Commercial Transformation Change Lead
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 18 May 2025
Requisition ID: 302811
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Here, everything in our stores starts out in Food Commercial. Whether it’s the product, proposition, packaging or price, or the fact that something tastes great, our team is responsible for all food items available in store, digitally and on demand. You’ll discover it’s incredibly fast-paced. People here are in it together and not afraid to take risks. They’re enthusiastic too, and their amazing leadership team is right behind them. The knowledge and experience you gain here could set you up for career moves, anywhere else in the business. So, if you’re passionate about food and just as hungry to learn, you’ll fit in perfectly.
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Commercial Transformation Change Lead (Change Manager) means becoming an integral part of a transformative and dynamic team dedicated to delivering exceptional solutions for our customers and commercial colleagues. You will have the opportunity to lead impactful initiatives that drive efficiency and enhance the customer experience across the Commercial Division. Working in a collaborative environment with a focus on innovation and continuous improvement, you will have the autonomy to make a difference, challenge the status quo, and implement cutting-edge change initiatives that have a meaningful impact on the organisation. With a strong emphasis on teamwork, personal development, and driving results, you will be part of a forward-thinking company that values creativity, agility, and collaboration.
What you'll do
You will play a crucial role in supporting the delivery of transformational initiatives across food, general merchandise, and clothing. Working within the Core Commercial Transformation team, you will lead the adoption of SAP functionality and processes to drive efficiency and a world class customer experience to support our ambitious targets. The Commercial Transformation Change Lead will be critical in effectively landing a variety initiatives that integrate, automate and optimise processes and systems across the Commercial Division. Your responsibilities will include providing expert change management methodologies for multiple initiatives, ensuring strong engagement across all stakeholders, developing change readiness frameworks, and proactively identifying and managing risks and dependencies to deliver initiatives at the desired pace. You will report into a Delivery Lead but you will work collaboratively with various departments. With a challenger mind-set you will seek new and improved ways of addressing business challenges and opportunities to drive successful outcomes. You will manage multiple initiatives at any one time and will work in an agile way, adapting to problems, challenges and developing lead edge solutions.
Who you are
As a Commercial Transformation Change Lead at Sainsbury's, you are an experienced professional with a proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale change initiatives with multiple stakeholders and broad impact. With expert knowledge of change management theories and methodologies, SAP expertise, along with strong problem-solving skills and agile mindset, you will have driven transformational initiatives and optimised processes. Your exceptional communication, influencing, and facilitation skills enable you to build strong relationships with a variety of stakeholders at all levels. You’ll be able to work autonomously, with a strong attention to detail and proven skills in prioritisation and organisational skills.
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: 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.
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. 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 additional holiday. 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, pay 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, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
