People Change & Deployment Partner - Retail, Digital & Logistics Change

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.

Joining the team at Sainsbury's as a People Change & Deployment Partner in Retail, Digital, and Logistics presents a unique opportunity to lead and coordinate impactful people change initiatives in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. With a focus on driving operational capacity and business outcomes, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth deployment of transformational projects and products, working collaboratively with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders to drive sustainable change. As a key player in our matrix leadership model, you will have the chance to develop your leadership skills, drive continuous improvement, and make a tangible impact on the frontline environments of one of the UK's leading multi-channel businesses.

As the People Change & Deployment Partner for Retail, Digital, and Logistics at Sainsbury's, your primary responsibility will be to lead and coordinate the planning and deployment of people change and products across the assigned portfolio. You will ensure that all people change initiatives are prioritised, sequenced, and aligned with operational capacity and business outcomes, facilitating a smooth transition of change in frontline environments. Operating within a matrix leadership model, you will work closely with transformation teams, the People function, and senior stakeholders to assess people impact, shape deployment approaches, and drive high-quality, sustainable deployment through coaching and support to the People Change & Deployment Executives.

As a People Change & Deployment Partner for Sainsbury's Retail, Digital, and Logistics Change, you are a seasoned HR professional with a proven track record in leading and implementing people change initiatives within fast-paced and complex organisations. Your strong influencing and partnering skills, coupled with your ability to drive adoption and embed change, enable you to work effectively with senior stakeholders across various functions to ensure smooth deployment of people products and initiatives. With a continuous improvement mindset, leadership experience, and analytical capabilities, you play a crucial role in shaping and delivering sustainable deployment plans that align with operational capacity and business outcomes.

Essential Criteria

• Demonstrable experience operating as a People/HR Business Partner and delivering people‑impacting change within complex, commercial and frontline environments.
• Proven ability to lead end‑to‑end people change deployment, including conducting people impact assessments and translating findings into deployment plans.
• Demonstrable capability to coordinate multiple concurrent change initiatives, managing dependencies, risks and sequencing to protect operational capacity.
• Evidence of partnering and influencing senior stakeholders across Retail, Digital, Logistics and People functions to shape and deliver people change.
• Ability to interpret workforce data and insight to inform deployment decisions, including use of workforce planning, reporting or analytics tools.

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 in‑store 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 as 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).