People Delivery Partner - Zone 2

Job description

There are 2 family leave cover (fixed term contract) roles available. Covering Zone 2 (Regions 11-16) including York, Leeds, East Anglia, Hertfordshire, Essex and London borders.

Why join us

As our People Delivery 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 People Partners to help design, implement and embed a wide variety of people change initiatives and cyclical activity.

What you'll do

Your primary responsibility will be to ensure the successful delivery of people plans, including people development interventions, change / transformation projects, and cyclical people activity. Collaborating with stakeholders and the People Centres of Expertise, you will design, implement, and embed cyclical activity within the people plan, aiming 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, region, or function.

Additionally, you will drive business change initiatives, facilitate leadership development programmes whilst supporting talent reviews. With a data driven approach you will analyse functional people data to develop strategic people plans. In this role, your success will be measured by your ability to address people challenges, improve colleague engagement, implement business change initiatives effectively, deliver on people metrics, and contribute to a positive work environment.

Who you are

You are an experienced HR professional with a comprehensive understanding of the complexities of a fast-paced and commercial organisation. With a proven track record of successfully delivering people plans and driving positive change projects, you take full accountability for your work and always strive for continuous improvement. Your strong collaborative skills enable you to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels, finding innovative solutions to business challenges and ensuring the seamless execution of people activities. Your ability to analyse data and track progress, along with your agility to adapt and learn, allows you to make evidence-based decisions and drive positive outcomes for both colleagues and the business as a whole.

#PeopleTeamHiring

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 get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. 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 10% of salary, depending on how we perform. Y

our wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay 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).