D&i Business Partner - Reading, United Kingdom - Primark

Primark

Verified Company

Reading, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

D&I Business Partner:
Projects and Insights
Our D&I teams are right at the heart of what we do.

Surrounded by some of the best D&I specialists in the industry, you'll bring your own ideas to the business - helping to shape the experience of our customers as part of a forward-thinking team.

You will lead key inclusion projects for Primark and create and drive meaningful insight led plans that support the delivery of our Diversity and Inclusion strategy.

As our business grows and expands into new markets, we aim to ensure all colleagues and customers feel welcome and included in Primark.

This role is a fantastic opportunity to help further develop our work on D&I and ensure this function is an integral part of the wider Primark business.

What You'll Get
The world is changing and it's important we support our colleagues.

People are at the heart of what we do at Primark so it's essential we provide the right environment for you to perform at your best.

That's why we offer benefits that put you first.

Some of our benefits are:

27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more.
Flexible Working, opportunity for an early Friday finish, and a subsidised cafeteria.

Primark Perks

Discounts with some local partner business to our offices

What You'll Do:

In your role, you'll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets.

Here's a flavour of your day-to-day:

You will work closely with the Head of D&I, other D&I BPs, the D&I Steering Committee, our D&I colleague networks, and key stakeholders across the wider business, you will support delivery of our D&I strategy, cocreating and implementing programmes and initiatives across our 16 markets in line with our wider people and business strategies.
You will be responsible for the project management of several key campaigns throughout the year, working with multiple stakeholders, ensuring delivery at pace whilst identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
You will have specific areas of focus, including people data and insight, whilst contributing significantly to delivery of the overall strategy. You will contribute to the evolution of our D&I strategy and overall People priorities by working closely with the Engagement and Insights teams to provide meaningful, colleague and customer led insights, supported by external research and thought leadership.
In this role you will have a high level of relationship management, acting as a connection point between our global D&I strategy and our unpartnered markets on some of our key campaigns and projects: working closely with the inmarket comms and P&C teams.

What You'll Bring
Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued - so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:

You will bring experience in designing and implementing D&I projects and initiatives within a global organisation; Ideally you will have experience working within a Retail organisation / with a distributed & primarily hourly workforce preferred.
You have a genuine passion for diversity, equity and inclusion, and a humancentric approach.
You will bring effective communications skills, both written and verbal
You have great insight relating to impactful D&I best practice, and knowledge of current trends, relevant legislation and cultural sensitivities relating to the markets we operate in
You have effective stakeholder, project, and change management skills, able to take plans from concept and design through to execution and measurement.
You bring leadership and coaching skills, with the ability to influence and facilitate new ways of thinking about inclusion.

If you need any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request, during your recruitment journey, such as extended time or breaks between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, mobility access, or assistive technology please contact your talent acquisition specialist.

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