About the Role
The People & Culture Partner serves as a trusted, strategic advisor to business leaders and teams, bringing together HR expertise and strategic thinking to coach leaders, strengthen teams, and champion company culture and values. This role acts as a visible culture and values ambassador, ensuring the employee experience reflects the company's identity and beliefs.
Responsibilities
- Serve as advisor, coach, and people expert for assigned teams.
- Lead regular meetings with business leaders on people, culture, growth, and performance priorities.
- Partner with senior leaders on workforce planning, organizational design, succession planning, and talent development.
- Assist teams and individuals in navigating change while maintaining focus on core values.
- Design and lead learning experiences for leader development at all levels.
- Facilitate workshops, trainings, and meetings to support team and organizational growth.
- Shape training strategy across Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I), leadership development, and individual growth.
- Lead change management efforts at team, area, and organizational levels.
- Embody company values in interactions, coaching, and decision-making.
- Integrate culture, values, and DE&I considerations into all aspects of the employee experience.
- Design and evolve programs to enhance connection to company culture.
- Guide career pathing conversations and support performance management, coaching, and Need For Performance Improvement (NFPI) processes.
- Conduct stay and exit interviews and proactive focus groups to identify trends.
- Lead HR investigations with care, discretion, and fairness.
- Coach leaders on onboarding plans and performance feedback.
- Welcome new hires and facilitate New Hire Orientation.
- Track and analyze people data to inform strategy, including DE&I metrics, turnover, and retention themes.
- Stay current on future-of-work trends and best workplace practices.
- Partner closely with Benefits, Compensation, Talent Acquisition, and Operations teams.
- Lead and contribute to key People & Culture initiatives, such as Health & Safety, Development Dialogues, and Employee Pulse Surveys.
- Perform other related duties as required.
Requirements
- Serve as advisor, coach, and go-to people expert for assigned teams across the enterprise.
- Lead regular touch-bases with business leaders on people, culture, growth and performance priorities.
- Partner with senior leaders on workforce planning, org design, succession planning, and talent development.
- Help teams and individuals navigate change while staying grounded in what matters most.
- Design and lead learning experiences that grow leaders at every level.
- Facilitate workshops, trainings, and meetings that support team and organizational growth.
- Shape training strategy across DE&I, leadership development, and individual growth.
- Lead change management efforts at the team, area, and organizational level.
- Bring our values to life in how you show up, coach, and make decisions.
- Weave culture, values, and DE&I considerations into every aspect of the employee experience.
- Design and evolve programs that deepen connection to our culture.
- Guide career pathing conversations and support performance management, coaching, and Need For Performance Improvement (NFPI) processes.
- Conduct stay and exit interviews and proactive focus groups to surface trends early.
- Lead HR investigations with care, discretion, and fairness.
- Coach leaders directly on onboarding plans and performance feedback.
- Welcome new hires through onboarding/facilitating New Hire Orientation.
- Track and analyze people data to inform strategy (DE&I metrics, turnover, retention themes, etc.).
- Stay current on future-of-work trends and workplace best practices.
- Partner closely with Benefits, Compensation, Talent Acquisition, and Operations.
- Lead and contribute to key P&C initiatives, including but not limited to Health & Safety, Development Dialogues, Employee Pulse Surveys.
Skills
- HR expertise
- Strategic thinking
- Coaching
- Team strengthening
- Culture and values ambassadorship
- Workforce planning
- Organizational design
- Succession planning
- Talent development
- Change management
- Learning experience design
- Workshop facilitation
- Training strategy development
- DE&I
- Leadership development
- Performance management
- Employee relations
- Data analysis
- Future-of-work trends
- Workplace best practices
Education Level
- B.A. in a related field preferred; relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
About the Company
- EILEEN FISHER creates simple, timeless shapes designed to work together effortlessly, season after season.
- We make our clothes to last—and then take them back to be reworn again or remade into entirely new designs.
- We believe in the fundamental potential of every person—our employees, our customers and those who make our clothes—and are committed to creating conditions that empower people.
- It’s all part of our commitment to doing business in a way that helps build a better industry. And a better future.
- EILEEN FISHER is one of the largest women’s fashion companies to be a certified B Corporation, which means we voluntarily meet high criteria for social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency.
- As a founder led Company, our values are deeply embedded in and shape our culture.
- Our values are a shared responsibility embodied in every position and are intended to be woven into all that we do; how we approach our work and how we interact with one another.
- Our values support our commitment to diversity, equity & inclusion, and our commitment to Sustainability guides us to protect our limited natural resources, fight climate change, support human rights and social impact, and inspire the fashion industry to embrace circularity.
- We are authentic.
- We thrive in connection.
- We trust each other.
- We innovate through creativity.
- We are committed to the health of the whole.
- We are united by purpose.
