Sainsbury's
Stores People Partner - Nottingham/Derby/Lincolnshire
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Why join us
Joining Sainsbury’s as a Stores People Partner means being part of a collaborative, future‑focused People team committed to driving meaningful change across our store estate. You will play a key role in shaping how our people plans come to life in stores, ensuring consistency of execution and supporting leaders to build high‑performing teams. With the opportunity to influence regional people strategy, support effective workforce planning, and continually improve the colleague experience, you’ll be making a tangible impact every day. This role offers challenge, variety, and the chance to grow your career in a fast‑paced, customer‑centric, and people‑driven environment.
What you'll do
As a Stores People Partner at Sainsbury’s, you will be responsible for delivering consistent, high‑quality execution of the people plan across all stores in your region, setting the standard for great people delivery under the leadership of the Regional People Partner. You will support workforce and talent and succession planning to ensure stores have the right people and skills in place, and use data, insight, and trends to identify risk stores, diagnose root causes, and agree targeted actions to improve performance, capability, absence, and engagement. You will review progress against people plans, work closely with store leadership teams to embed agreed actions, and carry out sampling and quality checks to ensure People products and processes are implemented consistently and effectively. Alongside this, you will lead the delivery of cyclical people activities - such as performance, engagement, talent and succession and support people‑impacting change projects including transformation by ensuring strong communication, clear expectations, and operational readiness in stores. By building strong, trusted partnerships with Store Managers, Store People Leads, and operational leaders, you will translate strategic priorities into practical, store‑ready actions that enhance colleague experience, build capability, and drive improved outcomes across your area.
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As a Stores People Partner for Sainsbury's, you are an experienced professional with a proven track record of delivering people plans within fast-paced, complex, commercial organisations. Your ability to collaborate effectively, analyse data, and support the delivery of people-impacting change projects is essential for translating strategic objectives into consistent execution that drives performance, capability, and colleague experience. With a focus on building strong relationships, championing continuous improvement, and driving business transformation, you lead by example and inspire a culture of excellence, always putting colleagues and customers first in every action you take.
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Please note: As this is a regional role, you will be required to travel to stores and sites within your area multiple times per week.
Essential Criteria
- Demonstrable experience delivering people plans and cyclical people activities within a fast-paced, complex, commercial environment.
- Proven experience using people data to inform decisions, identify risk areas, track progress, and measure the impact of interventions.
- Evidence of supporting or implementing people-impacting change projects, including change management and communication.
- Ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders, presenting insight clearly and enabling consistent delivery across multiple locations.
- Experience planning, coordinating, and executing talent, performance, and reward activities in line with organisational processes and timelines.
- Experience supporting workforce planning and resource forecasting activities.
- Ability to review performance and risk stores, identify root causes, and drive targeted actions.
- Experience conducting sampling or quality checks to ensure consistent implementation of people processes or products.
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