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At Lacoste PCL, we’re reinventing the sneaker industry. We’ve got plans to expand the confines of shoe innovation, focusing on performance and fashion.

We proudly celebrate our incredible history; founded by René Lacoste in 1933, you might know us for our legendary polo shirts… but we’re so much more. Since January 2018, Pentland and Lacoste formed a joint venture, and we’re the force behind Lacoste footwear globally. Now we’re on to the next big breakthrough, and we want you to be a part of it.

You can expect to feel right at home as soon as you enter our beautiful and creative space in North London, and our team is a truly friendly and welcoming bunch.

You’ll thrive in our environment if you’re ready to meaningfully play as One Team. As one of our core values, it will be an important part of your life here. You won’t go a day without someone coming over to your desk to get your opinion or seeing a group of creatives getting excited over an idea they’ve had.

As a small and non-hierarchical team of around 60, you’ll get the opportunity to collaborate cross-functionally, regardless of job role. When you join us, we promise you’ll always be learning something new or feeling challenged, in the best way possible.

This is a Hybrid Role, we come together to work in our office in North London Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursday and work from home Mondays and Fridays.

The Role in Detail

HR Advice and Coaching

• Be the first point of contact for colleagues, providing best practice specialist advice, support and coaching to the business about all people matters in support of business strategy
• Provide timely and accurate advice and guidance, given with consideration to the business context

• Ensure the business is compliant on core employment legislation where required

Recruitment

• Work in partnership with Create + Adapt to ensure a best-in-class recruitment and onboarding process

• Support Managers with the recruitment process – from selecting the most appropriate questions for interview, partnering in interviews, creating an effective onboarding process and holding a one-month catch up meeting for feedback and continuous improvement planning
• Ensure all new starter paperwork is completed correctly so that the Payroll and Benefits Adviser can effectively contract and upload the new starter to our payroll system (ADP)
• Update our IT inventory and network in line with starters and leavers

Performance Management and Employee Relations

• Coach, support and educate managers through poor performance, misconduct and employee issues of any kind
• Ensure a fair and reasonable process and outcome whilst always looking for a win-win
• Keep up to date and advise on contemporary HR best practice and legislation in relation to ER

Talent, Learning and Development

• Continue to promote the business’ L&D platform (Learnerbly)

• Identify gaps in capability and support managers in implementing targeted learning opportunities to address these; including the development of training initiatives with our partners

OD, Change Management and Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to the development and delivery of structural, cultural and behavioural plans in pursuit of business strategy

• Support, and participate in change initiatives using the appropriate tools to ensure the best outcome for all
• Actively look for opportunities to improve the way we do things across the business
• Keep up to date with contemporary HR and new initiatives

Engagement

Support the development of high-performance culture by:

• Acting as an ambassador for PCL engagement and the continued success of Open Blend
• Coaching and supporting managers to make improvements and talk to the areas where colleagues are calling out potential issues through the Open Blend, or other medium
• Look for opportunities to support managers to assimilate engagement activities into day-to-day business and support engagement events across the business

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellness

• Look for opportunities to support employees and managers in relation to wellness
• Plan, organise and roll-out engaging D&I awareness activity

• Lead the Mental Health First Aid program that is due for renewal in 2024

Remuneration

• Work with the Payroll and Benefits Advisor to provide advice on remuneration and benefits for positions based on the Job Description, market data and internal relativities

• Coach and support managers with regards to appropriate remuneration
• Support the Payroll and Reward Manager in the coordination of the annual remuneration review process
• Assist with remuneration related enquiries

Legal

• Ensure we comply with all our legal obligations, from GDPR training and processing, health and safety, and business continuity planning

Skills

• Experience in a fast paced, high volume HR team
• Knowledge and understanding of current HR legislation and best practice in generalist human resources
• Some experience in Employment Relations including misconduct, performance, restructures and policy interpretation
• Fully competent across all Microsoft Office packages
• Exposure to a shared-service HR function would be an advantage
  

Our Values

PLAY AS ONE TEAM

Playing as one team means showing respect towards everyone and commitment for the team's work and decisions.

PLAY WITH ELEGANCE

Playing with elegance is striving for excellence while treating others with fair play and humility.

PLAY BY DARING

Playing by daring is having the courage to speak up, experiment and take initiative to explore new opportunities.

PLAY BY TENACITY

Playing with tenacity means that we constantly seek continuous improvement, learning from our failures.