HR Business Partner - Technology & Digital

Job Locations UK-London | UK-Southampton
Entity
Corporate Centre
ID
2026-145587
Category
HR
Type
Permanent Full Time
Contract
Permanent
Hours Per Week
37.5

Overview

We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas to life. Guided by our purpose Better Homes. Better Lives. For Everyone. We believe a better world starts with better homes, and we work every day to make that a reality. Join us and help shape the future of home improvement. 

 

Drive the people agenda for Technology and Digital by partnering with leaders to enable high-performing, inclusive teams and effective ways of working. You’ll translate business strategy into impactful people plans, helping to shape organisation design, building critical capability, and strengthening leadership, while using data and insight to continuously improve outcomes. Through coaching, collaboration, and talent development, ensure the organisation is equipped to perform today and evolve for the future.

What's the job?

  • Define and drive the people and culture agenda to support organisational effectiveness, including organisation design, ways of working, leadership and engagement.
  • Partner with leaders to deliver people and ways of working change, supporting initiatives that improve business performance.
  • Coach leaders to recruit, retain and develop talent, building high-performing and inclusive teams based on trust.
  • Use insights, trends and KPIs to identify opportunities and continuously improve people outcomes.
  • Shape capability plans by identifying critical skills required and ensuring plans are in place to build or acquire them.
  • Work with leaders to identify and develop future talent, supporting career development and succession planning.
  • Collaborate with HR teams and centres of expertise to deliver impactful people plans and continuously improve through feedback.

What you'll bring

  • Experience operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, ideally within a global matrix structure.
  • Strong commercial acumen with the ability to link people plans to business performance.
  • Proven experience leading transformation or continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to engage and challenge at all levels.
  • Strong communication and coaching capability, with the ability to build credible relationships quickly.

How We Work 
We believe in flexibility and balance. Our hybrid model blends home working for focus with time spent connecting and collaborating - whether in our offices or at offsite locations. On average, around 60% of your time will involve in-person collaboration. 

We value the perspectives new team members bring and encourage you to apply - even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements. 

What We Offer 
An inclusive environment where your potential is limited only by your imagination. We encourage new ideas, support experimentation, and strive to create a workplace where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here.   

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career. Scroll down below to find out more about our benefits. 

Diversity & Inclusion 
Our customers come from all walks of life - and so do we. We’re committed to ensuring all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants are treated equally, regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, ethnicity, culture, religion, belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation. 

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible. 

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