Kering Human Resources Business Partner

About Kering

Kering is a global luxury group renowned for nurturing some of the world’s most influential Houses in fashion, leather goods, jewelry, and eyewear, including Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, and Boucheron. As an employer, Kering offers a distinctive environment where creative excellence, entrepreneurial spirit, and long-term sustainability converge. The Group empowers its talents to shape the future of luxury through innovation, craftsmanship, and responsible business practices. With an international culture grounded in diversity, inclusion, and shared ambition, Kering provides meaningful career opportunities for professionals seeking to contribute to exceptional brands while advancing a more sustainable and imaginative luxury industry.

Role & Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with directors, managers and teams across the scope, understand their challenges, and translate the Client strategy into actionable HR priorities.
• Advise leaders on organisational evolution, operating models, role and responsibility clarity, and team performance in an international, matrix environment.
• Support transformations and operating-model changes across the scope.
• Lead workforce strategy across the scope, including workforce and skills planning, recruitment, mobility, succession, organisational scenarios, insourcing and payroll monitoring.
• Support employee development and strategic skills development across the scope.
• Support the recruitment and onboarding of expert profiles with Talent Acquisition teams, and strengthen pipelines for critical skills.
• Lead performance, talent, succession, compensation and development cycles, ensuring decision quality, fairness and alignment with the function’s priorities.
• Coach managers in their people-leader responsibilities, including goal setting, feedback, development, engagement, recognition, performance management and change management.
• Use HR and business data to inform decisions, identify risks, make recommendations and measure action-plan impact through relevant KPIs.
• Support transformations, reorganisations and business transfers; prepare people-impact analyses and contribute to structured change and communications plans.
• Manage individual and collective cases with Employee Relations and Legal teams, ensuring compliance with French legislation, applicable agreements and Group policies.
• Contribute to cross-functional HR initiatives for the function and Group, including diversity and inclusion, engagement, culture, new ways of working, and the simplification and digitalisation of HR processes.
• Propose team development, engagement and retention action plans, drawing in particular on results from the Kering Employee Listening Survey.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of professional experience, including established experience as an HR Business Partner or HR Manager in an international, matrix and transforming environment.
• A good understanding of retail and Client services and experiences is a significant advantage.
• Strong command of HR fundamentals and French employment law, with the ability to handle sensitive situations pragmatically and with legal rigour.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without hierarchical authority, challenge judiciously and build solutions with senior stakeholders.
• Strong business and client orientation, ability to turn data into recommendations, and ability to manage several priorities simultaneously.
• Experience supporting transformations, reorganisations, business transfers or operating-model changes.
• Excellent communication skills, service orientation, rigour, autonomy, discretion and results orientation.
• Fluent French and English, written and spoken.
• Proficiency in an HRIS, ideally Workday, and confidence using HR analytics and reporting tools.
• Knowledge of the luxury sector is an advantage.

Skills

Experience

At least 10 years of professional experience, including established experience as an HR Business Partner or HR Manager in an international, matrix and transforming environment.

Education

Bac+5 qualification in Human Resources, Employment Law, business school or equivalent.

Culture

Kering fosters a dynamic, purpose-driven culture where creativity, entrepreneurship, and collaboration support the distinct identities of its luxury Houses. As an employer, the Group places strong emphasis on sustainability, diversity, and talent development, encouraging people to innovate responsibly while contributing to the future of modern luxury.

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