plan whilst also ensuring the operational delivery and implementation of our P&C Operating Models.

We’re home to around 25,000 talented people worldwide and one of the special things about working at Imperial is that our people are leading the positive changes we are making, this is a really great opportunity to work closely with the Head of People & Culture to provide strategic HR leadership and expertise to drive our business forward.  

Principle Accountabilities

• Works in partnership our People & Culture (HR), Corporate Strategy and Corporate Affairs & Legal teams (Bristol) or our Global Consumer Office (London) along with business leaders across Function/Region/Cluster to drive strategic objectives and enhance business performance.
• Influences business strategy providing highly relevant insight into workforce and culture and translates the business strategy into People Strategies engaging with P&C CoE where appropriate, whilst building strong relationships with the COEs and People Services to leverage their expertise and support to help implement the people strategies and plans.
• Provide Leadership, facilitates change and identifies opportunities to unlock business value as well as Acts as member of relevant leadership teams.
• Supports the roll out of Global CoE policies and frameworks e.g. Talent & Succession Management, Connected Performance , Organisation Effectiveness, Organisational Health reviews etc.
• Works with senior leaders to support the roll out and embedding of strategic initiatives.
• Working with the Head of People & Culture, the role will be responsible for managing, cascading and monitoring all Global processes as well as guiding and coaching Senior Leaders.

Skills and Experience Required

• Evidence of providing strategic P&C partnering to a similar team within a comparable working environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, quickly building rapport and trust across all stakeholder level across P&C and within functions/cluster.
• Ability to translate business strategy into people strategy along with excellent influencing skills to enable you to deliver through others to support the implementation of people strategy.
• Strong Leadership, Communication and Change Management skills along with experience Strategic workforce planning.
• Ability to coach and influence senior managers to enable a high performance culture.
• Evidence of working in a global matrix organisation and understanding of business complexities
• Ability to analyse and interpret data for insight and storytelling to inform data led decision making.
• Have excellent communication skills with fluency in English, both written and verbal.

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 resourcing@uk.imptob.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.