Senior People Partner (Tech and Analytics)

Sainsbury's is hiring a Senior People Partner (Tech and Analytics) for a remote role open to applicants in United Kingdom. Level rates it ; you can apply on Sainsbury's.

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Drive regional people plans, organizational effectiveness, and change initiatives as a Senior People Partner for tech and analytics.

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Why this role matters

The Senior People Partner will collaborate with Senior leaders across Argos, acting as a trusted, visible advisor and business partner - supporting the execution and delivery of functional plans, set out by the Senior Leadership team. The role will act as a conduit into our centres of expertise, ensuring the correct expertise is engaged to solve business problems.

The role will drive our culture, enable performance, coach managers, and deliver a tangible return on investment by building regional or divisional capability, maximising capacity, and cost efficiency to deliver customer outcomes and shareholder value.

London or Coventry (Hybrid)

What I am accountable for

Works with the Director of People Partnering, ER and Unions, to build regional or divisional specific people plans that are future focused and support specific / bespoke functional people challenges, covering capacity, capability, and productivity, delivering value for the business.
Assist in maintaining organisational effectiveness and design, utilising the support of the Centre of Expertise where relevant.
Implement or solve regional or divisional workforce opportunities, ensuring they deliver value driven outcomes.
Identify and utilise key people data and business performance metrics to incrementally improve our colleague experience within your specific region or division.
Continually feedback and collaborate with your peers to build broad solutions to business problems, ensuring that the team operates as efficiently as possible.
Drive individual and regional or divisional performance by influencing and coaching business partners, holding them to account for their own personal performance and the performance of their teams.
Provide robust and fact base feedback to support the growth and personal development of the individuals you partner with.
Hold the senior leaders and their teams to account for creating an inclusive and engaged culture, through coaching and challenge.
Coach and support the senior leaders you partner to develop their own personal development plans.
Support business managers to have difficult conversations through expert coaching and facilitation.
Support the development of plans to deliver and execute change initiatives across your region or division, ensuring that change is embedded and sustained through behaviour change, leadership or culture.
Execute and deliver on all people changes/interventions, either driven by the divisional / regional people plan or centrally driven in collaboration with other people functions (where relevant).
Support regional / divisions to drive the cultural changes identified to support the delivery of our strategy.
Lead by example, living and demonstrating our Argos Performance Expectations, and coaching others to do the same.
Build effective relationships with business stakeholders, peer group and CoE’s, to enable delivery of regional and divisional people plans.
Works effectively with others to drive efficiencies or economy of scales within our model – “Country before club” mentality, minimising duplication and driving consistency across division.
Support continual listening from the region / division and share insight into the CoE’s to support them to ensure their plans deliver the items that will add the most value to the business.
Provide support to more junior members of the team, through feedback, coaching and advice.
Shares best practice and drive a continuous improvement mindset, with peer group and outside of the region / division.

What I need to know

Proven track record as a People / HR Business Partner in fast-paced, complex, commercial organisations.
Relevant combination of people partnering knowledge skills and experience or CIPD Level 5.
Experience of creating and delivering people plans in partnerships with CoE’s, leading delivery through cross functional teams.
Strong influencing, partnering and relationship building skills, working with senior leaders and stakeholders across the business to build trusted relationships.
Talent management experience.
Experience of enabling and delivering significant business change / transformation.
Strong data skills, able to identify / analyse and draw insight from data to help inform decision making.
Organisational design / effectiveness experience in the context of a business partnering role.

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 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)."

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Key facts

Senior People Partner (Tech and Analytics) is an open job at Sainsbury's.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in London, London, United Kingdom and is marked remote.
The job was posted on November 3, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Sainsbury's. Apply on Sainsbury's

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