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Starbucks EMEA

HR business partner

On site

London, United kingdom

Full Time

05-10-2025

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Leadership Change Management Training Coaching

Job Specifications

We're looking for a HR business partner to join our team here at Starbucks UK. A place where you're valued, challenged, and inspired. Where your voice is brewed into everything we do. At Starbucks, we're all about you.

As part of this role, you'll be responsible for supporting c140 stores across our south region. You'll operate as a strategic business partner to the retail business, partnering with our regional operations manager and their district management team, to develop and deliver HR services, including driving capability, improving business performance through coaching and developing our retail leadership teams.

We'll look to you to bring your previous experience in a HR business partner role or similar, ideally in a fast paced and dynamic environment. You'll have previously driven organisational development and change management efforts, supporting implementations and adoption of new initiatives. You'll be CIPD qualified and have experience of coaching and guiding field leadership teams, delivering training programs and taking complex concepts and conveying them to all levels of the business. We're looking for someone who is customer focused, with a pro-active, positive, action-orientated and 'can-do' attitude. We'd love to learn more about your experience in reviewing existing practices, processes and procedures and how you look to continuously improve and develop and implement best practice HR initiatives.

The Best Part About This Role Is That No Two Days Are Ever The Same! Working As Our HR Business Partner, You'll Get Involved In:

Collaborating with our central HR teams to effectively manage succession and key talent planning, supporting our partners to create meaningful developmental opportunities, and lead succession planning and mid/end of year calibration for your region
Leading diversity and inclusion initiatives, acting as an ambassador for partner networks
Providing HR training and support to your region, enabling them to handle first line management of basic partner issues and any identified performance concerns
Coaching and guiding the region on ER processes and compliance matters. Actively managing any complex ER matters and ET claims and sharing of best practices across the regions in line with our company tools, practices and policies
Acting as change agent in managing organisational change, including activities such as restructures, compulsory redundancies and severance scheme
Collaborating with our talent acquisition team and opportunity hiring partners to effectively execute our growth agenda, developing and implementing regional talent acquisition strategies
Coaching and mentoring field teams to drive engagement, capability and performance. Identifying and recommending training and development needs, implementing appropriate programmes and managing the delivery
Partnering with key stakeholders to identify the root cause of performance issues across your region (including high turnover and labour overspending), identifying trends and supporting the creation and implementation of action plans to improve business performance and drive partner engagement
Being accountable for delivering key HR KPIs including employee turnover, apprenticeships, training completion, key talent programme success rates.
Leading and championing continuous improvement programs, and act as a change agent.
Communicating all relevant/new employment laws and regulations, making sure there is compliance, and minimising the risk to our partners, customers and business.

We're looking for a HR business partner to join our team here at Starbucks UK. A place where you're valued, challenged, and inspired. Where your voice is brewed into everything we do. At Starbucks, we're all about you.

As part of this role, you'll be responsible for supporting c140 stores across our south region. You'll operate as a strategic business partner to the retail business, partnering with our regional operations manager and their district management team, to develop and deliver HR services, including driving capability, improving business performance through coaching and developing our retail leadership teams.

We'll look to you to bring your previous experience in a HR business partner role or similar, ideally in a fast paced and dynamic environment. You'll have previously driven organisational development and change management efforts, supporting implementations and adoption of new initiatives. You'll be CIPD qualified and have experience of coaching and guiding field leadership teams, delivering training programs and taking complex concepts and conveying them to all levels of the business. We're looking for someone who is customer focused, with a pro-active, positive, action-orientated and 'can-do' attitude. We'd love to learn more about your experience in reviewing existing practices, processes and procedures and how you look to continuously improve and develop and implement best practice HR initiatives.

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About the Company

By bringing people together over coffee, Starbucks has become one of the world's best-known and best loved companies. Working at Starbucks is a lot like working with your friends! When you work here, you're not an "employee" - we call ourselves "partners" because we believe in shared common goals and mutual success. Our partners are our most valuable resource. Our story began in 1971. Back then we were a roaster and retailer of whole bean and ground coffee, tea and spices with a single store in Seattle's Pike Place Market. T... Know more