Strategic People Partner - Retail and Express

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We’re looking for a Strategic People Partner to join our central People team to support our Retail and Express Business. This role is all about project delivery, insight, planning and cross‑functional collaboration. You’ll support some of our most important people programmes — bringing structure, clarity and pace to initiatives that improve colleague experience, simplify processes, and strengthen business capability.

This is a central based role ideal for someone who is highly organised, analytically confident, commercially aware, and ready to work with senior stakeholders across a complex business.

What You'll Do

• Lead and support workstreams within major people projects (e.g., workforce planning, simplification, organisational change).
• Translate strategy into clear plans, milestones and deliverables.
• Use data and insight to shape decisions and produce high‑quality papers, analysis and updates.
• Work closely with Centres of Excellence (Reward, Talent, ER, OD, Learning) to coordinate and align people solutions.
• Create documentation, reporting packs and governance materials that support project delivery.
• Identify risks, issues and dependencies — and help drive them to resolution.
• Improve people processes and routines by simplifying, standardising and removing friction.

What You'll Bring

• Experience in HR, people operations or project-based roles within a fast-paced environment.
• Strong organisational and planning skills; able to manage multiple priorities with discipline and pace.
• Confident with data, dashboards and structured analysis.
• Natural collaborator, able to work across multiple Centres of Excellence.
• Clear, concise communicator — comfortable engaging senior stakeholders.
• A proactive mindset, with the curiosity and initiative to improve how we work.

Why This Role Matters

You’ll be the engine room behind some of our most important strategic people initiatives — ensuring they land smoothly, deliver measurable impact, and help build a simpler, more consistent colleague experience across the business.

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus

• Company pension up to 7% matched

• Company Car allowance of £5,700

• 15% colleague discount in store and online

• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.

• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated

• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves