People Partner (International)

Reference: 12764
Location: Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Closing Date: 08/01/2026

The Role

To develop and deliver partnering strategies to unlock the potential of the business by enabling our Superdry family to be at their best. Leading the people approach for our European territories (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands & Spain), with a key focus on employee relations including works councils.

The role requires an individual ready to face into a challenge. Gritty, confident in decision making and adaptable with strong communication skills. The ability to have a strong personal impact, think bigger picture and make sense of complex issues is essential whilst building strong stakeholder relationships.

You Will

• Work to execute the people element of the turnaround plan. Working closely with senior stakeholders to plan, implement and support the SLG members to deliver change successfully.
• Work to commercially understand your customer area functionalities, strategic deliverables and key challenges.
• Develop a strong relationship with our Works Councils, consulting with them on employment matters
• Utilise your expert knowledge to support compliance with employment law and balanced, commercial employee relations decision making across the European employing territories
• Drive your own work agenda, working to translate business area priorities into clear people goals in line with the overall People Plan and wider People Strategy.
• Seize projects as learning opportunities to lead and project manage people activity with an end goal of high performance / high quality delivery.
• Work successfully partnering up to SLG members (and Exec members where necessary) and take ownership of these key stakeholder business relationships.
• Facilitate conversations with Managers to support the development of functional goals and priorities aligned to the business mission.
• Help Managers make decisions which are commercially focused but pragmatic.
• Have strong coaching capability; ensure managers think for themselves.
• Support the development and embedding of the Superdry Talent Framework alongside the new Company behaviours.
• Collaborate with the wider Resourcing and Talent Team on people initiatives as outlined in the People Plan.
• Support the delivery of training aligned to the People goals and business mission.
• Collaborate with the People Operations team to add value to the right conditions for success with an outcome for group functions of high quality processes to support our European employee lifecycle, credible data and strong communication.
• Keep abreast of changes in the law and how they impact and influence policies and procedures.
• Role model our Superdry behaviours of ‘Deliver with purpose’,’ Do what’s right’ and ‘Come as you are’

You Are

• Fluent in at least one of the following languages: German, French or Dutch
• Experienced in HR within European territories (Ideally covering Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands or Spain)
• Committed to your ongoing HR professional development, actively seeking both internal and external development.
• Ideally holding or currently undertaking a CIPD L5+ or equivalent qualification, although this is not essential.
• Able to champion HR initiatives with your customer groups and highlight risks and opportunities.
• Able to demonstrate influencing skills and challenge your key stakeholders.
• Keep abreast of legal changes and how these affect policies and procedures.
• Pick up the business as usual, answering queries and questions as arise from your customer groups.
• Able to work independently but ensuring you are keeping your line manager involved and informed about key decisions and impacts.

Working for Superdry has never been so rewarding…

• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, we also offer a holiday buying scheme
• An additional day off to celebrate your Birthday
• Family is massively important to us, so we have a broad range of family-friendly working policies in place, including enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Company Pension scheme
• All employees are covered by our Life Assurance policy whilst working at Superdry. We feel it’s important to offer protection for your family and loved ones in such a situation and to support this we offer life assurance cover which pays a lump sum equivalent either twice or four times your annual salary
• A big staff discount – naturally. Because we know that you love to wear Superdry, you’ll benefit from a 50% discount in store and online
• Our Head Office is home to our very own store for staff only where you can treat yourself to heavily discounted sample stock
• A health cash plan is open to all employees.
• Flexible working and core working hours between 10am – 4pm to help you achieve that all-important work-life balance
• Access to onsite parking and as part of our sustainable development goals, we have a selection of electrical car parking points freely available to staff.
• A range of learning and development materials to help you in your career and grow with us
• We like to give back, so we allow our employees time off for volunteering work
• A global employee assistance plan in place that you can access anytime you want - it’s free and confidential
• You’ll also have access to a Cycle To Work Scheme 
• A range of local discounts with businesses across Gloucestershire

At Superdry, everyone has a voice and we want to hear it. We create environments where individuality can flourish and is celebrated as part of who we are as a brand. We’re incredibly proud that over 90% of our people feel strongly that they can be themselves at work.

We want to meet people with varied backgrounds because we understand that diversity of thought encourages new ideas to thrive, fuelling creativity and enabling us to do better work. We want to build a team which represents a variety of backgrounds, styles, perspectives, and skills; we hire people based on their merit and potential.

We also welcome conversations about flexible working for all roles at Superdry and will always accommodate it where possible.

Please note that some jobs may be closed earlier than the published closing date if we get a high volume of applications. We therefore advise that you complete your application at your earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment.

Who we are

Superdry is a British, founder-led brand with a truly global presence. We’ve been proudly creating world-class product for almost two decades, offering genuine choice to our customers with our curated style collections. 

Our mission is to be the No. 1 sustainable style destination, delivering product that is authentic with unmatched quality and true integrity, much like our people. 

We are on an ambitious journey to serve our diverse community through a premium brand that’s focused on the future, prioritises sustainability, leads with craft, and celebrates culture. We need talented people to join us on the adventure, is this you?