People Business Partner

We’re looking for a People Business Partner to lead our people strategy, champion our culture & values and enable our colleagues to achieve their highest potential.

You’ll be a strategic advisor, coach and change agent, providing data driven insights and expertise that supports our plans in a fast-paced growing business. In this role you’ll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home, office and in the field which will include occasional overnight stays.

What you’ll do

• Develop a people plan, driving the achievement of the business objectives through a strong culture and values-based approach


• Act as a performance coach to the Managing Director, Regional Manager, District Managers and Store Managers to improve individual performance, capability, and engagement


• Lead, coach, and develop strong succession planning at all levels, creating a culture of development and organic growth that will support our future growth plans


• Motivate, develop, and drive employee engagement and retention at all levels initiating cultural programmes to support. Celebrating and recognising personal and team achievements across internal and external network platforms


• Provide expert and proactive case management of employee related issues that encourages and enables line managers to take accountability to resolve cases in line with employment legislation and business policy


• Manage employee consultation, redeployment, or termination of employment through TUPE and redundancy exercises


• Provide monthly data to the business, analysing MI to identify trends and actions required to improve performance, development, and employee engagement


• Provide data and insight to enable the development of an appropriate pay, reward and recognition offering, and co-ordinate the implementation of the reward strategy

What you’ll need

• CIPD qualified


• Broad HR generalist experience & in-depth knowledge of current employment legislation and it’s application


• Experience of TUPE and acquisitions


• Experience of working in a multi-site organisation


• Confident communicator with coaching and influencing skills


• Full UK driving licence

What we can offer you

• 34 days of annual leave (incl bank holidays) increasing over time to a maximum of 39 days after 5 years’ service


• 20% discount


• Hybrid working


• Healthcare cash plan


• Share incentive plan


• Private Medical cover 


• Critical illness Insurance 


• NEST pension


• Cycle-to-work scheme


• Opportunities to develop your skills through apprenticeships and our own in-house training & development programmes

You’ll not only join the Starbucks family but the Cobra Coffee family. Cobra Coffee is proud to be a Starbucks UK franchised partner. We’re a company that cares about how we do business, it is important to us that our colleagues have a great work life balance with opportunities to develop their skills and experience.

Cobra coffee, owned by Southern Co-op is a Starbucks UK franchised business partner.