People & Culture Lead (12 month FTC)

The purpose of the role is to provide strategic partnering to our Leadership Group with a focus on developing and delivering the Cultural, Performance and Talent health within their Division and/or Function.

This role can be based in Burton or Bury St Edmunds 

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.  

We’re all about rewarding our team’s hard work, that’s why…

You’ll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career. 
• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
• Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels. – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
• Refer a friend – who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could earn £1,500 for referring them!
• Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens.
• Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…

Your role as People and Culture Lead 

• Understands the divisional and/or functional strategy and identifies opportunities to increase alignment with the business strategy by helping leaders identify, prioritise and build organisational capabilities, behaviours, structures and processes.
• Accountable for building relationships with the Leadership Group to offer coaching and thought leadership on organisational and people-related strategy and execution enabling, to improve divisional and/or functional performance.
• Inputs into, challenges and influences People Plans across the Group, division and/or function to ensure they enable the delivery of the divisional and/or functional strategy and commercial plan, including processes to support continual improvement.
• Diagnose gaps between current and desired organisation performance and work with the People function to deploy actions to resolve gaps, including organisation redesign, process change, coaching and training.
• Analyse workforce trends to model and forecast future labor requirements to support senior leaders in workforce planning and succession management, including a detailed capacity understanding of the assigned division and/or function to ensure delivery of financial targets and establishment.
• Responsible for ensuring development plans are in place, reviewed and developed for top talent within the function and/or division to ensure performance delivery and creations of talent pipelines.
• Champions our Culture and plays a key role in influencing both wider People team and Leadership Group to ensure strategic opportunities are identified and that key activities and initiatives are in place to bring our desired Culture to life.

What you’ll bring… 

• Strong partnership skills and the ability to influence aligned divisional or functional leader
• Effective team player and networker
• Strong interpersonal, communication and customer service skills
• Ability to interpret data and make recommendations