Full-time Head of People - People, Corporate Affairs and Corporate Services, Sainsbury's

01Location

Hybrid - London Head Office and Home

02About the team

• Our People Division helps create the leadership, capability and culture needed

to deliver sustainable business performance. In this high-profile partnering

team, you will work across People, Corporate Affairs and Corporate Services,

connecting divisional leaders with specialist People teams to turn business

priorities into focused, practical people plans. It is an opportunity to

influence at the heart of the organisation, helping senior leaders shape

inclusive teams, strengthen capability and deliver change with a positive

colleague experience.

03More about the role

• As Head of People Partnering, you will be the strategic people partner to the
• Chief People Officer, General Legal Counsel & Company Secretary, Corporate

Affairs Director and their leadership teams. You will provide insight,

constructive challenge and guidance across leadership, organisation, talent and

culture, ensuring each area's priorities are supported by a clear people plan

aligned with the wider People strategy.

Day-to-day, you will use people and business data to identify opportunities,

coach senior leaders and shape interventions that improve performance and

organisational effectiveness. You will lead the people aspects of transformation

and organisation design, strengthen succession and development plans for

critical roles, and ensure effective delivery of core people processes. Working

through cross-functional teams and People Centres of Expertise, you will turn

strategy into coordinated delivery while maintaining engagement and performance

through change. You will also lead a People Partner at C4 level.

04More about you

• You are an experienced senior people partner who can connect commercial

priorities with practical people outcomes. You build credible relationships with

executive stakeholders, use evidence to challenge constructively and are

comfortable navigating complex organisations where priorities can evolve

quickly. You can move between strategic thinking and delivery, bringing clarity

to ambiguous issues and creating alignment across leadership teams and

specialist partners.

Your approach is inclusive, collaborative and outcomes-focused. You coach

leaders to improve effectiveness, bring breadth across talent, leadership

development, organisational design and employee relations, and use data to make

clear recommendations. You understand how culture, capability, structure and

colleague experience combine to enable sustainable performance.

05Essential criteria

• Demonstrable experience operating as a senior HR or People Business Partner/
• Head of People within a complex commercial organisation.
• Proven experience partnering with and influencing executive leadership
• stakeholders, including constructively challenging decisions.
• Evidence of creating, owning and delivering people strategies/ strategic
• people plans linked to measurable business or organisational outcomes through
• cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrable experience leading the people elements of organisational change,
• transformation or organisation design while maintaining colleague engagement
• and delivery.
• CIPD Level 7, or an equivalent combination of senior people-partnering
• knowledge, skills and experience, together with evidence of using people and
• business data to inform recommendations.

06RESPONSIBILITIES

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work–life balance. That’s waiting for

you at Sainsbury’s. We’re the first to say we do HR differently here. For a

start, we work as business partners and specialists — whether that’s making sure

nearly 150,000 colleagues are paid on time, or shaping a strategy that helps us

attract the right people, put them in the right place, and unlock their

potential. This is a fast-moving business, and our policies and rewards evolve

with it. That’s why we’re as flexible as we can be about where and when you

work. We’re also flexible about your future. There’s always room to move up or

across, if that’s what you want. We really value different perspectives, so

there’s no one opinion, no single path, and yours matters.

07QUALIFICATIONS

• 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 65% of salary, depending on how we perform (in cash and shares).

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, 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. You'll

also receive a company car cash allowance unless you are going to travel 10,000

business miles in your role, then you'll be able to choose a car. 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 [https://www.sainsburys.jobs] for a range of our

benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).