Change Manager (Supply Chain Transformation)

Job description

Why join us

As part of our Supply Chain Transformation team, you’ll be working in one of the most dynamic areas of Sainsburys, supporting us for the next year in becoming a market leading, innovative retailer who delivers exceptional solutions for our customers and colleagues.
 

The Change Support Manager will be critical in effectively landing a variety of initiatives that integrate, automate, and optimise processes and systems across the Supply Chain & Logistics Division driving efficiency and a world class customer experience to support our ambitious targets. Here you will work in a matrix environment reporting to the Senior Change Manager, and alongside a multi-disciplinary team including Project Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, Learning & Development, and a broad spectrum of other functions including but not limited to Sainsbury’s Tech and our Commercial teams.
 

What you need to do

• Support the Senior Change Manager and Head of Change in delivering the plan, including activities associated with stakeholder analysis, change impact assessment, and the creation of communication materials.
• Can take ownership of your work, and support the rollout of new business processes and/or technology.
• Produce high-quality documents, including presentations, training materials, and written communications.
• Facilitate workshops with impacted stakeholders, including training sessions.
• Be a self-starter, with the ability to engage and motivate Team & internal/external stakeholders
• Develop strong business partnerships with other internal departments.
• Be able to influence at all levels and be credible in engaging stakeholders in project scope and deliverables.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of the processes and systems utilised across the whole Supply Chain function as well as our strategy and business priorities.
• Ensure support of sharing of knowledge across the whole team to feed into succession plans and limit single points of failure.

What you need to know

• 2 – 4 years of experience in specific Change and / or project roles, or Management Consulting.
• Awareness of Change Management and how it supports delivering projects.
• Ability to prepare/deliver succinct and engaging presentations, as well as robust business cases.
• Problem solving capability.
• Excellent facilitation skills.
• Awareness of project management best practices including Agile is essential for this role

Desirable
· Knowledge & understanding of the end-to-end Supply Chain & Logistics process in a retail environment.

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 10% 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. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, 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).