Why join us

By joining Sainsbury's as the Head of Organisational Change & Culture, you will have the unique opportunity to drive the changes needed to enable the successful delivery of our strategic outcomes and ambitious business strategy. Collaborating closely with the Business Transformation Team, you’ll have a significant impact on shaping our change management approach and culture change roadmap. With a focus on continuous improvement and a supportive work environment, we offer an exciting and challenging role where you can make a real difference to our organisation and be part of shaping our future success.

What you'll do

You will drive the necessary behavioural, leadership, and cultural changes to enable the delivery of strategic outcomes through the transformation portfolio. Collaborating closely with the Business Transformation Team, you will develop and deliver a culture change roadmap that aligns with the identified cultural shifts required to achieve the business's ambitious strategy. Your role will involve establishing an enterprise-wide change management approach, providing support and coaching to programme leads, and ensuring the successful delivery and sustainability of enterprise and business-wide transformation outcomes.

Additionally, you will work with the People Partnering Teams to enhance their change management capabilities, influence senior leaders to adopt the culture change roadmap, and own initiatives that drive cultural shifts. Overall, you will play a critical role in enhancing leadership capability, driving behavioural change, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and transformation within the organisation.

Who you are

You are a highly experienced and strategic leader in change management and culture transformation. With a proven track record at a senior level, you possess the expertise and knowledge to drive behavioural, leadership, and cultural changes necessary for the successful delivery of enterprise-wide transformation programmes. Your exceptional influencing skills at all levels in an organisation, coupled with your ability to develop change management skills in others, enable you to collaborate effectively with senior leaders and cross-functional teams. With extensive experience in delivering business-wide culture change in large organisations, you are resilient in the face of setbacks and take full accountability for resolving issues. Your ability to inspire and engage others, build strong relationships, and influence agendas make you an influential force in driving the required shifts to deliver the company's ambitious strategy.

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Qualifications

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).

Responsibilities

Our people are at the heart of our business, and we are looking for those that are just as passionate about that as we are. Join our People team, and come with us on a journey as we transform the way we do HR.

Our team is made up of business partners working with leaders to get the most out of their teams, specialist knowledge in our centres of expertise, and colleague-centric, efficient people services. Our work ranges from making sure that our 150,000+ colleagues are paid on time to attracting brilliant talent to drive our strategy, to unlocking the skills and capability of our colleagues.

This is a fast-moving business, and we make sure our policies and rewards keep up with that too. We know flexibility is important and helps you be more productive so there's more choice than ever about where and when you work. When it comes to your development, we'll support your growth in your own unique way. When you join us, you’ll be joining a team that knows just what it means to be happy and engaged, and who makes a real impact across our business.