People Strategy Manager

What’s in it for you

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• 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

About the role

The People Strategy Manager plays a pivotal role in shaping, delivering and embedding Tesco’s Group People Strategy. 

The role is accountable for translating strategic priorities into a clear, sequenced strategic plan and ensuring our activities continue to drive the desired strategic outcomes, critical to achieving our People ambitions. 

Working closely with senior leader and colleagues across the People function, the role ensures our strategic priorities are actionable, understood and progressed at pace

Please note: If you are applying for a Secondment opportunity, your benefits, including bonus, will continue to align to your current role, for further information please refer to the Secondment policy.

You will be responsible for

• Translate strategic priorities into a clear set of business outcomes, ensuring each element contributes directly to the delivery of the People Strategy
• Lead delivery of critical People Strategy workstreams, ensuring strategic alignment and the work delivers it’s intended outcomes
• Provide clear recommendations, insights and updates to the People Leadership Team to drive effective decision -making.
• Bring external insight, workforce trends and best practice thinking to the strategic initiatives.
• Work closely with People Governance & Planning, and Portfolio planning teams to ensure the strategic plan is sequenced, resourced and integrated into wider People plans
• Maintain visibility of operating model dependencies, priorities and constraints to support smooth and effective delivery across the function by enhancing connectivity
• Build understanding and ownership of the strategy across the People function through targeted engagement, storytelling and structured updates
• Ensure the People Strategy remains forward-looking, commercially relevant and aligned to the future needs of the business and our colleagues
• Track progress and identify where intervention, escalation or reprioritisation is required to protect delivery of strategy-critical work.
• Lead the evolution of the People function productivity through driving effective ways of working, innovation and greater operating model connectivity.

You will need

• Experience in strategic HR, people strategy, organisational design, or transformation roles.
• Proven ability to lead and deliver work that is strategically critical and complex.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to simplify complexity.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skill with senior leaders.
• Ability to deliver through others, manage dependencies and drive outcomes across large, matrixed teams.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling narratives including business cases and strategic proposals.

Desirable

• Understanding of workforce planning, talent, skills and digital colleague experience agendas

About us

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

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