Role overview

As a HR Business Partner, you will act as a strategic and tactical partner to the business, ensuring the alignment of the people strategy with the overall business objectives. You will be instrumental in fostering a positive and engaging work environment through employee engagement initiatives and effective workforce planning. Your role involves collaborating closely with Divisional Directors and Regional Managers to enhance leadership capabilities, drive performance, and support change management efforts. By leveraging data and insights, you will develop people-based solutions that address business challenges, promote diversity and inclusion, and ensure compliance with policies and regulations. Ultimately, your contributions will enhance employee satisfaction, retention, and productivity, positioning the company as an employer of choice and a great place to work.

This role will be a Maternity Cover until Jan 2026.

Main Responsibilities:

Develop and deliver the HR divisional plan to align the wider HR strategy and people priorities with the commercial strategy.
Ensure HR policies and procedures are consistently applied across all retail locations.
Manage and resolve tier 3 employee relations issues, ensuring compliance with company policies and relevant employment laws.
Regularly analyse business and people metrics to drive people activity and influence decision-making.
Collaborate with divisional directors and regional managers to assess staffing needs and ensure optimal workforce levels during peak and off-peak seasons.
Work with the reward team to ensure competitive pay and benefits packages for all employees are offered, and compliance with the company pay policy.
Analyse turnover rates and develop strategies to improve employee retention within retail stores, focussing on our retail attrition rate and optometrist headcount.
Provide coaching and partnership to managers across stores and the support centre.
Implement employee engagement programs tailored to retail staff, focusing on motivation, recognition, and retention to increase our overall eNPS scores. Partner with Talent Acquisition to develop innovative recruitment strategies to attract top talent.
Collaborate with the leadership team on talent and succession discussions, strategically mapping future talent pipelines.
Work with the global HR function as necessary to facilitate inter-banner talent moves, and participation of global initiatives

Who are we?

We are Vision Express - with over 550 stores across the UK and Ireland, we have something for everyone. Whether you want to work in a busy city centre flagship, a smaller village store or in one of our coastal locations, we're sure we will have the perfect solution for you!

Did you know, we are also part of the EssilorLuxottica family? EssilorLuxottica is the global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of lenses, frames and sunglasses! We are home to the most loved and widely-recognised vision care and eyewear brands in the world. Their priority eyewear brands include Ray-Ban, Oakley, Costa, Vogue Eyewear, Persol and Oliver Peoples, complemented by over 20 prestigious licensed brands.

Anything else you should know?

Pension scheme
Free eyewear annually with eligibility from day one of joining us!
Free parking for all Vision Express colleagues
Opportunities to get involved in the OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation
Discounts for friends and family
Employee Assistant Program offering confidential support and advice on everything from financial support to emotional support and everything in-between
33 days annual leave - increasing with your length of service, plus the opportunity to buy or sell holiday
Flexible health related benefits, such as; Health Cash plan, Additional Life cover, Critical Illness cover and Dental Plan
Opportunities to join a company wide community with peer to peer knowledge, sharing and collaborating through our internal channels
Flexible lifestyle benefits, such as; Gymflex, Dining Cards, Discounted Travel Insurance, Experience Days, and even discounted bicycles through our Cycle to Work Scheme
And so much more!

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Store Support Centre, Ruddington, Nottingham

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Permanent

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Human Resources

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