Location
London, covering South & West London areas with regular travel to stores and sites within the region.

Hours
Full Time (hours not specified)

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
By joining Sainsbury’s as a Learning Partner, you will be part of a dynamic regional team dedicated to helping colleagues and managers grow, thrive and deliver outstanding results. You don’t need a People or HR background; what matters most is your ability to build strong relationships, collaborate across the region, and ensure learning is deployed brilliantly in a fast-paced retail environment. You will create a welcoming, consistent and inspiring learning environment that enables colleagues and managers to develop and succeed. Taking ownership of learning deployment across your region, you will ensure every colleague receives a high-quality experience, whether attending induction in a training store, joining virtual sessions, or learning on the job.

Your role includes partnering closely with training stores to shape and deliver exceptional induction and learning programmes for new and existing managers, supporting them with regular check-ins and tailored development conversations. Working collaboratively with Regional Store Directors, Area Managers and People teams, you will help ensure every new manager receives a consistent business welcome and that talent pipelines at all levels are supported through timely development opportunities.

Using data, insight and feedback, you will evaluate how learning is landing across your region, identify performance opportunities, and recommend interventions that make a real difference. You will champion learning products and policies, becoming a trusted expert for store leaders and training store managers, coaching and challenging teams to strengthen people processes and drive high performance.

Your role also involves supporting regional people activity and contributing to key transformational projects such as store openings, closures and refreshes, coordinating the delivery of both technical and behavioural training to ensure change is well supported. At the heart of your work is a commitment to consistency, operational excellence and empowering colleagues to take ownership of their development by fostering a strong, self-serve learning culture across the region.

Experience
Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to connect with colleagues at all levels and support learning in a busy retail operational setting. Confidence delivering messages, guiding groups, or supporting learning, even without formal facilitation experience (full training provided). Experience using insights or data to understand performance or identify improvement opportunities. Ability to follow processes accurately and consistently across multiple stores.

About you
You thrive on building relationships, understanding people, and helping others grow. You enjoy connecting with others, working as part of a regional team, and driving high-quality execution of learning and people processes. You have a curious and forward-thinking mindset, understanding how learning supports store performance and wider business priorities. You value inclusion and create an environment where colleagues feel supported, confident and encouraged to develop. You are organised, proactive and comfortable navigating retail operations to ensure learning lands brilliantly and consistently across your area. You are able to manage multiple priorities across a regional landscape and work collaboratively as part of a team, sharing best practice and contributing to continuous improvement.

Qualifications
There are no formal qualifications required for this role. What matters most is your ability to build relationships, deliver learning consistently, and support colleagues’ development in a fast-paced retail environment. Full facilitation and content training will be provided.