People Partner - Sales

As our People Partner for Sales, you'll work at the heart of one of the most commercially important parts of our business, partnering senior leaders across Retail, Food service and Venus to build the leadership, capability and culture that drives sustainable growth.

This is a strategic partnering role, not a traditional HR position. You'll influence leadership teams, shape organisational design, develop talent pipelines, lead transformation and ensure our people priorities directly support commercial performance.

If you thrive on building trusted relationships, challenging thinking, driving change and helping leaders unlock the full potential of their teams, we'd love to hear from you.

As this role will be field based, we're open to all locations across the UK.

• Partnering senior commercial leaders to deliver people strategies that support business performance, customer outcomes and sustainable growth.
• Act as a trusted advisor on leadership effectiveness, organisational performance, culture, talent and capability.
• Build high-performing leadership teams that drive accountability, collaboration and operational excellence.
• Challenge and coach leaders to create clarity, raise standards and lead confidently through change.
• Develop future leadership capability through robust succession planning, talent reviews and targeted development initiatives.
• Shape workforce and talent strategies that strengthen commercial capability, customer engagement and sales effectiveness.
• Create opportunities for Retail, Food service and Venus to share best practice, leadership approaches and customer insight, building stronger connections across the wider sales organisation.
• Drive the people aspects of business transformation programmes, helping leaders and colleagues successfully adopt new ways of working.
• Partner the business to embed our CRM platform, building the skills, confidence and behaviours needed to maximise customer insight and sales performance.
• Use people data, performance trends and commercial insight to identify opportunities, inform decision-making and measure impact.
• Champion a culture of collaboration, inclusion, continuous improvement and shared accountability across the sales community.

• Significant experience in a People Partner, HR Business Partner or equivalent role within a complex, fast-paced organisation, preferably a food business within a sales function
• Experience or knowledge embedding technology, CRM or digital capability programmes preferrable salesforce or Microsoft dynamics
• A proven ability to translate business strategy into practical people solutions that improve performance and capability.
• Experience of organisational design, workforce planning, talent management and succession planning, alongside a solid understanding of employment law, employee relations, organisational change, consultation and governance, with the judgement to manage risk while enabling pace.
• Strong coaching and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence and challenge senior leaders constructively creating cultures where people and performance thrive
• Experience using people data and business insight to inform decision-making and drive measurable outcomes.
• High levels of judgement, integrity and discretion when managing sensitive and complex people matters.

Booker is the UK's leading food & drink wholesaler. We are privileged to serve independent retailers, caterers and small businesses, from locations across the country. We operate over 190 cash and carry branches, 8 distribution centres, 5 Best Food Logistics sites, as well as 6 support centre locations across the UK.

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