People Partner - South London

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

In this role I am in charge of partnering with Store Directors, Area Managers or Centre Managers to drive delivery of our business priorities and the local people agenda. Winning
together through partnering and deploying solutions that drive our talent, culture & capability ambitions to enhance the colleague experience.

• Staying curious and keeping up to date with People Practices both internally and externally

Partnering the business to:

• Create and build credible and trusted partnerships to drive our talent, culture & capability ambitions; contributing with purpose, challenging & encouraging diversity of thought
• Aligning people plan and operational priorities to enhance colleague experience, drive high performance culture & increase business output
• Being the voice of the business; feeding back insights, demand & requirements to other People Teams & via NWTs to continuously shape & enhance the colleague experience
• Partner leadership teams and talent & resource leads to drive local talent agenda and develop high potential talent with bespoke interventions.
• Looking ahead to forecast supply and demand in your geographical area; creating diverse and inclusive succession planning and talent pools.
• Gather and use people data to draw insight, understand requirements and inform judgement, decision making & action planning at local level

Deploying the People Plan by:

• Lead and deploy people plan priorities in your area and advocate for new ways of working and technologies.
• Lead and deploy core people cycle activities.
• Deployment of people impacting change projects into stores or DCs
• Expert support on local sensitive wellness cases or people crisis situations
• Provide expert support and guidance during the recruitment journey to ensure we are operationally set up for success and legally compliant
• Identifying scalable capability needs for your area and inputting to the Capability POE
• Distribution: Working in line with local site agreements, coaching managers on policy variations and identifying & supporting standardisation and simplification for the future
• Distribution: Work with local unions reps and officials on BAU and local activity
•  Retail: Fostering a positive working relationship with union reps and understanding 

• Strong communication skills with proven track record of demonstrating
• Breadth of People experience including D&I, talent, capability & wellbeing credibility with & influencing stakeholders at all levels.
• Broad understanding of our business, strategy and priorities
• Understanding of emerging People trends & external landscape
• CIPD qualification or equivalent desirable
• Ability to leverage data & draw insight to inform business decisions

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We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.