Head of Org Change & Culture
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type:
Business area: People
Requisition ID: 400068234
Location
London Head Office - Hybrid Working (on average 1-2 days per week in office)
About the Team
Our People Division plays a critical role in shaping colleague experience across Sainsbury’s, ensuring our culture, leadership and ways of working enable us to deliver our business strategy. The Organisational Change & Culture team sits at the centre of transformation, partnering across the business to build enterprise-wide change capability and a culture that supports colleague engagement and performance. This team works closely with senior leaders, including Operating Board stakeholders, to drive meaningful behavioural change and embed a human-centred approach to transformation.
More about the role
As Head of Organisational Change & Culture, you will lead the Change Management and Culture Centres of Expertise, shaping how change is delivered across the organisation. You will be responsible for building Sainsbury’s change maturity and driving a culture of human-centred change, in support of our business Strategy and Transformation portfolio. Your team consists of six Org Change & Culture Managers, operating across Sainsbury’s Group.
Day-to-day, you will own and evolve Sainsbury’s approach to Change Management, ensuring consistency, quality and alignment to strategic priorities while building capability across leaders and colleagues. You will partner with Business Strategy, Planning and Transformation teams to understand change impacts and ensure delivery is sequenced and achievable. You will coach, influence and align Transformation teams and senior leaders to successfully embed change. You will be responsible for owning, developing and delivering the organisation’s culture strategy and culture roadmap, driving desired culture shifts through impactful interventions.
More about you
You bring demonstrable experience leading organisation-wide change in complex environments, with the ability to translate strategy into practical, high-impact interventions. You are comfortable operating at senior levels, influencing and challenging stakeholders while building alignment across diverse teams.
You are an engaging communicator who can simplify complex change into clear, compelling narratives. You build capability in others through coaching and development, and you are motivated by delivering measurable outcomes that embed lasting cultural and behavioural shifts. You thrive in fast-paced environments, showing sound judgement and prioritisation to ensure the right outcomes are delivered.
Essential Criteria
Proven senior experience in Change Management, driving behavioural, leadership and culture change on complex, cross‑functional transformation programmes at scale
Experience leading organisation‑wide culture change in large, complex organisations across multiple business functions
- Evidence of coaching leaders and teams to build Change Management and Culture capability, influencing and aligning senior stakeholders, including executive-level audience
- Experience designing and implementing change frameworks, methodologies and interventions
Proven ability to lead a high performing team, demonstrating strong judgement, decision-making and development to drive team direction and engagement in fast‑paced environments
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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 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 healthcare. 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 eligibility criteria may apply).
