People Partner - Supply Chain & Logistics
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre - Field Based and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Group HR
Closing date: 06 May 2026
Requisition ID: 400058044
Location
London (preferred) / Manchester or Coventry (considered) + hybrid working
With regular travel to Supply Chain & Logistics sites (predominantly South, with some Midlands/North), time will be split between site visits, occasional Store Support Centre collaboration, and home working.
Given the field-based nature of the role, you will need to hold a UK full driving licence.
About the team
Our Supply Chain & Logistics teams play a critical role in enabling Sainsbury’s to deliver for customers every day, operating at pace across complex, operational environments. The People Partnering team sits at the heart of this division, working closely with senior leaders to shape culture, strengthen leadership capability and drive sustainable performance.
This is an environment where People decisions have wide‑reaching impact. You’ll support teams across distribution and logistics networks, influencing outcomes that improve colleague experience, operational effectiveness and long‑term business performance.
More about the role
As a People Partner, you’ll partner with senior leaders across Supply Chain & Logistics as a trusted and visible advisor, supporting the execution and delivery of the divisional people plan. You’ll translate business priorities into clear, data‑led people actions, acting as a conduit into Centres of Expertise to ensure the right capability is engaged to solve business challenges.
Day to day, you’ll mobilise and deliver people plans that build leadership capability, enable performance and embed a high‑performance, inclusive culture. This will include supporting organisational effectiveness and design activity, leading or contributing to change and transformation initiatives, and coaching leaders to take ownership of people outcomes. You’ll use people data and business insight to prioritise actions, track progress against agreed measures and ensure people interventions deliver measurable impact.
More about you
You are an experienced People or HR professional, comfortable operating as a senior business partner within fast‑paced, complex operational environments. You bring a commercial mindset and are confident balancing immediate operational priorities with longer‑term people and capability outcomes. You will line manage a team of People Delivery Partners, ensuring delivery and capability across the portfolio.
You build effective, trusted relationships with senior leaders, influence with credibility, and provide appropriate coaching and constructive challenge. You use evidence and data to inform decision‑making, adapt your approach as priorities evolve, and are motivated by creating environments where leaders and colleagues can perform at their best in an inclusive and sustainable way.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience partnering with senior leaders to develop and deliver divisional or functional people plans aligned to business priorities.
- Proven experience leading teams and leading/supporting people‑impacting change or transformation initiatives within complex operational environments.
- Evidence of using people data and insight to inform decisions and track progress against agreed outcomes and measures.
- Demonstratable experience working collaboratively with Centres of Expertise or specialist teams to deliver joined‑up people solutions
- CIPD Level 7 or equivalent demonstrable people partnering knowledge, skills and experience.
- Hold a full UK driving licence
Desirable criteria - Experience operating in a unionised / employee relations‑intensive setting
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).
