ROI Regional People Partner
- Team
- Support Functions
- Location
- Dublin 1, Dublin
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Position type
- Full Time
- Salary
- Competitive + Benefits
- Closing date: 22nd April 2026
Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.
This section tells you all you need to know about the position and its responsibilities, outlining everything we hope to see in a successful candidate.
We’re looking for a passionate Regional Learning Partner to join our team and play a pivotal role in developing remarkable people across our retail regions. If you thrive on creating impactful learning experiences, championing inclusive talent pipelines, and driving performance through innovative people practices, this is your opportunity to make a real difference. From bespoke Academy programmes to transformational training initiatives, you’ll be at the heart of empowering our colleagues to grow, succeed, and deliver the magic of M&S every day.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Brilliant Basics
Drive the completion of regional mandatory E Learning to ensure stores are legally compliant.
Leading regional MyWelcome hubs to ensure onboarding consistency and a brilliant business welcome.
Lead the retail induction experiences for all levels, including early careers, apprenticeships, and employability schemes.
Develop Learning plans for all leaners attending the academy in conjunction with the Customer Assistant – Learning and Academy Store Teams.
Custodian of the learning experience – ensuring the Academy principles are robustly adhered to, to deliver an exceptional learning experience for all; monitoring and taking action when needed.
Support all levels of regional talent on learning programmes through regular check ins and ongoing development support.
Line manage and coach the Customer Assistant – Learning, ensuring clear development plans are in place.
Supporting People Transformation
Partner store management teams to deliver the learning and development element of People transformational projects including Store Openings, Closures, and Renewals.
Coordinate the delivery of all transformational technical and behavioural training for the region.
Delivering Local Learning Plan
Champion learning products, policy, and people practice, and use expertise to drive learning initiatives, both technical and behavioural, across the region to support the delivery of the Retail People Plan.
Use multiple sources of data such as MyHR and Power BI to identify regional performance opportunities that could be supported by a learning intervention.
What’s in it for you:
Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.
Everyone’s welcome
We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.
If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
Lead with purpose. Own the outcomes. Raise the bar. This is your store. And your chance to shape the future of M&S. Are you ready for it? Take Your Marks and apply today.
We're at our best when we're close to customers, and for many of us at M&S, that means working in store every day.
To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected. It also means we can solve problems as soon as they arise, learn and grow as a team, build trust, and get closer to our colleagues.
Your voice and your ideas matter here. Our 8 colleague networks are places to find support, listen to each other and encourage debate. You can pitch ideas ‘Straight to Stuart’, our CEO, or get involved in our BIG (Business involvement Group).
You’ll spend 7 days each year helping in store and getting closer to our customers. We also organise Insight Days, so you can learn more about specific business units, like Foods.
Here’s what to expect at each stage of the application process. This can change depending on the role you’ve applied to. If you need any reasonable adjustments made at any stage, let us know and we can help.
Fill in our short application form and hit submit.
Depending on the role, you may be invited to take part in an online assessment. Should you be invited to an online assessment your Talent Acquisition Partner will be more than happy to support you with any questions.
We'll invite you to join us for an interview. This could be remote or in person. Here, we'll ask you some role based technical questions and examine the behaviours we're looking for.
After we’ve decided, we’ll be in touch. If you’ve been successful, we’ll officially invite you to join the team and let you know the next steps.