Senior HR Business Partner

Senior People Partner – Retail (Remote-First)

Remote First | Travel to London as Required
Up to £90,000 + Benefits
️ Partnering with a Leading UK Retail Giant

Are you a commercially savvy HR leader ready to shape the future of frontline retail?

We’re working with a major UK retail powerhouse undergoing exciting transformation and investment across their store estate. This is a unique opportunity to join as a Senior People Partner, supporting a large-scale, customer-facing workforce during a pivotal time of innovation and cultural change.

About the Role

Reporting directly into the Head of Stores, you will act as the strategic HR business partner for the UK retail estate. You’ll collaborate with senior leadership and centres of expertise to design and deliver people strategies that elevate performance, engagement, talent, and inclusivity across a national store network.

This is a remote-first role with travel to London and across the UK to support business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement people strategies that support store operations, business transformation, and organisational performance

• Partner with store leadership teams to drive engagement, capability, succession planning, and performance culture

• Provide coaching and advisory support to senior leaders – influencing at both strategic and operational levels

• Embed change management best practices across transformation programmes and new ways of working

• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion – embedding these values through leadership behaviours and functional initiatives

• Work cross-functionally with HR CoEs (Talent, Reward, L&D, ER) to ensure aligned delivery and innovation across the people agenda

• Use people data and insights to inform decision making, drive action, and monitor outcomes

• Serve as a key voice of the retail workforce within the wider people strategy and transformation journey

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience as a Senior HR Business Partner or People Partner within a large, complex, matrix organisation

• Strong commercial acumen – understands business drivers, operational performance, and retail challenges

• Expert at influencing and coaching senior leaders

• Demonstrated success leading large-scale organisational and cultural change

• Broad knowledge across all HR functions: OD, Reward, ER, Talent, Inclusion, and L&D

• Highly data-literate with the ability to translate insights into impactful people plans

• Experience within a customer-centric, fast-paced sector (retail, hospitality, consumer, etc.)

Why Apply?

• Shape people strategy across a nationally recognised, customer-first retail business

• Be part of a forward-thinking People team delivering change at scale

• Influence transformation from the top, driving real organisational and cultural evolution

• Join a business where values, inclusion and innovation sit at the heart of everything they do

Ready to make your impact in retail transformation?
Apply now or get in touch for a confidential discussion.

InterQuest Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. InterQuest Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, religion/belief, race, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, sex or sexual orientation. Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.