Interim People Partner

**People partners lead the implementation of the people agenda for the teams they work with at Secret Escapes. They act as a "trusted advisor" to leaders, providing advice, guidance and challenge. They are accountable for ensuring that employee engagement, performance and team effectiveness are well managed in the areas they work with.** **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** - Lead the implementation of the people agenda for the team you partner with at Secret Escapes - Act as a trusted advisor to leaders, providing advice, guidance and challenge - Accountable for ensuring that employee engagement, performance and team effectiveness are well managed in the areas they work with. **Things you'll be working on**: Reporting to the Senior People Partner, this role provides people partnering with leadership and teams within the Secret Escapes Group. The role is accountable for: - Partnering with business leaders and their teams to improve people and organisation performance - Building a diverse leadership talent pipeline, and ensuring retention of critical talent within your business areas - Partnering with the Employee Experience Partner to deliver regular talent reviews and implement development programmes - Ensuring high levels of employee engagement, as measured by our employee survey - Ensure employee relations matters are dealt with robustly and pragmatically, balancing risk effectively - Supporting people managers to have engaging & effective performance conversations in their teams - Support the effective implementation of the SE Reward approach, alongside the Senior People Partner and our Head of Reward and People Services - Owning elements of the SE people roadmap, and take an active role in key projects - Developing and championing a high-performance culture - Working in partnership with Talent Acquisition to ensure effective hiring of talent against an agreed recruitment forecast - Acting as the link with office management for the Berlin & Amsterdam office, working in partnership with the L&D Lead to deliver a positive employee experience - Act as the key facilitator/coordinator of key HR processes in collaboration with our Central People services team" **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 - The ability to use data to influence business decisions - A good understanding of German employment law - Experience as a HR generalist with a track record of successful delivery and collaboration with the wider people team - A Professional HR Qualification, or working towards - CIPD or equivalent **And you are** - Strong in building relationships and influencing - comfortable coaching and challenging stakeholders where appropriate - A strong communicator with everyone from executives through to new starters - Committed with a high degree of integrity and confidentiality - A critical thinker with strong numeracy and excel - Resilient and resourceful with a 'can do' attitude - Self - aware and proactive to collaborate with wider people team - Able to use judgement and work with ambiguity distilling key priorities/focus areas for your business areas - Commercially aware **Things you should know** **We are an equal opportunity employer**: