Sainsburys Hiring for HR Change Lead at London Full Time

For Sainsbury’s HR, people are the most important asset we have and we’re always looking for the brightest talent to bring fresh energy, experience, and inspiration. This helps us to get the best out of our people and make sure they have everything they need to feel valued, engaged, and motivated. Within HR we do exactly that and take pride in making a real difference to millions of customers’ lives.

In this exciting role as a HR Change Lead, you’ll be accountable for determining the strategy for end-to-end delivery of multiple colleague impacting change initiatives and programmes across the business, working closely with key stakeholders to ensure that initiatives and programmes are planned, led and embedded brilliantly. You’ll identify ways to innovate our change approach and step on the capability of our leaders to deliver and sustain people change in their teams.

You will develop strong working relationships with senior business leaders, up to and including Board Directors, quickly establishing credibility and a reputation as a trusted advisor with sound working knowledge of the change context. Working with them to ensure we achieve the intended outcomes and return on investment of the change, whilst managing key risks & dependencies.

You will line manage, coach & lead a team of HR Change Specialists & HR Change Executives in a matrix style of leadership providing inspirational and motivational direction, with a clear performance focus, creating an inclusive, high performing and engaged team that take an active role to continuously improve the HR Change function. Working collaboratively with Centre of Excellences (CoEs), HR Directors and Heads of HR, you will ensure we develop a change strategy and compelling case for change that is aligned to our strategic priorities and culture.

What you need to know and show

A genuine passion for leading change and experience with managing multiple large-scale people change programmes

Able to engage others, of all levels, by being credible and persuasive to stakeholders, showing a high level of impact and influence

Bravery, resilience, and open mindedness to take on board different viewpoints and flex a plan when appropriate

Experience in leading, motivating and inspiring a high performing, large field-based team – providing clear performance expectations, honest everyday feedback and proactively tackling underperformance

Ability to think strategically allied with a practical approach to execution and curiosity to explore new ways of doing things

If being part of a hugely influential team wasn’t enough, you’ll also receive a host of great benefits. As well as a competitive salary and a huge range of learning and development opportunities, you’ll also enjoy a bonus scheme, holiday allowance, pension, a save as you earn scheme and colleague discounts at Sainsbury’s, Argos, and Habitat.

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

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Primary Location GB-GB-London

Work Locations Holborn Store Support Centre – Field Based Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd 33 Holborn London EC1N 2HT

Job Human Resources

Schedule Full-time

Advertised Salary Competitive