People Partner - Marketing
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Group HR
Closing date: 03 November 2025
Requisition ID: 400028958
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re the first to say we do HR differently here. For a start, we work as business partners and specialists. That’s whether we’re making sure that nearly 180,000 colleagues are paid on time, or that our strategy is helping us attract the right people, put them in the right place, and unlock their talent. This is a fast-moving business and our policies and rewards keep up too. That’s why we’re as flexible as we can be about where and when you work. We’re also flexible about your future. There’s always room to move up or across, if that’s what you want. We really value different perspectives so there’s no one opinion, no single path, and yours is important. What’s certain is that you’ll be joining one of the happiest, most engaged teams in the business.
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 across our Marketing 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 Retail, FMCG or a similarly large, fast-paced, and complex, commercial 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.
- You possess the ability to think strategically in your role, while delivering operational excellence across your divisions.
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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. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
