Head of HR Partnering
About us
At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience—from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment.
About the role
This is a rare chance to take on a highly strategic role at the centre of Halfords’ transformation journey. As Head of HR Partnering, you’ll be a trusted advisor to our most senior leaders, from the Operating Board to Divisional Directors, influencing decisions at the highest level and shaping the future of our business with bold, forward-thinking people strategies.
You’ll act as the bridge into our Centres of Excellence, bringing together the right expertise to tackle complex challenges and unlock new opportunities. More than a partner, you’ll be a custodian of culture, coaching leaders, championing performance, and ensuring our people are empowered to deliver their very best.
The impact you make will be tangible: building capability, driving efficiency, and enabling our people to deliver the outcomes that matter most, for our customers, our colleagues, and our shareholders.
Key responsibilities
Lead the design and execution of division-specific, future-focused people plans that align with business strategy and drive measurable impact for customers, colleagues, and shareholders.
Identify workforce opportunities, leverage people data and business metrics, and turn insights into outcomes-driven initiatives that enhance productivity, capability, and capacity.
Manage, coach, and hold a team of Business Partners accountable, enabling them to deliver strategic people solutions while fostering an inclusive, engaged, and high-performing culture.
Act as a custodian of culture and a change agent, embedding ways of working and behaviours that enhance engagement and deliver sustainable organisational change.
Provide expert coaching, challenge, and guidance to senior leaders, supporting them to have difficult conversations, make strategic decisions, and strengthen leadership capability.
Serve as the conduit between the business and Centres of Expertise, ensuring HR solutions are joined-up, strategic, and aligned to business outcomes.
Lead talent interventions, succession planning, and organisation design to close capability gaps, strengthen critical skills, and ensure the business is fit for the future.
Provide direction and alignment through periods of change and ambiguity, connecting people strategy to business goals and ensuring clear accountability and outcomes.
About you
A track record in a senior HR role, leading a team of HRBPs in fast-paced, complex, commercial organisations.
Demonstrable experience using people levers to deliver measurable business outcomes.
Skilled in creating and executing people plans and leading cross-functional teams to deliver results.
Experienced in leading significant organisational and HR transformation initiatives, achieving sustained outcomes.
Exceptional at building trusted partnerships with senior leaders and stakeholders, acting as a credible and strategic advisor.
Confident in interrogating and interpreting data to generate actionable insights that shape business and people strategies.
Experienced in agile ways of working, adapting quickly to complexity and change while maintaining focus on business outcomes.
CIPD Level 7 (or equivalent), with experience leading programmes of work; formal project or programme management qualifications and/or change management experience highly desirable.
Reward & benefits
A fair and competitive salary evaluated against market data, car allowance, annual discretionary bonus scheme, pension, life assurance, 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave.
Commitment and dedication to your ongoing personal and professional development. We help you to own and grow your potential so you can be at your best in your current role and to support your future career aspirations.
We offer hybrid working where you will split your time between our Support Centre, in the field and working from home. 3 days a week will be in our Support Centre in Redditch or field based.
You will have access to a wealth of employee discounts across the Halfords suite of products and services.
Wellbeing and inclusion are at the heart of our colleague experience. We offer resources and ongoing support to enhance your wellbeing at work and active Colleague Networks supporting inclusion initiatives across Halfords.
Not sure you meet all the criteria? We'd encourage you to take the wheel and apply anyway! At Halfords we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for our colleagues. We're an equal opportunities employer and proud to welcome applications from all backgrounds and embrace diversity within our one Halfords Family.
