People Partner - Operations

About the Role
The People Partner will ensure the successful delivery of our people plans, including people development interventions, change / transformation projects and cyclical people activity.

Putting our colleagues first, you'll work with stakeholders to help design, implement and embed a wide variety of people change initiatives and cyclical activity (such as talent reviews, bonus and pay review, peak recruitment), creating a great colleague & line manager experience.

What business impact will I make?

Consistent delivery and seamless execution of people activities that deliver for our customer, colleague
and shareholder:

• Work with relevant stakeholders and People Centres of Expertise to design, implement and help embed the cyclical activity within the people plan, creating a great colleague & line manager experience.
• Consulting and communicating with a variety of stakeholders to gain insight and buy in into cyclical processes.
• Working with your peer group to maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of the wider team in delivery of people plans, successfully delivering these within agreed timelines.
• Help to manage risks and overcome issues that prevent the project/s or work from being successful.
• Analyse data to support development of the people plan / track and monitor progress.
• Provide support as required to organisational effectiveness and design project delivery.

Deliver business change, ways of working and behavioural interventions:

• Working with the People Partners and wider People Team (as appropriate), to develop the change
  management approach / implementation plans to launch and embed people initiatives.
• Drive change through gaining and providing feedback & data insights to improve future people
  initiatives.
• Ensure that the processes are delivered as joined up colleague experiences rather than linear
  programmes of intervention under our key People strategic initiatives.
• Lead by example, living and demonstrating our valued behaviours, and coaching others to do the
  same.
  

Is a team player, influences and collaborates with others, to deliver our plans:

• Build effective relationships with business stakeholders, peer group and CoE’s, to enable delivery of
  divisional and functional people plans.
• Works effectively with others to drive efficiencies or economy of scales within our model – “Country
  before club” mentality, minimising cottage industries and driving consistency across division.
• Support continual listening from the region / function, into the CoE’s.
• Shares best practice and drive a continuous improvement mindset, with peer group and outside of
  the division / function.

What you need to know

• Relevant combination of people partner knowledge skills and experience or CIPD Level 5.
• Own it, takes full accountability for issues through to resolution.
• Make it better, identifies opportunities to make the way we work simpler or looks for ways of improving service in the team. Encourages others to deliver results by making decisions and trying new approaches.
• Be human, strong team working and collaboration skills, working with others to solve business problems, and finding the most effective and efficient ways of delivering.
• Proven track record of delivery in equivalent roles within a fast-paced, complex, commercial organisations.
• Experience of collaboratively delivering people plans.
• Experience tracking and monitoring project, programme or initiative progress, and flagging when things are behind schedule would be advantageous.
• Experience with project management methodology / governance / working in an agile environment.
• Ability to consume and analyse data.
• Learning agility.
• Experience supporting the delivery of people impacting change projects.

Hybrid - London, field-based and Home.

At Argos, we’re a digital-led UK retailer that keeps pushing boundaries to meet every generation with what they want, how and when they want it. As a market leader in general merchandise, serving millions of customers through our website, app, same-day delivery and Click & Collect services, we offer real opportunities to learn, grow and shape your career. With roles spanning Commercial, Buying, Merchandising, Design and Supply Chain, through to Digital, Operations, Customer Experience, Marketing, and People and Transformation, you will work with brilliant colleagues and directly shape how we serve our customers every day. From enabling inspiring choice across our owned brands, including Habitat, Chad Valley and Bush, alongside the world’s biggest brands like Apple, Lego, Xbox and Samsung, to making shopping effortlessly convenient, championing trusted value and accelerating our strategy - Argos is an exciting place to build your future.

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 10% 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. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, 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).