Secret Escapes
Location
India | United Kingdom
Job description
People Partners lead the implementation of the people agenda for their assigned business groups at Secret Escapes. They act as a “trusted advisor” to leaders, providing advice, guidance and challenge with a commercial viewpoint. They are accountable for driving employee engagement, performance and team effectiveness initiatives with their business partners across the relevant jurisdictions.
About Secret Escapes
Secret Escapes is the world’s leading members-only online travel deal company, offering inspiring travel experiences and hand-picked offers to over 75 million users worldwide across our family of brands.
Operating in 14 countries across Europe and Asia, Secret Escapes Group continues to grow and establish itself as a world-class business, dedicated to giving our members the best range and value in luxury travel deals at low prices. We have 5 operating companies, and around 1000 colleagues in our team.
Secret Escapes operates a flexible working policy and we are all in the office 1 day a week (minimum) and have core hours of 10am-4pm (you can make up the other hours to suit you). In keeping with being an inspirational travel brand, we also have a ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy, so you can work from anywhere in the world for up to a month each year!
We’re a diverse and inclusive bunch of individuals from different backgrounds and with varied interests, but the one thing we all have in common is that we’re good people (even if we do say so ourselves!).
Aim of our People Partners
Things you’ll be working on:
This role leads and develops the People Partnering team and provides commercial business partnering support for two of the businesses in the Secret Escapes Group - the Secret Escapes “Brand”, and Pigsback.ie (our business in Ireland).
The role partners with our Chief Customer, Marketing and Revenue Officers and their leadership teams, and will also have direct line management of 1 x People Partners in London and Berlin who partner with our Technology and Finance teams, along with EML, our business based in Ireland on business partnering and key projects. You will partner with leadership teams in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Ireland, which include 6 executive leaders and a headcount of around 450.
The Senior People Partner reports to the CPO and participates fully in the People Leads activity, contributing to OKR development, communicating and owning key projects as part of our People Strategy.
People are critical to Secret Escapes success, and we pride ourselves on that “we are good people.” You will play a key role in enabling leaders to maximise the performance and impact of their teams by:
How the magic happens
Across the Secret Escapes group, there are around 30 of us in our people team, with 19 working with the Secret Escapes Brand and EML for some or all of their time. We are an international bunch - you will get to work with People Team colleagues based in London, Warsaw, Berlin, Bratislava and Prague, and we love having such a diverse team.
We work hard, understand our stakeholders and have the full support of our CEO (who is full of energy and competes in endurance sporting events when he isn’t working!)
The deal breakers:
To be successful in this role, you will have…
And you are…
Things you should know
This role will be based in our London office. As well as our work from anywhere policy and hybrid working, we are also open to offering this role on a part time contract (4 days a week). If this is of interest to you please let us know when you apply for the role!
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