Senior People Partner - People and Corp Affairs, Corp Services

Senior People Partner - People and Corp Affairs, Corp Services Salary:
Competitive Plus Benefits

Location:

London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA

Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
People
Closing date: 14 August 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.

Location

This is a hybrid role - London Store Support Centre (approx. 2 days per week) and home

Our People Partner will partner with Senior leaders in HR, Corporate Affairs and Corporate Services as a trusted, visible advisor and business partner, supporting the execution and delivery of functional or geographic plans, set out by the Senior Leadership team. You will be a conduit into our centres of excellence, 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.

What you'll do

You will play a vital role in partnering with senior leaders in HR, Corporate Affairs and Corporate Services to provide trusted advisory support and guidance. Working collaboratively with the cross-functional teams and centres of excellence, you develop and deliver strategic regional or divisional people plans that address specific functional people challenges. Your responsibilities will involve mobilising and delivering against these plans, driving a high-performance culture through coaching and influencing leaders, executing and embedding business change initiatives, and fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.

Additionally, you will analyse people data to inform decision-making, track progress against targets and measures, and actively contribute to driving positive metrics related to engagement, talent, performance, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Your role will be essential in driving business performance and ensuring that the organisation is equipped with the right capabilities to succeed.

Who you are

You are a highly experienced and strategic HR professional with a proven track record of partnering with senior leaders and stakeholders in fast-paced, complex commercial organisations. With your your expertise in creating and delivering people plans (ideally with a CIPD Level 5 + qualification) and in collaboration with Centres of Excellence, you have strong influencing and relationship-building skills. Your talent management experience, coupled with your ability to enable and drive business change and transformation, adds value to the organisation.

As a data-driven decision-maker, you excel at analysing data and drawing insights from data to inform strategic decisions. With your deep understanding of organisational design and effectiveness, you contribute to shaping effective business partnerships.

• Demonstrable track record operating as a Senior People/HR Business Partner within a People and/or Corporate Services function in a complex commercial environment, working in close partnership with Centres of Expertise.
• Proven ability to partner with and influence senior stakeholders (PLT & SLT), to deliver people and organisational outcomes
• Evidenced analytical capability, with the ability to interpret people and business data to diagnose issues, inform decisions and implement practical solutions that deliver measurable outcomes
• Evidenced track record of supporting…