HR Business Partner

Are you passionate about people and leadership? Join Specsavers as our new HR Business Partner and help create workplaces where employees thrive At Specsavers, we're dedicated to making eye and hearing care accessible to all. As pioneers and a global leader in innovative technologies, we help people optimise their vision and hearing. We foster your expertise, welcome you into a supportive family, and propel your growth. Grounded in our collaboration, curiosity, courage, and compassion values, we strive to challenge the status quo and invite you to team up with us.Your role Employees and their well-being are at the heart of Specsavers. As an HR Business Partner, you’ll be the first point of contact for managers and Store Partners on all People matters. You’ll drive HR initiatives that support organizational objectives across stores and the support office, ensuring compliance, engagement, and a great employee experience.Your responsibilities will include:Support to Stores (approx. 50%):Deliver HR onboarding for Store Partners, ensuring they understand their responsibilities as employers and people leaders.Provide training and guidance on HR-related topics, employment law, and cultural expectations.Support Partners and RRMs in performance management, organizational change, and conflict resolution.Drive engagement initiatives, including GPTW survey follow-up and action planning.Champion Specsavers’ values and culture, focusing on wellbeing, diversity, and inclusion.Provide tools and guidance for health & safety compliance and legal obligations.Handle union negotiations together with the Head of P&O.Support to Support Office (approx. 50%):Partner with managers to enhance leadership capabilities and team performance.Ensure best practice in HR processes across the employee life cycle: recruitment, onboarding, compensation, engagement, and offboarding.Support workforce planning, talent development, succession planning, and retention initiatives.Drive training programs and development activities, including workshops and leadership forums.Ensure compliance with employment laws and accurate people data management.Lead and participate in local and regional HR projects.Manage company car leasing agreements for employees, ensuring compliance with policies and smooth administration.Your new team We're a highly skilled and collaborative team with an ambition to take Specsavers' employee experience to the next level. As HR BP you´ll be a third of our small HR team, working closely with our other HR Business Partner and our Head of P&O Sweden. We like to get involved, learn from each other, and have fun together even though our roles are quite independent. You´ll also collaborate with many other colleagues at the support office and in the stores.What are we looking for? We are looking for someone who has the following qualifications:Bachelor’s degree in HR or similar and at least 3 years of experience in an HR Business Partner role or equivalent experience as a manager in the retail industry.Good expertise in labour law, negotiation experience and broad experience of manager support and employee matters.Used to independently run projects and different areas of responsibility.Fluency in both Swedish and English.Preferably experience from retail.As a person, we believe that you are:Solution-oriented and service-minded, and good at creating and maintaining good relationships and good collaboration so that together we reach our goals.Communicative, empathetic and a good listener, while knowing what questions to ask to challenge and create constructive dialogues and develop our managers, partners and the organization.Comfortable with creating and presenting, as well as used to adapting your way of communicating based on the target group.Responsible, self-driven and taking initiatives to develop and improve our processes and working methods.Committed, structured, and can see what needs to be prioritized in a fast-paced everyday life.What awaits you upon joining Specsavers At Specsavers, you'll get more than just a job. You will join us on a journey to make eye health services easily accessible to everyone.We offer you an exciting and challenging everyday life and career in a company with success and ambitions. You will also be part of a workplace with a strong, unique family culture and a community that extends beyond a single department.Joining us, you’ll:Become a member of our regional team of friendly, talented, and passionate colleagues.Enjoy a compensation and benefits package matching your qualifications, including eye care vouchers, a subscription to Headspace, and much more. We are of course covered by a collective agreement as well.Grow/develop in your role with our free access to plenty of online learning offers, frequent one-to-one discussions with your manager, a Personal Development Plan that aligns with your talent and ambitions, and lots of responsibility!Great coffee, lots of laughs, social gatherings and celebrations, exciting Christmas parties, and moreIs this your next step? Then apply today To apply, please send us your CV using the button below. We want to respect your time, so including an application letter is optional. Feel free to apply as soon as possible.Please avoid including any photos or references to your age in your CV. It contributes to a fairer and more unbiased assessment.We review CV’s and call in for interviews continuously and in standard, our recruitment process consists of a screening, 2-rounds of interviews including a personality assessment feedback.If you're interested in learning more about the incredible team you'll be joining and our shared goals as a family business, visit our pages: This is who we are, and This is what we do.About Specsavers It's 1984, on the small Channel Island of Guernsey, when the optometrist couple Doug and Mary Perkins lay the foundation of their new optical company. They revolutionised the market by offering affordable glasses to everyone.Read more about SpecsaversRead about our valuesSpecsavers is one of the best workplacesAwards are worth a thousand words – so we're incredibly proud that our Swedish office in Gothenburg has been awarded the number 7 best workplace in Sweden!Read moreDiversity & Inclusion at Specsavers Specsavers will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected factor.In line with our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, we integrate these principles into all aspects of our work, from product development to team building.