L brands

VP, HR Business Partner - Brands

L brands$180K — $250K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of progressive HR leadership experience
  • Proven success working with senior executives and cross-functional teams
  • Expertise in organizational effectiveness, talent strategy, and succession planning
  • Strong business acumen linking HR strategies to business outcomes
  • Excellent skills in influencing, facilitation, and executive coaching
  • Ability to manage complexity and prioritize enterprise and business needs
  • Experience in retail, consumer, or customer-centric industries preferred

Responsibilities

  • Advise senior leaders on aligning people strategies with business goals
  • Translate business priorities into talent and workforce strategies
  • Influence leadership on critical organizational and talent decisions
  • Encourage cross-functional partnerships for enterprise alignment
  • Assess and improve organizational health and effectiveness
  • Guide leaders on organizational design and operating models
  • Lead talent and succession planning initiatives

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs
  • Employee discount on products
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Work-life balance initiatives
  • Collaborative and inclusive company culture
Full Job Description
Your Role

The VP, Human Resources Business Partner - Brands serves as the strategic HR leader for Victoria's Secret, PINK, and Beauty lines of business. Partnering directly with the Brand Presidents, this role helps ensure each brand organization has the leadership, talent, structure, and culture needed to deliver business performance while also strengthening effectiveness across the cross-functional teams that support each brand.

The role plays a critical part in driving organizational effectiveness across merchandising, product creation, design, sourcing, planning, marketing, and other functions that come together to serve the customer and execute brand strategies.

As a member of the HR Leadership Team, this role partners closely with business leaders to align people strategies with business priorities, ensuring the organization has the leadership, capabilities, structure, and culture required to achieve its objectives. The HRBP provides counsel on talent planning, organizational design, leadership effectiveness, succession, change management, and team performance while helping leaders navigate growth, transformation, and evolving business needs.

Your Impact

  • Leadership team effectiveness across the three brands.
  • Organizational design and alignment in support of brand growth.
  • Cross-functional collaboration and decision-making.
  • Talent strategy and succession planning for key brand leadership roles.
  • Building capabilities that strengthen brand innovation and execution.


Key Responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnership

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, helping shape and execute business strategies through people and organizational solutions.
  • Translate business priorities into talent, organization, and workforce strategies that drive performance and growth.
  • Influence leadership teams on organizational, talent, and leadership decisions.
  • Foster strong partnerships across functions to support enterprise alignment and collaboration.


Organization Effectiveness

  • Assess organizational health, effectiveness, structure, and operating models.
  • Partner with leaders to improve organizational performance, accountability, and ways of working.
  • Guide organization design and operating model decisions that support business priorities.
  • Facilitate leadership team effectiveness and cross-functional collaboration.


Talent & Leadership

  • Lead talent planning, succession planning, and leadership development efforts.
  • Identify critical capabilities and build plans to strengthen organizational bench strength.
  • Support leaders in building high-performing teams and driving a culture of accountability.
  • Partner on executive coaching, leadership effectiveness, and performance management.


Culture & Change

  • Champion Victoria's Secret & Co.'s Culture Code and leadership expectations.
  • Lead organizational change efforts and support leaders through transformation.
  • Leverage associate feedback, workforce data, and business insights to inform people priorities.
  • Partner with Centers of Excellence to deliver integrated talent and people solutions.


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Qualifications

  • 15+ years of progressive HR leadership experience.
  • Proven success partnering with senior executives and cross functional leadership teams.
  • Deep expertise in organizational effectiveness, talent strategy, succession planning, and change leadership.
  • Strong business acumen and ability to connect people strategies to business outcomes.
  • Excellent executive presence, influencing, facilitation, and coaching skills.
  • Ability to navigate complexity and balance enterprise priorities with business-specific needs.
  • Retail, consumer, multi-brand, or customer-centric business experience preferred.


About L brands

Bath & Body Works, Inc. is an American specialty retailer based in Columbus, Ohio. It owns Bath & Body Works, posted $11.9 billion in revenue in 2021, and was listed as 248 on the 2020 Fortune 500 list of largest United States companies by revenue. In February 2020, L Brands announced the planned sale of its Victoria's Secret division to Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm. Under the agreement, Sycamore Partners would gain a 55% controlling stake in Victoria's Secret while L Brands would keep a 45% stake, leaving Bath & Body Works to become L Brand's sole business. The sale fell through in May 2020, although Wexner did step down as CEO as planned, replaced by Andrew Meslow. In March 2021, L Brands announced it would spin off Victoria’s Secret as a stand-alone publicly traded company, and then change its name to Bath & Body Works, Inc.
Learn more about L brands
Size
2,800 employees
Market Cap
$22.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$845.3 million
Founded
1963
5 Year Trend
-0.5%
Revenue
$11.8 billion
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