Talent Development Manager

3 weeks ago


Brighton, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom Sainsbury's Full time

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced HR professional to join our team as a Head of People Partnering. This is a regionally based role which is typically around 60% travel & 40% remote. You'll be regularly checking in with your 3 People Partners who are covering the geographies of North West London, East & West Sussex and Berkshire.

Why This Role Matters

As our Head of People for our Retail Zones, you will partner with Senior Leaders in this part of the business, supporting the execution of our business and workforce strategies through the development and implementation of strategic people plans. You will be a conduit into our centres of excellence, ensuring the correct expertise is engaged to solve business problems. As a conscience of culture and driver of performance, you will coach leaders, and deliver a tangible return on investment by building capability, maximising capacity, and cost efficiency to deliver customer outcomes and shareholder value.

Your Key Responsibilities

  • Support the execution of our business and workforce strategies by developing and implementing strategic people plans.
  • Translate our strategy into meaningful and actionable people plans, ensuring business goals and metrics are met.
  • Drive a high-performance culture through coaching and engagement with business leaders.
  • Enable, embed, and sustain business change, promoting deep and meaningful relationships that drive business benefit.
  • Identify and nurture talent interventions and capabilities.
  • Lead cyclical talent, performance, and reward activities.

What We're Looking For

You are an experienced HR professional with a proven track record of delivering impactful people plans in fast-paced and complex commercial organisations. You understand the commercial impact of a HR function, with evidence of using people levers to deliver great business outcomes. As an excellent communicator, you possess strong influencing and relationship-building skills, collaborating closely with senior leaders and stakeholders across the organisation. With a commercial mindset and the ability to interpret and utilise data to inform decision-making, you are adept at creating and delivering people plans that support transformational change, talent management, and organisational effectiveness.

Key Strengths

  • Leading Change: Be curious, adaptable, and innovative, using data and business insight to support your decisions on approach, and measuring the success of changes implemented.
  • Commercial Acumen: Use savvy commercial decision making to have a direct impact on the businesses outcomes, and ensuring decisions you're making add value to the customer.
  • Collaboration & Influence: Have a very agile mindset, comfortable with ambiguity, and happy to fail fast, utilising all the different leadership styles to change your approach depending on your audience, enabling you to effectively influence.

Requirements

  • Proven track record over several years as an HR Business Partner in fast-paced, complex, commercial organisations.
  • A commercial contributor, with evidence of using people levers to deliver great business outcomes.
  • Experience of creating and delivering people plans, leading delivery through cross-functional teams.
  • Experience of significant business and HR organisation change and transformation and delivering sustained outcomes.
  • Expert in talent management.
  • Strong influencing, partnering, and relationship-building skills, working with senior leaders and stakeholders across the business.
  • Ability to interrogate and interpret data, drawing insights to inform business recommendations and decisions.
  • CIPD Level 7 or equivalent combination of knowledge, skills, and experience.
  • Learning agility – ability to grow.
  • Organisational effectiveness and design experience in the context of business partnering.

About Us

We are a leading retailer with a strong commitment to our people. We offer a range of benefits, including colleague discount, pension scheme, life cover, and performance-related bonus. We also offer flexible working arrangements, including season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance, and access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, welcoming colleagues from diverse backgrounds and promoting a culture of equality and respect.



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