Senior Business Change Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Logistics
Requisition ID: 400018723
Why join us
Joining our Supply Chain & Logistics team at Sainsbury's as a Senior Business Change Manager means being at the forefront of one of the most transformative and ambitious change programmes in the company's history. You'll have the opportunity to lead and drive impactful change initiatives that optimise processes, enhance efficiencies, and elevate the customer experience across our entire supply chain network. Working alongside a diverse and collaborative team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our organisation, while being supported with comprehensive development tools, mentoring networks, and flexible working options to empower your professional growth and success.
What you'll do
Here, you will play a pivotal role in our largest ever Supply Chain Transformation programme, overseeing and driving the successful delivery of large-scale change initiatives to integrate, automate, and optimise processes and systems across the division. Working collaboratively with a diverse team of Change Managers, Project Managers, and other stakeholders, you will define and deliver Change Management methodologies, create high-quality change materials, facilitate workshops with stakeholders at all levels, and provide guidance and support as a subject matter expert in Business Change. Your responsibilities will also include contributing to the strategic direction of the transformation programme, influencing senior stakeholders, managing risks, issues, and dependencies, and fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the team and across the organisation.
Who you are
You are a seasoned professional with a proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale change initiatives within complex multi-stakeholder environments. With your expertise in Change Management theories and methodologies, along with your ability to lead and inspire teams, you play a critical role in driving transformational change and optimising processes to enhance efficiency and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Your strategic mindset, strong communication skills, and collaborative approach enable you to engage stakeholders at all levels, challenge the status quo, and drive innovation to achieve business objectives effectively.
Essential
· 4+ years of experience in specific Change Management roles, or Management Consulting.
· Track record of successfully delivering large scale change initiatives of significant complexity with multiple stakeholders and broad impact across a multiyear programme
· Expert knowledge of Change management theories (e.g. ADKAR/Prosci, Kotter, Lewin etc)
· Programme Management and Lean methodologies.
· Demonstrable experience in delivering end to end change plans from inception through to user adoption
· Line management experience
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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:
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. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
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, and we provide private heathcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme.
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 eligibiity criteria may apply).
