About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty
Founded by British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has revolutionised the face of the global beauty industry by de-coding makeup applications for everyone, everywhere, with an easy-to-use, easy-to-choose, easy-to-gift range. Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty continues to break records across countries, channels, and categories and to scale at pace.

Over the last 10 years, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has experienced exceptional growth and is one of the most talked about brands in the beauty industry and beyond. It has become a global sensation across 50 markets (and growing), with over 2,300 employees globally who are part of the Dream Team making the magic happen.

Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is a truly global business, delivering market-leading growth, innovative retail and product launches fuelled by industry-leading tech — all with an internal culture of embracing challenges, disruptive thinking, winning together, and sharing the magic. The energy behind the bran­d is infectious, and as we grow, we are always looking for extraordinary talent who want to be part of this our success and help drive our limitless ambitions.

About the role
As Head of People Partnering, Retail UK & EMEA, you will be delivering a ‘best in class service’ for Charlotte Tilbury’s UK & EMEA Retail business. You will manage all aspects of HR practice for a wide scope of business units partnering with SLT members, helping them unlock commercial and creative success through their people.

You will act as an internal consultant, change agent and a strong leader, ensuring best practice through commercial partnerships. You will be a champion of our values in all we do and will drive an obsession and relentless focus on engagement, talent management and strategic planning. Working closely with the Centres of Excellence and wider People Global Leadership team, you will design, propose, and deliver initiatives, practices and processes that ensure we have an engaged and high performing workforce. You will protect our colleagues by ensuring that we comply with all aspects of UK and EMEA employment legislation.

With a focus on engagement, wellbeing, and development you will ensure we are able to attract, retain and develop the right people to support our People strategy to be the number one magical employer of choice for the world’s best talent where everyone feels empowered and are developed to be the best versions of themselves.

As a Head of People Partnering, Retail UK & EMEA you will

• Support the People Partner Director in setting strategic direction for the brand globally with alignment for all markets in UK & EMEA.
• Workforce and Headcount Planning, based on needs of the business, organisation design evolvement, headcount and capability growth whilst also balancing affordability throughout the fiscal year.
• To coach, mentor and influence leaders to make the best decisions about their people.
• Employee Relations – timely management with good HR practice and commerciality, acting as internal consultant to the team for complex cases and crisis management.
• Work closely with the People Operations team to manage Retail annual salary review process ensuring thorough benchmarking is conducted to understand Charlotte Tilbury’s position in the Market.
• Provide consultancy and recommendations on Dashboard Data Reporting of Retail People Metrics, advising of performance against key KPIs.
• Liaise closely with Talent Acquisition and LD&I to oversee and strengthen holistic Talent Management through the full employee life cycle across UK & EMEA retail.
• Mentor and coach the People Partners to have People Plans in place for all business areas which will look to attract, engage, grow, and retain, helping leadership and management capability within their business areas.
• Ensure UK & EMEA policies and procedures are updated in accordance with legislation changes and employees are informed of any changes. Remain constantly aware of changes in legislation and ensure Charlotte Tilbury is compliant and applying best practice to all employee matters across UK and EMEA and working closely with the internal teams.

Reporting Responsibilities

• The Head of People Partnering, Retail UK & EMEA, will report into the People Partner Director UK & EMEA and have three People Partner direct reports. The role will be overseeing a retail team of circa. 2000 across EMEA & UK.

Current Regional Remit

• United Kingdom
• Ireland
• France
• Italy
• Spain
• Netherlands
• Austria
• Germany
• Sweden
• Turkey
• Switzerland
• Belgium

About you

• Extensive experience in a People leadership role within the retail/consumer sector across EMEA & UK
• Strategic thinker and proven fast paced results driver
• Results driven, unlocks limitless opportunities and responsibly forecasts
• Creative dreamer and analytical insight miner
• Cutting-edge innovator with “don’t reinvent the wheel” mindset
• Consumer focused. Thinks globally and translates locally
• Data and intuition driven
• An exceptional communicator, collaborator and influencer who lands on the salient point, has a confident recommendation, and can drive decisions
• An inspiring leader with an eye for talent and developing and elevating people in their immediate team and beyond
• Culture Fit – Will be smart, confident, succinct, ambitious, high energy, self-starting, intellectually agile, results-oriented, resilient non-political, transparent, collaborative, curious and hands-on
• Will embody Charlotte Tilbury’s culture and be passionate about helping it achieve its goals

Charlotte Tilbury is a fast-paced and dynamic environment where nimble mindsets, striving to deliver the best and wanting to be part of a global #dreaamteam are key. Even though we have requirements, our experience and background are just a guide, we still love to welcome applicants with more or less experience stated, provided necessary skills can be demonstrated.

Why join us?

• Be a part of this values driven, high growth, magical journey with an ultimate vision to empower everyone, everywhere to be the best version of themselves
• We’re a hybrid model with flexibility, allowing you to work how best suits you
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with an additional day to celebrate your birthday
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey
• Financial security and planning with our pension and life assurance for all
• Wellness and social benefits including Medicash, Employee Assist Programs and regular social connects with colleagues
• Bring your furry friend to work with you on our allocated dog friendly days and spaces
• And not to forget our generous product discount and gifting!

At Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, our mission is to empower everybody in the world to be the most beautiful version of themselves. We celebrate and support this by encouraging and hiring people with diverse backgrounds, cultures, voices, beliefs, and perspectives into our growing global workforce. By doing so, we better serve our communities, customers, employees - and the candidates that take part in our recruitment process.

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