Head of Supply Chain Transformation

400063013

FULL_TIME

Managerial

Permanent

London Store Support Centre and Home, Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd 33 Charterhouse Street, London Greater London, EC1M 6HA

Competitive Plus Benefits

We believe in providing meaningful work and achieving a real work/life balance. Here, you'll find both. Our Supply Chain team is the engine room for getting thousands of products from farms and factories to our millions of customers every day. We leverage insight and data to anticipate customer needs, ensuring they get what they want, when they need it. You'll be part of a team that is data-driven and judgement-focused, always the first to identify and address any issues or ambiguities. A culture of collaboration, customer obsession, and continuous improvement drives us to deliver market-leading product availability and operational excellence, and fuels our innovation. Our Supply Chain team calls for people who champion change, are customer-obsessed, data-driven, and excel at collaborating and communicating effectively - because those people can go a very long way.

In a nutshell The Head of Supply Chain Transformation is a leadership role within the Supply Chain division. This role is pivotal to shaping and delivering the strategic transformation of Sainsbury’s supply chain across all brands and channels. It is accountable for leading the end-to-end Supply Chain transformation strategy, driving business change delivery, and ensuring cross-functional alignment.   What you need to do <ul> <li>Drive a highly analytical and data driven approach to the delivery of change and improvement across our supply chain. </li> <li>Define and lead the transformation roadmap, including future supply chain capabilities.</li> <li>Own and execute the business change, including impact assessments, building capability, and key stakeholders.</li> <li>Oversee delivery of complex, cross-functional projects, ensuring alignment with business cases and measurable outcomes.</li> <li>Build market-leading supply chain capabilities and operating models to unlock competitive advantage.</li> <li>Identify critical dependencies and risks, ensuring early visibility and mitigation planning.</li> </ul> Essential <ul> <li>Deep understanding of supply chain operations, ideally within UK retail.</li> <li>Strong strategic thinking and ability to simplify complex problems.</li> <li>Highly analytical and data driven, with the technical skill to own or lead analytical deep dives.</li> <li>Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.</li> <li>Proven experience in project and change management.</li> <li>Commercial acumen with a focus on cost optimisation and business case development.</li> </ul> Desirable <ul> <li>Experience in shaping and delivering change programmes.</li> <li>Ability to connect the dots across multiple projects and functions.</li> <li>Innovative mindset with a pragmatic approach to implementation.</li> </ul> What you need to show <ul> <li>Strong organisational skills and attention to detail </li> <li>Ownership and the ability to lead numerous projects and lead a large cross functional team</li> <li>Analytical and data driven approach define opportunities, and drive metric outpefromance</li> <li>Confidence in communicating with stakeholders across different levels and functions.</li> <li>Ability to prioritise tasks and manage time effectively in a fast-paced environment.</li> <li>A proactive mindset with a willingness to take ownership and follow through on actions.</li> <li>Familiarity with project management tools and reporting formats.</li> <li>Commitment to continuous improvement and supporting team collaboration.</li> </ul>   Support we will provide <ul> <li>Access to personal development tools e.g., Bitesize talks, online self-development tools, internal mentoring  </li> <li>Project Managers, Change Managers and wider Tech PMO team</li> </ul>

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 65% of salary, depending on how we perform (in cash and shares). 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, 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. You'll also receive a company car cash allowance unless you are going to travel 10,000 business miles in your role, then you'll be able to choose a car. 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).

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Head of Supply Chain Transformation

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Supply Chain & Logistics
Closing date: 18 June 2026
Requisition ID: 400063013

In a nutshell

The Head of Supply Chain Transformation is a leadership role within the Supply Chain division. This role is pivotal to shaping and delivering the strategic transformation of Sainsbury’s supply chain across all brands and channels. It is accountable for leading the end-to-end Supply Chain transformation strategy, driving business change delivery, and ensuring cross-functional alignment.

What you need to do

Drive a highly analytical and data driven approach to the delivery of change and improvement across our supply chain.
Define and lead the transformation roadmap, including future supply chain capabilities.
Own and execute the business change, including impact assessments, building capability, and key stakeholders.
Oversee delivery of complex, cross-functional projects, ensuring alignment with business cases and measurable outcomes.
Build market-leading supply chain capabilities and operating models to unlock competitive advantage.
Identify critical dependencies and risks, ensuring early visibility and mitigation planning.

Essential

Deep understanding of supply chain operations, ideally within UK retail.
Strong strategic thinking and ability to simplify complex problems.
Highly analytical and data driven, with the technical skill to own or lead analytical deep dives.
Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Proven experience in project and change management.
Commercial acumen with a focus on cost optimisation and business case development.

Desirable

Experience in shaping and delivering change programmes.
Ability to connect the dots across multiple projects and functions.
Innovative mindset with a pragmatic approach to implementation.

What you need to show

Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
Ownership and the ability to lead numerous projects and lead a large cross functional team
Analytical and data driven approach define opportunities, and drive metric outpefromance
Confidence in communicating with stakeholders across different levels and functions.
Ability to prioritise tasks and manage time effectively in a fast-paced environment.
A proactive mindset with a willingness to take ownership and follow through on actions.
Familiarity with project management tools and reporting formats.
Commitment to continuous improvement and supporting team collaboration.

Support we will provide

Access to personal development tools e.g., Bitesize talks, online self-development tools, internal mentoring
Project Managers, Change Managers and wider Tech PMO team

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 65% of salary, depending on how we perform (in cash and shares).

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, 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. You'll also receive a company car cash allowance unless you are going to travel 10,000 business miles in your role, then you'll be able to choose a car. 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).

Head of Supply Chain Transformation

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA Contract type: Permanent Business area: Supply Chain & Logistics Closing date: 18 June 2026 Requisition ID: 400063013

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Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Supply Chain & Logistics
Closing date: 18 June 2026
Requisition ID: 400063013