People Partner (12 Month FTC Maternity Cover)

Reference: 13155
Location: Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Closing Date: 12/08/2026

The Role

To shape and deliver people and talent strategies that unlock the potential of your business areas and support the turnaround of Superdry by enabling our people to be at their best. Leading the people approach with a key focus on upskilling our leadership population, evolving our approach to employee relations and leading and developing your own People Advisor or Junior People Advisor.

The role requires an individual ready to face into a challenge. Adaptable, self-motivated and confident in decision making, comfortable operating in a fast paced, high-change environment and building strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels and with very different styles. This isn’t a role for someone who wants a polished playbook; it’s for someone who wants genuine opportunity for impact, senior exposure and the chance to help build the future of an iconic brand.

You Will

• Shape and deliver the people and talent strategy for your business areas, translating business priorities into clear people goals in line with the people strategy.
• Work to execute the people element of the turnaround plan, partnering senior stakeholders to plan, implement and land change successfully.
• Lead and develop a People Advisor or Junior People Advisor, coaching them to grow their capability and deliver high quality advisory support.
• Evolve our approach to employee relations, overseeing complex casework and supporting your Advisor to lead day-to-day cases with balanced, commercial decision making.
• Play a key role in upskilling our leadership population, coaching managers to think for themselves and make decisions which are commercially focused but pragmatic.
• Help leaders understand their options, risks and opportunities on people decisions, bringing a clear recommendation while respecting that the decision sits with the business.
• Work closely with our Talent team across Resourcing and Development, collaborating on recruitment, talent planning, and development activity for your areas.
• Get under the skin of your business areas, understanding how they work, what they’re aiming for and the key challenges in their way.
• Take ownership of key stakeholder relationships, partnering up to Senior Channel Leadership members/Head Of level.
• Build the visibility and credibility of the People team, getting out into the business and building the relationships that mean leaders involve you early.
• Utilise your expert knowledge to support compliance with employment law, keeping abreast of legal changes and how they impact and influence policies and procedures.
• Seize projects as learning opportunities to lead and project manage people activity with an end goal of high performance and high-quality delivery.
• Collaborate with the People Operations team to deliver high quality processes, credible data and strong communication across the employee lifecycle.
• Role model our Superdry behaviours of ‘Deliver with purpose’, ‘Do what’s right’ and ‘Come as you are’.

You Are

• Experienced in HR Business Partnering or bringing substantial senior level HR advisory experience.
• Ideally holding a CIPD L5+ qualification, although this is not essential and equivalent experience counts just as much.
• Relaxed and personable in your approach, building trust with leaders informally rather than leading with process, and comfortable adapting to very different stakeholder styles.
• Comfortable giving challenge and holding your ground in robust conversations, at your best in a high challenge, high support team.
• Pragmatic in your application of employment law, able to weigh legal risk against commercial reality and offer balanced options.
• Adaptable and energised by change, comfortable leading it, creating and driving it, supporting others through it and experiencing it yourself.
• Happy to work across all areas of the People agenda, combining proactive project work with reactive business as usual queries.
• Talent and coaching focussed, with a passion for developing people and building capability in your team.
• Confident in decision making, able to make sense of complex issues and think bigger picture.
• Self-motivated and curious, focussed on building your knowledge and driving improvement.
• Committed to your ongoing professional development, actively seeking both internal and external development.
• Able to champion people initiatives with your business areas and highlight risks and opportunities.
• Able to work independently, 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?