People Business Partner

FARFETCH exists for the love of fashion. Our mission is to be the global platform for luxury fashion, connecting creators, curators and consumers.
We're a positive platform for good, bringing together an incredible creative community made up by our people, our partners and our customers. This community is at the heart of our business success. We welcome differences, empower individuality and celebrate diverse skills and perspectives, creating an inclusive environment for everyone.
PEOPLE TEAMWe're a global and collaborative team with the mission to create a "Happy People Revolution", by building a world-class company and inspiring Farfetchers to live our values and grow with us. We foster our consciously inclusive culture by empowering individuality and building a diverse brand people dream to be a part of.
NEW YORKOur New York office is located in Midtown near the iconic Bryant Park and the historic Grand Central Terminal, New York's best-connected office neighbourhood. The beautifully designed office has 360 views and tall windows to bring the outside in. The office is open with plenty of rooms and booths to take a private call, have time to relax, work in private, or have a large collaborative meeting.
THE ROLEAs we continue to accelerate in growth, we’re looking for a People Business Partner to join as a trusted partner to the business. You’ll ating a world class experience for our Stadium Goods retail and FARFETCH operations employees at all stages of the employee life cycle, providing timely and credible advice in line with policy, process and procedures. The role will also have a HR functional focus, contributing to and leading on, local projects to create a culture where our people thrive.You’ll be a proactive, progressive HR generalist with solid experience in retail employee relations and providing first-class advice to the business. You’ll have worked in a fast-paced environment, have excellent relationship building skills and an innovative and positive approach.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• You will partner with business leaders and the Head of People Partnering to design an aligned People strategy for your business areas, focussed on attracting, developing, motivating and retaining our people as we scale
• You will proactively coach, advise and counsel managers on best practice people management in line with company policy, process and procedure
• You will take the lead supporting managers through key people processes e.g. annual performance cycle and salary reviews, in line with the People Team project calendar 
• You will own people processes for your area and lead on local processes (if required), ensuring operational efficiency across all areas of the employee life cycle and a seamless and engaging employee experience e.g. payroll, immigration
• You will manage employee relations cases e.g. disciplinaries, grievances, performance, escalating to Head of when necessary
• You will partner with Head of People Partnering to design and execute on People Strategy for your business areas
• You will partner with the Head of People Partnering to drive and support data-driven key engagement initiatives that result from our regular Pulse surveys 
• You will work with functional experts to execute key people projects/initiatives such as compensation & benefits, learning & development, employer brand and talent acquisition.
• You will support the Head of People Partnering to deliver a World Class learning framework in line with both the People and overall business strategy in alignment with the Global learning and development team
• You will support in development and delivery of successful internal L&D initiatives at employee and manager level using a blended learning approach.  Always considering the company culture, values and our tone of voice.
• You will analyze, review and evaluate learning needs analysis and feedback to propose recommendations of learning solutions and improvements. Communicate these findings to Head of People Partnering.
• You will organize monthly learning calendars and ensure learning is coordinated and statistics are logged  
• You will partner with the Talent Acquisition team during the candidate offer process, advising and supporting to benchmark and calibrate candidate offers
• You will support and join the interview process for your business areas (where needed) to help drive a consistent process in line with our culture and values
• You will be the gatekeeper of the culture in the NY Office and drive this in your business areas

WHO YOU ARE

• You have proven generalist HR experience at business partner/ generalist level, in a fast-paced, high-growth or progressive retail environment with ideally a minimum of 5 years.
• You have excellent knowledge of US employment law and best practice specifically as it relates to employee