People Partner

Sainsbury's; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a strategic People Partner, where you will collaborate with senior leaders to drive organizational change and enhance performance. This role is pivotal in shaping the culture and capabilities of the business, ensuring alignment with strategic goals. You will leverage data-driven insights to influence decision-making and support a high-performance environment. With a commitment to inclusivity and development, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact while enjoying a range of benefits and a supportive work culture. If you're passionate about people and transformation, this role is for you!

Benefits

Colleague discount

Performance-related bonus up to 20%

Private healthcare

Annual holiday allowance

Flexible working options

Season ticket loans

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a People/HR Business Partner in complex organizations.
• Proven track record in leading significant business change and transformation.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to execute and deliver people plans.
• Drive culture and performance while coaching managers effectively.

Skills

People/HR Business Partnering

Organisational Design

Data Analysis

Change Management

Stakeholder Management

Influencing Skills

Job description

Why join us

Now is a great time to be joining our business! You’ll be joining our People Division, that has adopted a commercially focused People Partnering model to work hand in hand with business divisions - developing and delivering people plans that are integral to achieving our “Next Level” strategy, giving us laser sharp focus for delivery.

We’re on a mission to deliver through our people by developing high performance and driving culture, organisational change and talent development.

What you'll do

This is a senior, strategic People Partner role, where you’ll work with Senior leaders in our People, Corporate Affairs and Corporate Services divisions, as a trusted, visible advisor and business partner, supporting the execution and delivery of functional people plans. You will be a conduit into our Centres of Excellence, ensuring the correct expertise is engaged to solve business problems.

You’ll be a Change Agent, around change initiatives following restructures and business change, as well as cultural / behavioural change amongst leaders. You’ll use data and business insight to support your decisions on approach, and measuring the success of changes implemented. This role is essential for driving business performance and ensuring that the organisation is equipped with the right capabilities to succeed!

As People Partner you’ll drive our culture, enable performance, coach managers, and deliver a tangible return on investment by building capability, maximising capacity, and cost efficiency to deliver customer outcomes and shareholder value.

Using your commercial acumen, you’ll use savvy commercial decision making to have a direct impact on the business’s outcomes, ensuring the decisions you're making add value to the customer.

Who you are

• You are a highly experienced and strategic People/HR Business Partner with a proven track record of partnering with senior leaders and stakeholders in large, fast-paced and complex commercial organisations.
• Your deep understanding of organisational design and experience of determining, enabling and delivering end-to-end significant business change / transformation, adds value to the organisation.
• Understanding of how to manage multiple dependencies across a complex business model, working successfully through conflicting priorities & timelines.
• With your expertise in creating and delivering people plans in collaboration with Centres of Excellence, you have strong influencing and relationship-building skills.
• As a data-driven decision-maker, you excel in analysing and drawing insights from data to inform strategic decision-making, through your recommendations.
• You’ll be curious, proactive and engaging, understanding that the Retail world is intensively fast paced & what this means to ensure effective delivery.
• You’ll 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.

Qualifications

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 save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. 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 up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. 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, salary 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.

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.

Responsibilities

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.