<p><strong>Location</strong></p><p>Hybrid - London Store Support Centre and Home (average is 2 days a week in the office; however, flexibility is required)&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Why join us</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">As our People Partner, you will ensure the successful delivery of our people plans. Putting our colleagues first, you will work with the Head of People Partnering and Senior People Partners to help design, implement, and embed a wide variety of people change initiatives and cyclical activities.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">You’ll join an exciting and varied commercial area at the heart of Sainsbury’s, partnering with teams across Product and Innovation, Commercial Programmes & Operations, Technical, and Future Stores. You’ll have the opportunity to lead a varied portfolio of projects and help shape the People activity through the next three-year cycle. You’ll build relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, bringing your own perspective and influencing how change is delivered across the business.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p><p><strong>What you’ll do&nbsp;</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Your primary responsibility will be to ensure the successful delivery of people plans, including people development interventions, change and transformation projects, and cyclical people activity.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Collaborating with stakeholders and the People Centres of Expertise, you will design, implement, and embed cyclical activity within the people plan to create a great colleague and line manager experience. Working on a portfolio basis, you will prioritise and deploy your expertise to deliver value-adding activities for the division.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">You will build trusted relationships with managers and provide proactive people-partnering support, helping them navigate people-related priorities and challenges within their teams. You will also take ownership of cyclical activities, including supporting talent reviews, performance activities, communications, and associated planning.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Additionally, you will lead business change initiatives, facilitate leadership development programmes and support talent reviews. You will take ownership of a varied portfolio of projects, developing plans and driving activity through from initial scoping to successful delivery.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify;">With a data-driven approach, you will analyse functional people data to identify priorities and contribute to developing strategic people plans. Your success will be measured by your ability to address People challenges, improve colleague engagement, implement business change initiatives effectively, deliver against people metrics and contribute to a positive working environment.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Who you are&nbsp;</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">You are an experienced HR professional with an understanding of the complexities of working within a fast-paced and commercially focused organisation. You have experience in delivering people plans, partnering with stakeholders and supporting positive change.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">You take accountability for your work and can proactively take the initiative on a project, driving it forward from planning through to delivery. You are comfortable representing the People team in stakeholder conversations, bringing a clear perspective, constructively challenging where appropriate and helping the business reach effective decisions.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Your collaborative approach enables you to build effective relationships with stakeholders at different levels, find practical solutions to business challenges and support the seamless delivery of people activity. You can use data and insight to track progress, inform recommendations and make evidence-based decisions.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Agile and open to learning, you can adapt your approach as priorities change and work effectively across a varied portfolio. You combine a sound foundation in HR practice with a proactive and commercially focused approach, enabling you to deliver positive outcomes for colleagues and the wider business.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Essential Criteria&nbsp;</strong></p><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li class="ortl-align-justify"><p style="text-align: justify;">Evidenced experience of partnering with managers or business stakeholders to understand people-related needs and deliver practical, commercially relevant solutions.</p></li><li class="ortl-align-justify"><p style="text-align: justify;">Proven experience of taking ownership of a people initiative, project or programme of activity from initial planning through to implementation and review.</p></li><li class="ortl-align-justify"><p style="text-align: justify;">Working knowledge of core HR practices, such as employee relations, performance management, talent management and organisational change.</p></li><li class="ortl-align-justify"><p style="text-align: justify;">Evidenced ability to build effective working relationships and communicate confidently with stakeholders at different levels, including presenting information, constructively challenging and influencing decisions, alongside the ability to organise and prioritise a varied workload within a People and Commercially driven environment.</p></li></ul><p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Please note, this vacancy may close early if we receive significant interest</p><p style="text-align: justify;">#LI-MY1</p>