Career Opportunities: Senior People Partner - Stores 2y Fixed Term (973331)

Requisition ID 973331 - Posted - New Zealand - Fixed-term Full-time - Culture and People

Strategic, HR Business Partnering across multi site retail supermarkets

Focus on enabling business strategies through people outcomes

Agile way of working, truly flexible work arrangements and multiple benefits

Ready to make an impact? We are!

This is an exceptional opportunity to further build your experience with one of New Zealand's largest employers. As part of our high performing team you'll be joining a fast-paced, dynamic organisation where we are proud of our customer centricity and our ability to make a real difference for our teams within a complex, large-scale, matrix environment. Responsible for end to end people partnering across leaders and teams, you will play a key role in our 'Team First' approach to business partnering, supporting simplification of the way we work, and critically, value creation through delivering effective people solutions.

About the Role Mō te Tūranga

As a trusted People Experience Partner (Senior People Partner), you will be responsible for developing the next generation retailers and leaders. You will deliver best in class people experiences, leverage Group-wide people initiatives, and drive sustainable change outcomes as we continue our transformation journey. Working with Stores across the South Island, you will be hands-on in managing a broad set of relationships and will be accountable for people outcomes across the region you support.

Key responsibilities include:

Strategic HR Business Partner for stores across the South Island

Establishing great relationships with key stakeholders to allow you to partner across the people model to deliver outcomes

Implementing HR team objectives aligned to relevant HR people strategy for your Zone

Shape data-led people priorities that underpin our Business Strategies, partnering across the people model to deliver outcomes

Building team connection to Purpose & Business Strategies through shaping team narrative & engagement plans

Managing people risk through the development of risk mitigation strategies & monitoring key controls within the Business

You'll have proven generalist experience, ideally gained within a multi-site, retail environment where your professional nous, strong relationship and engagement skills, and ability to apply and adapt people solutions that enable strategy, stand out. Previous experience in managing change, a practicable understanding of NZ employment legislation, and coaching and supporting a wide range of store leaders, is key. Previous exposure to delivering People solutions in an agile environment is advantageous, but not critical.

Due to several internal moves and promotions, we have additional Senior HR BP opportunities within our ecosystem and Primary Connect (Supply Chain) teams. If your experience aligns more with those fields, feel free to check out those vacancies!

Genuine flexibility in how and where you work

Tools of the trade provided

Ongoing development within an ANZ team and access to COE/specialist career opportunities

Grocery discount card and discounted online shopping delivery

Banking and insurance (health, life etc) discounts

Global and local career opportunities

Working with Woolworths NZ Me mahi tahi tatou ki Woolworths NZ

With over 194 stores and 21,000 team members across Aotearoa, we've made it our mission to make Kiwi lives a little better every day.

We're friendly, down-to-earth, and energetic - we work hard but we have a great time doing it, and we love what we do. There is plenty of scope for new ideas, lots of room for you to add value, and importantly, you'll be working with a business that touches the lives of three million New Zealanders a week.

Come as you are Nau mai, whakatau mai

We're an equal opportunity employer and are committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all.

If you're smart and good at what you do, let's work together Me mahi tahi tatou