Sainsbury's
Senior People Partner - People and Corp Affairs, Corp Services
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Location
This is a hybrid role - London Store Support Centre (approx. 2 days per week) and home
Why join us
Our People Partner will partner with Senior leaders in HR, Corporate Affairs and Corporate Services 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 senior leaders in HR, Corporate Affairs and Corporate Services 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.
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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 of partnering with senior leaders and stakeholders in fast-paced, complex commercial organisations. With your expertise in creating and delivering people plans (ideally with a CIPD Level 5 + qualification) and 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 at analysing data and drawing insights from data to inform strategic decisions. With your deep understanding of organisational design and effectiveness, you contribute to shaping effective business partnerships.
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Essential Criteria
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Demonstrable track record operating as a Senior People/HR Business Partner within a People and/or Corporate Services function in a complex commercial environment, working in close partnership with Centres of Expertise.
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Proven ability to partner with and influence senior stakeholders (PLT & SLT), to deliver people and organisational outcomes
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Evidenced analytical capability, with the ability to interpret people and business data to diagnose issues, inform decisions and implement practical solutions that deliver measurable outcomes
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Evidenced track record of supporting organisational change and delivering people elements of transformation programmes
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Broad, applied knowledge across core people disciplines, including talent, performance, organisational design and employee relations.
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Proven capability to coach leaders to build capability and improve performance
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