Why choose Reiss?

With the intrinsic sustainability, quality and timeless elegance of our designs, our continued success comes as no surprise. With standalone stores, concessions, franchise operations in over 230 locations internationally, as well as online and app, our presence as a leading luxury brand is well established.

Working at Reiss, our common purpose is to continue to grow our business, to walk in the shoes of our customers, and to be exceptional in everything we do.

What's the role about?

As part of the Retail People & Culture team, the People Development Manager is accountable for creating and ensuring the delivery of our people development strategy by partnering with senior stakeholders to understand the needs of our global retail teams, and for delivering this through the team. They provide thought leadership on best-in-market retail development programmes, and best ways to grow market-leading retail employees, and internal talent pipelines.

What you'll be doing

• Provide Reiss Retail employees clarity, direction & structure around career progression, driving the performance review cycle and creating a culture of “always on” development conversations
• Work with the Talent team to develop an internal talent pipeline for all retail management roles, optimizing our ratio of internal to external management appointments

• Think global first in all design and delivery, balancing needs for consistent vs local design, and ensuring we consider all markets and store formats
• Evaluate and report on the impact of learning initiatives, ensuring approaches are built for maximum “stickiness”
• Ensure that Reiss retail induction programs deliver high levels of competency for all new starters
• Deliver the engagement survey and support the subsequent action planning
• Advocate and design for inclusion in all aspects of development and career progression, making learning accessible for all employees

• Deliver retail leadership learning solutions to grow leadership impact
• Coach retail leaders on operational skills and management effectiveness
• Review the impact our training has against business objectives and adapt when required
• Build key relationships with external providers to deliver a balanced curation of learning solution that optimises team resources

Who you are

• Proven track record of delivering best in market learning solutions in high volume environment, preferably retail or hospitality
• Proven ability to build and maintain great relationships with senior stakeholders
• Work and think at pace, anticipate challenges and persist to move projects forward
• Highly engaging approach, able to connect easily with new people

• Ability to flex approach and style to the audience
• Commercially-informed approach
• Self-motivated and able to manage own workload
• Collaborative mindset and team-orientation
• Deep curiosity about people and L&D trends

• Commitment to ongoing self-development

What we'll do for you

• Competitive salary
• Company pension
• Generous employee discount
• Company bonus scheme
• Health & Wellbeing perks

• Plus many more

If you want to start your story at Reiss as our People Development Manager don't miss out - apply now!

#WeAreReiss

We recognise the importance and power of diversity within our business and, as such, we ensure that our people processes are fair, transparent and promote equality of opportunity for all candidates.

It is our pledge that candidates will not be discriminated against on the grounds of gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, marital status, age, race, colour, ethnic background, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion, religious or similar belief. Every individual will be treated with respect.

We know that some people won't apply for a role unless they feel you don't meet all of the requirements listed, so we want you to know that finding people who will add to our culture and have a learning mindset is incredibly important to us. Even if you feel you don't tick all the boxes, we'd still like to hear from you.