Transformation Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Finance & Business Development
Closing date: 30 January 2026
Requisition ID: 400046660
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not handling projects, we’re helping all corners of the wider group with what they’re trying to achieve. And around here, you can see the results of your work as soon as you walk into a store, which gives you a real sense of purpose and responsibility. Better still, the team around you will listen to your ideas and opinions, and you’ll have every chance to try something new. The sheer scale and complexity of our set-up means there’s always something else around the corner, and we’ll help and support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen here.
Location: Hybrid Working – London Office, approximately 2 days per week
About the team
Our Transformation team plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of our business. We take company-wide strategy and translate it into meaningful, high-impact programmes of work that create better experiences for our customers and stronger outcomes for our colleagues.
Working collaboratively with teams across the organisation, we accelerate change, drive innovation, and ensure our business is set up to compete sustainably and profitably. If you’re excited by large-scale problem solving, cross-functional working, and delivering meaningful change, this is the team for you.
More about the role
Working as a Transformation Manager within our Operating Model team, you will be part of an agile team established to accelerate and drive Enterprise Operating Model transformation from strategy to execution. You will bring together the right people and expertise from across the business, guiding programmes from early ideation through to implementation. This includes shaping the approach, defining clear outcomes, establishing effective ways of working, and ensuring delivery at pace.
You’ll use an outcome-centric, hypothesis-led approach to problem solving, driving clarity in ambiguous situations and generating practical recommendations. The role involves leading complex programmes end-to-end—scoping, securing engagement and investment, coordinating trials, iterating based on insight, and embedding sustainable change. You’ll also support governance processes, build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, and champion a transformation mindset across the organisation.
More about you
You bring a track record of working on complex change programmes and influencing stakeholders across multiple business areas. You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity, using data and insight to frame problems, explore hypotheses, and guide business decisions. Your communication skills enable you to develop clear narratives, present structured recommendations, and bring teams along on a journey of change.
You are naturally collaborative, well‑organised, and able to create high-performing working environments that support delivery at pace. You model curiosity, connected thinking, and positive leadership behaviours—including our valued behaviours of owning your work, improving things for customers, and showing care and respect in all interactions.
Essential criteria
- Evidence of effective cross-functional collaboration on large-scale programmes or projects, including third-party and offshore managed services.
- Proven ability to deliver measurable outcomes and impact, such as significant financial gains or strategic advancements.
- Experience shaping and implementing major change projects or programmes from initiation through to delivery and embedment
- Demonstrated capacity to utilise data, insights, and external perspectives to inform decisions and guide programme direction.
- Ability to establish effective programme ways of working that support rapid, high-quality delivery across multiple teams
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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 healthcare. 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 eligibility criteria may apply).
