Stores People Partner – Central Zone (Central & East Midlands)

Overview

As Stores People Partner, you will drive the regional people plan across stores, ensuring consistent execution and supporting leaders to build high-performing teams. You will use data and insights to identify risk stores and implement targeted actions, collaborating with store leadership. You will lead cyclical people activities and support transformation projects, ensuring readiness in stores. This role offers exposure to regional strategy, cross-location collaboration, and a fast-paced, customer-centric environment.

Pay / Benefits

• colleague discount
• pensions scheme
• life cover
• performance-related bonus up to 10%
• annual holiday allowance
• season ticket loans

Responsibilities

• Deliver consistent execution of the regional people plan across all stores in the region
• Support workforce planning, talent and succession planning to ensure the right people with the right skills
• Use data and trends to diagnose risk stores and agree targeted actions to improve performance and engagement
• Carry out sampling and quality checks to ensure consistent implementation of people processes
• Lead cyclical people activities (performance, engagement, talent, succession) and support change projects including transformation
• Build strong partnerships with Store Managers and operational leaders to translate strategic priorities into store-ready actions

Key requirements

• Experience delivering people plans in fast-paced, complex commercial environments
• Proven ability to use people data to inform decisions, track progress, and measure impact
• Experience supporting or implementing people-impacting change projects (change management and communication)
• Ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders and present insights clearly across multiple locations
• Experience planning and executing talent, performance and reward activities in line with processes and timelines
• Experience supporting workforce planning and resource forecasting
• Ability to identify root causes from performance and risk analyses and drive targeted actions
• Experience conducting sampling or quality checks for consistent process implementation

• collaboration
• data interpretation
• communication
• people data analysis
• workforce planning
• change management

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