PA to Chief People Officer - 9-month FTC

This is a 9-month Fixed Term Contract/secondment, commencing ideally 5th May 2025.

Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Personal Assistant for our Chief People Officer is a unique opportunity to be at the heart of a major retail organisation, contributing to the smooth operation and success of its People and corporate functions. Working closely with senior leaders, you will play a pivotal role in managing busy schedules, handling correspondence, and ensuring effective communication. By joining our team, you will become part of a supportive and dynamic organisation that values collaboration and offers opportunities for growth and development.

What you'll do
You will play a vital role in providing professional and comprehensive administrative support. Your main responsibilities will include managing and prioritising diaries, ensuring our CPO is well-informed and prepared for their commitments, and handling incoming emails efficiently. You will also be responsible for building a strong network with other executive PAs and Board Directors within the company to coordinate meetings and schedules. Additionally, you may be required to collate and prepare reports or presentation decks, organise events, and make travel arrangements.

Who you are
You are an experienced EA/Personal Assistant who is highly professional and thrives in a fast-paced and complex environment. You possess excellent communication skills and the ability to build relationships and liaise confidently at all levels. You are highly skilled in prioritising and organising workloads, demonstrating a clear sense of initiative and taking ownership of tasks. Confidentiality and discretion are second nature to you, and you maintain a positive and flexible attitude to deliver exceptional support in response to changing priorities. Your attention to detail, proficiency in MS Office, and can-do attitude make you a valuable asset in this high-profile role.

Qualifications
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

1. Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year.
2. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover.
3. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.
4. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday.
5. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, and salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before payday) as well as access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers.
6. And if you ever need it, there is also an employee assistance programme.
7. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

Responsibilities
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re the first to say we do HR differently here. For a start, we work as business partners and specialists. That’s whether we’re making sure that nearly 180,000 colleagues are paid on time, or that our strategy is helping us attract the right people, put them in the right place, and unlock their talent. This is a fast-moving business and our policies and rewards keep up too. That’s why we’re as flexible as we can be about where and when you work. We’re also flexible about your future. There’s always room to move up or across, if that’s what you want. We really value different perspectives so there’s no one opinion, no single path, and yours is important. What’s certain is that you’ll be joining one of the happiest, most engaged teams in the business.