Director, HR UK & Intl (6-Month FTC)

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Hiring Remotely in United Kingdom
Remote
Food
The Role

What’s Unique About You Is What Makes Us Better! Diversity is our strength and competitive advantage. Bring your flavor to the Papa John's team today!

Job Summary
As a business partner to the International and UK leadership team, UK & International team members, the Director HR Business Partner is responsible for the overall implementation and application of Papa Johns’ employee relations, HRIS, DE&I, HR programs, talent management, company policies and procedures. This role acts as a bridge between global initiatives and local activities to ensure relevance and creates the desired impact in the UK and International regions through careful adaptation. This is a hybrid role: 2 days per week in the office and 3 working from home.

Duties and Responsibilities (other duties as assigned)

  • Produces UK & International overall People Strategy and translates into key HR workstreams with a US alignment; takes a proactive approach to identifying key people issues and opportunities; builds strong business cases to support recommended courses of action. 

  • Primary budgetary control of the UK and International HR budget 

  • Provide guidance on people system solutions that fit the business requirements for the UK & International Markets. 

  • Makes effective recommendations between line and staff responsibilities; has credibility with senior executives as an effective business partner 

  • Plans, organizes, and implements significant HR initiatives across the UK and International markets, coordinates effectively across various departments and staff groups to ensure smooth communication and program implementation throughout the organization.  

  • Establishes credibility throughout the organization at all levels of management, in order to be an effective listener and problem solver. 

  • Leads a team of HR Business Partners and related staff; establishes objectives, goals and priorities for implementing HRIS solutions that supports the use of HR technology across the organization. 

  • Develops strategies and implementation plans across the organization that identify talent within international markets. 

  • Counsel the corporation in embracing applicants and employees of all backgrounds while supporting the development and performance of all team members. 

  • Monitors and ensures corporate-wide compliance on a range of employment law topics relevant to both U.S. and international. 

  • Develops and produces all standalone International HR policies and provides expertise on organizational HR policies that cover both U.S. and International employees. Requires a full understanding of differences for UK & International policies. 

  • Develops and produces all UK HR programs, employment benefits, DE&I and related initiatives, with a complete understanding of the differences between UK & International policies along with coordinating and implementing such programs. 

  • Manage International contractor relationships with 3rd party agencies along with assessing the business risk and need.

Everybody loves pizza, which means they also love the people who are behind the scenes working to deliver it. This is complex and challenging work – but let’s face it – it’s also pizza! If you want a fulfilling career with a company that’s always moving forward, we’re the right place.

Papa John's Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Papa John's and has not been reviewed or approved by Papa John's.

  • Healthcare Strength Healthcare coverage is described as available for eligible roles, including medical and dental options, alongside life and disability coverage in some packages.
  • Retirement Support Retirement support is described as available for eligible employees through a 401(k) plan, sometimes referenced with a company match depending on role and employer.
  • Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards Career-linked rewards are described through education support such as the Dough & Degrees program and occasional performance-related bonuses or recognition-style perks in certain organizations.

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The Company
HQ: Louisville, KY
13,567 Employees
Year Founded: 1984

What We Do

Papa John's Pizza is an American restaurant company that runs the third largest take-out and pizza delivery restaurant. Papa John's seeks people who have an entrepreneurial spirit and share our philosophy for success. Hands-on training, a clean and safe work environment, quality business practices, advancement opportunities and meaningful work combine to produce not only the best pizza, but also the best team members! Better Opportunities. Better People! At Papa John's we call ourselves team members instead of employees because we believe it is only through a strong team we can produce the best experience for our customers. Whether at our corporate campus, distribution centers, our restaurants, or located internationally; Papa John's has a variety of positions for talented and passionate people. Papa John's is an equal opportunity employer and provides excellent career opportunities for our entire team. Our company philosophies of promote from within and rewards based on performance are important elements of our company culture.

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