Transformation, Risk & Assurance Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Finance & Business Development
Closing date: 01 March 2026
Requisition ID: 400050247
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: London Store Support Centre & Home - colleagues go into the office 1-2 days per week on average.
Why join us
Joining the Internal Audit, Risk, and Operational Resilience team at Sainsbury's offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of driving transformation and ensuring the successful delivery of the Next Level Sainsbury's strategy. As a Transformation, Risk, and Assurance Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the business outcomes through conducting thorough assessments, building relationships with key stakeholders, and providing independent assurance to enhance the effectiveness and sustainability of programme controls. With a focus on continuous improvement and innovation, you will have the chance to contribute to a dynamic environment that values personal development, accountability, and a deep commitment to delivering high-quality audits in a collaborative and supportive setting.
What you'll do
As the Transformation, Risk and Assurance Manager, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the effective delivery of transformation initiatives critical to the Next Level Sainsbury's strategy. Your responsibilities will include leading multiple reviews within the assurance plan, providing real-time support and actionable insights to management during implementation of new processes, and developing recommendations that balance commercial considerations and assurance requirements. You will drive a continual risk focus by applying a flexible assurance framework throughout the programme lifecycle, monitor actions arising from assurance activities, and contribute to the ongoing development of assurance approaches and tools. Building trusted relationships with transformation leaders while maintaining independence, you will produce clear, informative reports for senior leadership decision-making and support the Head of Transformation Assurance in developing a risk-based assurance plan. Your role will be key in contributing to team success through continuous improvement activities and ensuring audits are delivered to budget and quality standards.
Who you are
You are an experienced professional with a proven track record in leading complex transformation programmes and developing strong stakeholder relationships in a fast-paced large business. Your exceptional communication, analytical, and report writing skills, coupled with your ability to apply sound judgement and drive continuous improvement, enable you to deliver high-quality assurance reviews and provide actionable insights to support business change initiatives. With a self-starting attitude, strong commercial acumen, and a commitment to personal development, you play a crucial role in ensuring the effectiveness, sustainability, and risk management of transformational projects within the organisation.
Essential Criteria
- Demonstrable experience delivering or assuring complex transformation programmes within large, fast‑paced organisations, covering technology, people, and process outcomes
- Proven experience leading or contributing to programme assurance, audit, or oversight activities across complex portfolios, including work with Agile or hybrid delivery environments
- Evidence of effective stakeholder management, including building and maintaining working relationships with stakeholders at multiple seniority levels, and communicating programme risks beyond core delivery teams
- Demonstrable capability in analysing programme information and producing clear written reports, including the assessment of risks, controls, and delivery impacts
- Working knowledge of programme controls, delivery methodologies, and good practice in business change, with evidence of applying sound judgement to prioritise work and meet agreed time, cost, and quality expectations
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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).
