Senior People Partner (Tech and Analytics)

The Senior People Partner will collaborate with Senior leaders across Argos, acting as a trusted, visible advisor and business partner - supporting the execution and delivery of functional plans, set out by the Senior Leadership team. The role will act as a conduit into our centres of expertise, ensuring the correct expertise is engaged to solve business problems.  

The role will drive our culture, enable performance, coach managers, and deliver a tangible return on investment by building regional or divisional capability, maximising capacity, and cost efficiency to deliver customer outcomes and shareholder value.  

• Works with the Director of People Partnering, ER and Unions, to build regional or divisional specific people plans that are future focused and support specific / bespoke functional people challenges, covering capacity, capability, and productivity, delivering value for the business.
• Assist in maintaining organisational effectiveness and design, utilising the support of the Centre of Expertise where relevant.
• Implement or solve regional or divisional workforce opportunities, ensuring they deliver value driven outcomes.
• Identify and utilise key people data and business performance metrics to incrementally improve our colleague experience within your specific region or division.  
• Continually feedback and collaborate with your peers to build broad solutions to business problems, ensuring that the team operates as efficiently as possible.  
• Drive individual and regional or divisional performance by influencing and coaching business partners, holding them to account for their own personal performance and the performance of their teams.  
• Provide robust and fact base feedback to support the growth and personal development of the individuals you partner with.  
• Hold the senior leaders and their teams to account for creating an inclusive and engaged culture, through coaching and challenge.  
• Coach and support the senior leaders you partner to develop their own personal development plans.  
• Support business managers to have difficult conversations through expert coaching and facilitation.    
• Support the development of plans to deliver and execute change initiatives across your region or division, ensuring that change is embedded and sustained through behaviour change, leadership or culture.  
• Execute and deliver on all people changes/interventions, either driven by the divisional / regional people plan or centrally driven in collaboration with other people functions (where relevant).  
• Support regional / divisions to drive the cultural changes identified to support the delivery of our strategy.  
• Lead by example, living and demonstrating our Argos Performance Expectations, and coaching others to do the same.  
• Build effective relationships with business stakeholders, peer group and CoE’s, to enable delivery of regional and divisional people plans.  
• Works effectively with others to drive efficiencies or economy of scales within our model – “Country before club” mentality, minimising duplication and driving consistency across division.  
• Support continual listening from the region / division and share insight into the CoE’s to support them to ensure their plans deliver the items that will add the most value to the business.  
• Provide support to more junior members of the team, through feedback, coaching and advice.  
• Shares best practice and drive a continuous improvement mindset, with peer group and outside of the region / division.  

• Proven track record as a People / HR Business Partner in fast-paced, complex, commercial organisations.  
• Relevant combination of people partnering knowledge skills and experience or CIPD Level 5.
• Experience of creating and delivering people plans in partnerships with CoE’s, leading delivery through cross functional teams.  
• Strong influencing, partnering and relationship building skills, working with senior leaders and stakeholders across the business to build trusted relationships.
• Talent management experience.  
• Experience of enabling and delivering significant business change / transformation. 
• Strong data skills, able to identify / analyse and draw insight from data to help inform decision making. 
• Organisational design / effectiveness experience in the context of a business partnering role.