People Partner

5 months ago

Ilford, United Kingdom Sainsbury's Full time

This is a regionally based role which is typically around 60% travel & 40% remote. The main urban areas for this role are Stratford, Newham, Lewisham, Ilford & Hackney.

Why join us

Our People Partner will partner with Senior leaders in Retail as a trusted, visible advisor and business partner, supporting the execution and delivery of functional or geographic plans, set out by the Senior Leadership team. You will be a conduit into our centres of excellence, ensuring the correct expertise is engaged to solve business problems.

The role will drive our culture, enable performance, coach managers, and deliver a tangible return on investment by building regional or divisional capability, maximising capacity, and cost efficiency to deliver customer outcomes and shareholder value.
 

What you'll do

You will play a vital role in partnering with a Regional Stores Director in Retail to provide trusted advisory support and guidance. Working collaboratively with the cross-functional teams and centres of excellence, you develop and deliver strategic regional or divisional people plans that address specific functional people challenges. Your responsibilities will involve mobilising and delivering against these plans, driving a high-performance culture through coaching and influencing leaders, executing and embedding business change initiatives, and fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.

Additionally, you will analyse people data to inform decision-making, track progress against targets and measures, and actively contribute to driving positive metrics related to engagement, talent, performance, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Your role will be essential in driving business performance and ensuring that the organisation is equipped with the right capabilities to succeed.
 

Who you are

You are a highly experienced and strategic HR professional with a proven track record in partnering with senior leaders and stakeholders in fast-paced and complex commercial organisations. With your CIPD Level 5 + qualification and expertise in creating and delivering people plans in collaboration with Centres of Excellence, you have strong influencing and relationship-building skills. Your talent management experience, coupled with your ability to enable and drive business change and transformation, adds value to the organisation. As a data-driven decision-maker, you excel in analysing and drawing insights from data to inform strategic decision-making. With your deep understanding of organisational design and effectiveness, you contribute to shaping effective business partnerships.
 

Strengths you need to demonstrate

Leading Change is the element not just around change initiatives like restructures or business change, but cultural or behavioural change amongst leaders. 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 is all about knowing the commercial levers of the business and how its people can deliver them. You'll 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. You'll be close to the market and understand how we can stay ahead in an ever-changing market.
 

Collaboration & Influence is all around your matrix working, where within all large businesses there are lots of teams focusing on different things and how do you stay connected with what's going on and how you can work with them to use their expertise. 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.
 

What you need to know and show

Essentials

Proven track record as a People / HR Business Partner in fast-paced, complex, commercial organisations CIPD Level 5+ or equivalent combination of knowledge skills and experience Experience of creating and delivering people plans in partnerships with CoE’s, leading delivery through cross functional teams Strong influencing, partnering and relationship building skills, working with senior leaders and stakeholders across the business to build trusted relationships Talent management experience Experience enabling and delivering business significant business change / transformation Strong data skills, able to identify / analyse and draw insight from data to help inform decision making

Desirable

 Organisational design / effectiveness experience in the context of a business partnering role

Our people are at the heart of our business, and we are looking for those that are just as passionate about that as we are. Join our People team, and come with us on a journey as we transform the way we do HR. Our team is made up of business partners working with leaders to get the most out of their teams, specialist knowledge in our centres of expertise, and colleague-centric, efficient people services. Our work ranges from making sure that our 150,000+ colleagues are paid on time to attracting brilliant talent to drive our strategy, to unlocking the skills and capability of our colleagues. This is a fast-moving business, and we make sure our policies and rewards keep up with that too. We know flexibility is important and helps you be more productive so there's more choice than ever about where and when you work. When it comes to your development, we'll support your growth in your own unique way. When you join us, you’ll be joining a team that knows just what it means to be happy and engaged, and who makes a real impact across our business.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

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