People Partner - Finance

Job description

Why join us

Now is a great time to be joining our business! We have recently launched our new business purpose and “Next Level’’ strategy, giving us laser sharp focus for delivery.

You’ll also be joining a newly restructured 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.

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, with high levels of visibility partnering senior leaders within our Finance function including exposure to the CFO, helping shape high level strategic people decisions. You’ll be responsible for driving our talent and culture workstream as part of our Finance vision, and executing on the delivery of the People Plan, acting as conduit into our centres of excellence, ensuring the right expertise is engaged to solve business problems.

As People Partner you will drive our culture, enable performance, coach managers, and deliver a tangible return on investment by building divisional capability, maximising capacity, and cost efficiency to deliver business outcomes and shareholder value.

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. This role is essential for 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 large, fast-paced and complex commercial organisations.
• With your expertise in creating and delivering people plans 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 in analysing and drawing insights from data to inform strategic decision-making.
• With your deep understanding of organisational design and change management, you will contribute to shaping effective business operating models.

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).