People Partner (12 month FTC)

Hi, we’re Bloom & Wild. We don’t just send flowers. We help our customers to care wildly. Caring wildly is celebrating the little things we all do for each other every day. Not just the big occasions. It’s being there for the highs. Stepping up for the lows. We care wildly about people and our planet. Which is why we’re so proud to be a certified B CorpTM – committed to making long-term positive change for our community, and the world around us. Founded in 2013, our mission back then was to make sending and receiving flowers the joy that it should be, by harnessing technology, brand and letterbox delivery. We announced £75 million Series D funding in 2021 and that same year acquired bloomon in The Netherlands and Bergamotte in France. Together, we’ve fulfilled and delivered over 20 million orders (and counting!), making us the largest direct to consumer flower business in Europe. Now home to a family of 3 beautiful brands, we’re driven by our vision to create the destination for making life a little more thoughtful and beautiful. And we won't stop at flowers and plants. Starting with the Bloom & Wild brand, we're expanding our gifting offering to other categories like cakes, candles and cocktails. This is all part of our ambition to build Europe's #1 direct to consumer gifting destination. 🛠️ People @ Bloom & Wild Group The People Team at Bloom and Wild supports our team globally through a mix of business partnering and centres of excellence. We put people first and process second, and together with many others are the custodians of the Bloom and Wild Group culture. The People Team focus on: Business Partnering: Partnering with leaders and teams globally across our business to develop an organisation and talent agenda to support the needs of our expanding business. Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding: Focused on creating a differentiated ability to identify, attract and hire leading talent. Diversity Equity & Inclusion: Creating a culture of conscious inclusion, belonging and progressing our diversity journey across our core pillars of gender, ethnicity, disability & neurodiversity, sexual orientation, multi-generational, religion and social mobility. Culture and Engagement: Building an inclusive culture with employee wellbeing and experience at the core. We continuously identify ways to improve our team engagement and wellbeing by finding new practices which help us to balance work and life. Learning & Development: Coaching and developing the entire Bloom and Wild team to enable them to achieve impact and fulfilment in their role and to grow their careers. Talent Development: We evolve our Talent Management approach with the growth of the company, linking role performance and impact to career development in a clear, honest and inspiring way. HR Infrastructure & Employee Relations: Evolving our ways of working and people infrastructure (policies, systems, contracts) in line with our growing organisation leading with a high touch employee experience 💻 What you’ll be doing This is a great opportunity for an impact orientated, analytically minded People Partner with experience of working on developing holistic impactful people solutions for high performing teams. You'll work closely with our Technology, Data, Product & Business Insights functions to develop and lead a people agenda to support team and business success.

⚙️ Responsibilities will include:

• Act as a sounding board and effective coach to Senior Tech & Product Leadership (STL) and the Chief Product & Technology Officer to drive people strategy and initiatives, provide counsel, advice and valuable pushback.
• Identify insights and develop action plans which optimise existing people processes & programmes within these areas: leadership & management development, talent management & development, employee engagement and DE&I.
• On the ground practical, consistent and proactive support around talent acquisition & talent planning, onboarding, learning & development, performance management, policy development, immigration and ER.
• Support and input to our workforce & talent plan and work closely with TA partners to ensure requests for additional resources are strategically considered and organisationally effective.
• Ensure laser focus on DE&I commitments throughout your business areas developing diverse and inclusive teams. Serve as DEI subject matter expert to ensure DEI serves as a talent solution and strategic business differentiator.
• Coach people managers, offering the right support and information they need to build high performing and thriving teams.
• Provide expert advice to our leaders relating to workplace issues, keeping abreast of legislative and policy changes.
• Define and deliver learning and development strategies across the Tech, Product and BI. which build future capability, close skill gaps, increase engagement and retain critical talent. Be able to design and facilitate team effectiveness workshops
• Contribute to the development of our group wide people programmes, bringing external insights and innovative thinking which improves the experience of our employees and supports our business to deliver on its mission successfully.

✅ You’ll love this role if you...

• You know how to deliver business and commercial objectives through people solutions and programmes.
• You have a solid understanding of the cultural nuances that come with partnering with a diverse multi-location team, previous experience in business partnering with a technology business area would be an advantage.
• You’re passionate about developing talent, you enjoy team development and soft skills development and technical training.
• You have excellent business acumen understanding acutely how to enable business success through people & organisational capability.
• You have coaching and facilitation skills.
• You have experience in change management, creating and tracking data and analytics to contribute to decision making and to track progress.
• Good knowledge of market-based legislation, laws, culture and talent trends in countries that may impact or regulate diversity, equity, and inclusion-related practices would be an advantage.
• Demonstrated skills facilitating dialogue with and among employees to cultivate an environment of inclusiveness, shared responsibility, and collective accomplishment.
• You are intellectually curious, entrepreneurial, proactive, and able to take ownership.
• You have the ability to create goals, prioritise, and drive rapid delivery against the goals you define
• Comfortable operating as an individual contributor while having strong influencing skills.
These are some of the skills and experience we think will enable success in this role, but please don’t worry if you are missing some of these. We’re committed to building a team made up of different strengths, skills and experiences, so if you’re excited about our values, passionate about what you do and would like to join us in doing things more thoughtfully, we’d love to hear from you.

🏡 Belonging @ Bloom & Wild We know that we learn through our differences, and building a diverse team has always been central to creating the best experience for our customers. We value all backgrounds, perspectives, ideas and experiences, and encourage everyone to share their opinions openly within our caring and inclusive team. Our champions community actively advances our culture of inclusion and belonging, which is organised around 8 pillars of diversity. These cross-business networks offer additional opportunities for connection, education, support and celebration, and ensure that inclusivity continues to be embedded in our ways of working. 🧭 Our ways of working We really believe in the power of connection. For us that looks different depending on the team you work in. Some of our teams work together in person every day, whereas others may connect in person every quarter. We also believe in flexibility that supports you, the work you do, and your team. How much you work from home and from our office depends on a balance of those needs, and you’ll agree this with your manager. Whether it’s through a shared project, a learning and development opportunity, or an afterwork social - we trust our teams to make the right decisions (for them and us) about where and how they work each day. We’re big on collaboration, empathy, knowledge sharing and growth, and our values drive our priorities every day: Lead change for good: we have the guts to try new things and step up to do what matters most Think deeply, act swiftly: we make sure there’s thoughtful rationale behind our approach and always act swiftly to implement ideas Care wildly: we pour care and creativity into everything we do and pay attention to the things that make a difference Stay open, be curious: we’re open about what we’re doing and why, and we welcome challenges from each other 🌟 Work that works for you To care wildly for our customers, firstly we care wildly for our teams. We work hard to craft a culture of thoughtfulness and care, where there is a strong sense of inclusion and belonging, enabling all of our people to thrive and be successful each day. Our perks and benefits include: ⏰ Flexible working & work from abroad 🌴 25 days holiday + your birthday + flexible bank holidays, & option to buy additional holiday each year 💛 1 Volunteering day each year 🐣 Enhanced family leave and a workplace nursery scheme 🌱 A flexible training framework for every stage of your career 💐 Irresistible discounts on our products, blooms & subscriptions! For more information on our perks & bens, please see www.bloomandwild.com/careers 🫱‍🫲 Getting hired Please take time to upload your CV and answer the 3 application questions - we do read them all and our intention is to respond to everyone. If your application is successful, you can expect to have an initial call with Alys or Fiona from our People leadership team. Following this we’ll invite you to complete a role-related task for discussion with others from our People team, and there will also be an opportunity to meet with some of your potential stakeholders. We believe in leading change for good, so if there’s anything that we can do to help you flourish throughout your application process with us, or if you have any feedback, please share this with us anonymously here so we can use this to improve your experience. #Bloom&Wild