Regional People Partner - Northern Ireland

Regional People Partner - Northern Ireland Salary:
Competitive Plus Benefits

Location:

London Store Support Centre - Field Based and Home, London, EC1M 6HA

Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
Group HR
Closing date: 22 March 2026

Requisition :

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.

As a Regional People Partner, you will play a strategically critical role in shaping and delivering the people agenda across your region. You will work closely with senior leaders as a trusted advisor, ensuring our people plans directly support business priorities, regional challenges, and long-term organisational goals. This role is central to driving culture, building capability, and influencing the behaviours and mindsets that enable high performance.

You will be instrumental in connecting operational realities with strategic people ambitions - translating insights from our stores into meaningful interventions that improve colleague experience and business outcomes. Working with the wider People function and Centres of Expertise, you will ensure that people strategies are executed consistently and embedded deeply within the business.

You will spend majority of your time in stores, building relationships, understanding how initiatives are landing and ensuring that people activity is implemented consistently, effectively and with the right level of impact.

In this strategically focused role, you will partner with senior regional leaders to shape the direction of people activity and ensure it directly supports operational and organisational priorities. You will use data, insight and your understanding of the business to diagnose challenges, identify opportunities and design people interventions that strengthen capability and drive performance. You will lead the delivery of all people cycles across your region – performance, reward, talent and succession, ensuring each activity is simple, accessible and aligned to the long-term needs of the business.

You will also provide strategic leadership to a team of Store People Partners, setting clear expectations, enabling their development and ensuring they are equipped to deliver high-quality, consistent people support across the region. You will provide coaching, direction and regular feedback, helping them navigate complex people issues and strengthening their capability so they can support stores with pace and confidence. Through your leadership, you will create a cohesive, high-performing People Partnering community that delivers impactful interventions and provides a consistent colleague and leader experience.

You will play a central role in delivering transformation and change, creating clear, pragmatic plans that help leaders navigate new ways of working and embed cultural and behavioural shifts. You will ensure that change lands effectively by staying close to the operation, engaging leaders at every stage and using colleague feedback to refine and improve delivery. You will influence strategic decision-making by providing insight-led recommendations, advising leaders on organisational capability and helping them translate strategy into practical actions that improve team performance and colleague experience.

You will coach and develop leaders, support talent growth, and strengthen succession pipelines that reflect the future needs of the organisation. You will maintain strong relationships with colleagues, leaders and union representatives, ensuring…