Sainsbury's
Regional People Partner - Northern Ireland
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Regional People Partner at Sainsbury’s
We offer amazing work to do, with real work-life balance. We do HR differently here—working as business partners and specialists, whether shaping strategy to attract talent, ensure payroll precision for nearly 150,000 colleagues, or adapting our policies and rewards to the changing business. Flexibility is key: where and when you work aligns with real-world demands, and opportunities for growth are continuous—upwards, sideways, or in ways that suit you.
Why Join Us
As a Regional People Partner, you’ll shape and deliver the people strategy across your region. You’ll serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, ensuring our people plans directly inform business priorities, regional challenges, and long-term goals.
- Strategic Partnership: Collate data and insights from stores to craft interventions that enhance colleague experience and business outcomes
- Consistent Execution: Work with the wider People function to embed strategies deeply within Sainsbury’s
- First-Hand Impact: Spend majority of your time in stores, checking the integrity of initiatives, building relationships, and ensuring high impact delivery
What You’ll Do
In this critical strategic role, you’ll:
- Partnership-Focused Leadership: Collaborate with regional leaders to align people activity with operational and organisational priorities
- End-to-End People Ownership: Lead performance, reward, talent, and succession plans, ensuring each cycle is simple, accessible, and strategy-aligned
- Team Coaching & Development:
- Lead a team of Store People Partners with clear expectations, providing feedback and enabling growth to align reflection with impactful store support (pace and confidant development)
- Cultivate a high-performing People Partnering community
- Transformation & Change Excellence:
- Develop pragmatic plans linking leaders to new ways of working, embedding cultural shifts consistently
- Stay close to operations to refine change through colleague feedback and engage leaders at every stage
- Leader & Talent Development: Coach senior staff, support talent pipelines, and ensure succession plans reflect future needs
- Inclusion & Consistency: Champion consistent people activity across your region while integrating colleague voice in strategy
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Who You Are
You bring a strategic, experience-rich approach to people leadership:
- Senior People/HR Business Partner Context: Proven success in fast-paced, complex commercial environments, crafting people strategies that link to long-term business results
- Team Avoidability: Set direction, coach, and build capability for teams of People Partners/HR professionals
- Ensure alignment across multiple stores and stakeholders
- Driving Impact through Insights:
- Connect people activity to organisational strategy fast, with tangible impact
- Diagnose challenges, data-led decision-making, and pace-trusted influence at all levels (commercial aware, credible)
- Navigating Ambiguities: Confident in evolving situations while focusing on long-term strategy and adaptability
Essential Criteria
You’ll need:
- Senior Track Record: Proven record as a People/HR Business Partner, driving high-impact people initiatives across multi-site organisations
- Strategy-to-Execution: Design and implement practical people plans translating strategy across diverse stakeholder groups
- Influencing & Leadership:
- Partner with leadership, challenge constructively, foster cultural shifts rooted in trust
- Capability Cognitive Science: Expertise in talent management, succession planning, and HR development, aligning with growth-partnered transitions
- Identify future workforce needs via traditional and progressive pipelines
- Change Readiness: Head or implement complex organisational change, with clarity-embedded commitment
- Analytical Rigor: Use people metrics, data insight, to:
- Diagnose root causes
- Target opportunities strategically
- Measure intervention efficacy
- Organisational Design: Craft structures, roles, and ways of working aligned with operational needs and long-term capability
- Learning Agility: High curiosity and persistence in dynamic environments, resilient for long-term goals
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Benefits & Support
We’re committed to your purpose, growth, and well-being, offering:
Discounts & Routine Perks:
- 10%–15% discount savings across Sainsbury’s, Argos, TU, and Habitat (on-fleet holiday offers extend benefits further)
- Pensions and life cover protections for your future security
Monetary & Remunerative:
- Bonus opportunities: Up to 20% of base salary (performance-dependent per Sainsbury’s results)
Wellbeing & Resilience:
- Annual holiday allowance + extra (buy additional weeks for flexibility)
- Private healthcare options provision
- Salary flexibility tools:
- Season ticket loans
- Interest-free car loan of up to £10k
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health cash plans
- Salary advance (pre-pay for financial ease)
- Discounts: Access to hundreds of exclusive retail partnerships
- Employee Assistance Programme
Life Moments & Careers:
- Maternity/Adoption Leave: 26 weeks’ pay
- Paternity Leave: 4 weeks’ pay
- Inclusivity: Commitment to diverse perspectives, combined with flexible and developing career pathways
Note: Further benefits documented at www.sainsburys.jobs, subject to length of service/eligibility criteria.
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