Senior People Partner - Finance

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

Hybrid - London Store Support Centre + home (approximately 2 days per week, office-based)

Why join us

Joining Sainsbury’s as a Senior People Partner – Finance means playing a key role in delivering the Finance people agenda, working closely with senior leaders to shape capability, culture and performance.

You’ll translate strategic priorities into practical people interventions—supporting organisational effectiveness, improving engagement and performance, and helping teams deliver their goals. This is a role where you’ll combine insight, relationship-building and delivery to make a tangible difference.

What you'll do

As a Senior People Partner, you will support the Head of People Partnering to deliver the Finance people plan across defined areas of the function.

You’ll use data and insight to diagnose people and organisational challenges and translate these into clear, actionable interventions. You’ll work closely with leaders to support the delivery of people priorities, including performance, talent, and engagement, and to track progress against key people metrics.

A key part of the role is building leadership capability—coaching and supporting leaders to strengthen performance, develop their teams and manage people matters effectively. You’ll also provide practical insight and challenge to support decisions on people, structure and culture.

You will support organisational design and the delivery of transformation activity, ensuring people elements of change are effectively implemented and sustained. Alongside this, you’ll support talent and succession activity within your areas, helping identify and develop key talent.

Working closely with Centres of Expertise and the wider People team, you’ll ensure a joined-up approach that enables Finance teams to deliver their priorities

Who you are

You’re an experienced People Partner with a strong track record of operating in a complex commercial environment, previously partnering either within the Finance, Corporate, or Commercial functions

You are confident working with senior leaders, using data and insight to inform decisions and support the delivery of people priorities. You bring strong relationship-building skills and are comfortable both supporting and constructively challenging leaders.

You have experience coaching leaders to improve capability and performance and are confident working across a broad range of people topics, including talent, organisational design and employee relations. You are also comfortable supporting change and transformation activities.

Essential Criteria

• Demonstrable track record operating as a People / HR Business Partner in a complex commercial environment, working in partnership with centres of expertise
• Proven ability to partner with and influence senior stakeholders 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
• Track record of supporting organisational change and delivering people elements of transformation programmes
• Broad, applied knowledge across core people disciplines, including talent, performance, organisational design and employee relations
• Proven capability to coach leaders to build capability and improve performance

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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).