{"id":4310738,"url":"https://alion.io/job/sainsburys-people-partner-operations","title":"People Partner - Operations","company":{"id":2631165,"name":"Sainsbury's","domain":"sainsburys.co.uk","url":"https://alion.io/company/sainsburys-jobs","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":7,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.143,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":9,"computed_at":"2026-11-15T07:52:55Z"}},"role":"HR","role_family":"HR","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-11T09:58:42Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-11","last_verified_at":"2026-11-15T19:11:31Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"About the Role\nThe People Partner will ensure the successful delivery of our people plans, including people development interventions, change / transformation projects and cyclical people activity.\nPutting our colleagues first, you'll work with stakeholders to help design, implement and embed a wide variety of people change initiatives and cyclical activity (such as talent reviews, bonus and pay review, peak recruitment), creating a great colleague & line manager experience.\nWhat business impact will I make?\nConsistent delivery and seamless execution of people activities that deliver for our customer, colleague\nand shareholder:\nWork with relevant stakeholders and People Centres of Expertise to design, implement and help embed the cyclical activity within the people plan, creating a great colleague & line manager experience.\nConsulting and communicating with a variety of stakeholders to gain insight and buy in into cyclical processes. \nWorking with your peer group to maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of the wider team in delivery of people plans, successfully delivering these within agreed timelines.\nHelp to manage risks and overcome issues that prevent the project/s or work from being successful.\nAnalyse data to support development of the people plan / track and monitor progress.\nProvide support as required to organisational effectiveness and design project delivery. \nDeliver business change, ways of working and behavioural interventions:\nWorking with the People Partners and wider People Team (as appropriate), to develop the changemanagement approach / implementation plans to launch and embed people initiatives.\n\nDrive change through gaining and providing feedback & data insights to improve future peopleinitiatives. \n\nEnsure that the processes are delivered as joined up colleague experiences rather than linearprogrammes of intervention under our key People strategic initiatives.\n\nLead by example, living and demonstrating our valued behaviours, and coaching others to do thesame.\n\nIs a team player, influences and collaborates with others, to deliver our plans:\nBuild effective relationships with business stakeholders, peer group and CoE’s, to enable delivery ofdivisional and functional people plans. \n\nWorks effectively with others to drive efficiencies or economy of scales within our model - “Countrybefore club” mentality, minimising cottage industries and driving consistency across division. \n\nSupport continual listening from the region / function, into the CoE’s. \nShares best practice and drive a continuous improvement mindset, with peer group and outside ofthe division / function. \n\nWhat you need to know\nRelevant combination of people partner knowledge skills and experience or CIPD Level 5.\nOwn it, takes full accountability for issues through to resolution.\nMake it better, identifies opportunities to make the way we work simpler or looks for ways of improving service in the team. Encourages others to deliver results by making decisions and trying new approaches. \nBe human, strong team working and collaboration skills, working with others to solve business problems, and finding the most effective and efficient ways of delivering.\nProven track record of delivery in equivalent roles within a fast-paced, complex, commercial organisations.\nExperience of collaboratively delivering people plans.\nExperience tracking and monitoring project, programme or initiative progress, and flagging when things are behind schedule would be advantageous.\nExperience with project management methodology / governance / working in an agile environment. \nAbility to consume and analyse data.\nLearning agility.\nExperience supporting the delivery of people impacting change projects.\nHybrid - London, field-based and Home.\n At Argos, we’re a digital-led UK retailer that keeps pushing boundaries to meet every generation with what they want, how and when they want it. As a market leader in general merchandise, serving millions of customers through our website, app, same-day delivery and Click & Collect services, we offer real opportunities to learn, grow and shape your career. With roles spanning Commercial, Buying, Merchandising, Design and Supply Chain, through to Digital, Operations, Customer Experience, Marketing, and People and Transformation, you will work with brilliant colleagues and directly shape how we serve our customers every day. From enabling inspiring choice across our owned brands, including Habitat, Chad Valley and Bush, alongside the world’s biggest brands like Apple, Lego, Xbox and Samsung, to making shopping effortlessly convenient, championing trusted value and accelerating our strategy - Argos is an exciting place to build your future.\n 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:\nStarting 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 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.\nYour wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. 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. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.\nMoments 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.\nPlease see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).","description_format":"text","description_chars":6493,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Retail & Shop Systems","Online Groceries"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-14T12:05:26Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":75,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.829,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":9,"reasons":["conf:2","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-15T07:52:55Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sainsburys-people-partner-operations","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sainsburys-people-partner-operations.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-15T22:25:12Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":18311,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2631165},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2631165"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsainsburys-people-partner-operations"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsainsburys-people-partner-operations"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsainsburys-people-partner-operations"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/sainsburys-people-partner-operations\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsainsburys-people-partner-operations"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4310738}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"sainsburys.co.uk","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4310738},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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