People partners lead the implementation of the people agenda for the teams they work with at Travelist. 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 Travelist.pl
Created from the need to make dreams come true. Travelist is the largest portal in Poland connecting a booking platform and an inspiring travel magazine. Our team of experts carefully selects offers in Poland and abroad, tailors them to the needs of our customers and negotiates the best prices on the market on their behalf.
We are part of the International Secret Escapes Group – the world's leading, members-only travel and experiences company. We inspire the world to escape by bringing hand-picked offers at unbeatable prices to millions of members worldwide across our Secret Escapes, Travelist, Slevomat, Zl'avomat, Skrz and Pigsback brands.
Since our launch in 2011 we have welcomed over 60 million members globally. We're backed by some of the smartest and most successful investors out there, and are a resilient, forward looking scale-up with big ambitions.
Aim of our People Partners
- Lead the implementation of the people agenda for Travelist colleagues
- 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:
This role provides people partnering for Travelist has around 120 colleagues who combine professionalism with passion for travel.
In this role you will work with the leadership teams across Travelist, and collaboratively with People Team colleagues across Secret Escapes, with the support of our Talent Acquisition Partner and an aligned People Services Administrator.
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 at Secret Escapes to 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 Travelist Reward approach, alongside our Head of Reward and People Services
- Owning the Travelist 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 Warsaw office where we are looking to build connection/collaboration within the office. You will also work 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 4 working with the Travelist Brand 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.
The lack of rigid corporate rules, creates an extraordinary atmosphere enabling professional development.
The deal breakers:
To be successful in this role, you will have…
- Knowledge and application of org design, employment law, HR policies, principles, and procedures
- The ability to use data to influence business decisions
- A good understanding of Polish employment law
- Experience as a HR generalist with a track record of successful delivery and collaboration with the wider people team
- Experience in managing business change projects through the application of strong project management skills
- A Professional HR Qualification, or working towards one
- Can speak fluent Polish and English
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
- Happy to work as part of a global team, collaborating with People Team colleagues to deliver projects
- 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
This role will be based in our Warsaw office where we have a hybrid working policy of 3 days a week in the office and 2 days a week from home. We also have a work from anywhere policy where our colleagues can work from anywhere for up to 30 days a year!
