Senior People Partner - Technology (2 Year FTC)

Location

Hybrid - with at least three visits to the London Head Office each month

Our People Division helps create the conditions for colleagues and leaders to do their best work. Within Technology, the People Partnering team works alongside Directors, senior leaders, People Centres of Expertise and colleagues across the wider People function to shape people strategies that support business performance, organisational effectiveness and long-term growth.

You’ll join a collaborative team working across a fast-moving and highly matrixed division. This senior role offers the opportunity to influence the strategic Technology people agenda, lead significant organisational and cultural transformation, and ensure the business has the leadership capability, talent and operating model needed for the future.

As Senior People Partner – Technology, you’ll partner Directors and Senior Leadership Team stakeholders as a trusted adviser, translating business priorities into targeted people strategies and plans. You’ll use commercial understanding, people expertise and data-led insight to influence decisions, anticipate workforce requirements and address complex organisational challenges. You’ll also set priorities for the areas you support and lead a People Partner to deliver an aligned and effective service.

Day to day, you’ll lead strategic workforce planning, organisational design and complex change, ensuring transformation is embedded through leadership, culture and sustained behaviour change, all whilst managing senior-level cyclical HR activities. You’ll coach and challenge senior leaders to strengthen performance, accountability, inclusion and engagement, while mobilising specialist expertise across our Centres of Expertise. You’ll connect people and business performance measures, manage organisational and employee relations risk, and drive consistency, simplification and continuous improvement across the division.

You’re an experienced senior People or HR partner who can operate credibly with Directors and senior leadership teams. You connect people strategy to commercial priorities, use evidence to shape decisions and turn complex organisational challenges into focused, deliverable plans. You are comfortable setting direction, making considered recommendations and balancing long-term organisational needs with immediate delivery.

You build trusted relationships while providing constructive challenge and holding leaders to account. You can lead through ambiguity, influence across a matrix and bring together stakeholders with different priorities. You combine strategic thinking with practical delivery, apply sound judgement to organisational and employee-relations risks, and create an inclusive environment in which colleagues and teams can perform. Previous experience within a Technology function is not essential.

To be considered for this role, your application should demonstrate:

• Evidence of operating as a Senior People Partner, Senior HR Business Partner or equivalent, partnering Director or Senior Leadership Team stakeholders within a complex, fast-paced and matrixed organisation.

• Demonstrable experience of developing and delivering a people strategy or strategic people plan that was directly connected to business performance, organisational priorities and measurable outcomes.

• Proven delivery of organisational design, strategic workforce planning or complex workforce transformation, including evidence of how change was implemented and sustained.

• Practical experience of using people data and business performance measures to identify organisational priorities, influence senior-level decisions and evaluate impact.

• Evidence of coaching and constructively challenging senior leaders on performance, leadership, culture, inclusion or organisational risk, including complex employee relations matters.

   

Please be aware that applications may close earlier than the listed end date if we receive a high volume of interest.

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).