Organisational Design Manager in London

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work–life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re the first to say we do HR differently here. For a start, we work as business partners and specialists. Whether that’s making sure nearly 150,000 colleagues are paid on time, or shaping a strategy that helps us attract the right people, put them in the right place, and unlock their potential. This is a fast-moving business, and our policies and rewards evolve with it. That’s why we’re as flexible as we can be about where and when you work. We’re also flexible about your future. There’s always room to move up or across, if that’s what you want. We really value different perspectives, so there’s no one opinion, no single path, and yours matters.

Joining Sainsbury's as an Organisation Design Manager offers the opportunity to be at the forefront of shaping our organisation to drive performance and deliver exceptional results for our customers, colleagues, and business. As part of the Organisation Effectiveness team, you will work collaboratively with stakeholders to identify and implement innovative organisation design solutions, driving strategic alignment, capability development, and business success. With a focus on driving business performance, customer obsession, and cost efficiency, this role allows you to make a significant impact, navigate complexity, and lead transformative change in a dynamic and supportive environment.

As the Organisation Design Manager at Sainsbury's, you will play a crucial role in shaping the organisation to enhance performance for customers, colleagues, and the business. Collaborating with the Organisation Effectiveness team, you will utilise systems thinking and diagnostic expertise to understand organisational interactions, identify root causes of challenges, and design practical solutions. Your responsibilities will include defining capabilities, designing structures and processes, and facilitating efficient decision-making to drive business performance, customer focus, and cost efficiency. You will work closely with stakeholders to identify and prioritise organisation design opportunities, apply OD technology and insights to deliver quality outcomes, and build trusted relationships to provide guidance and support on organisation design and performance.

As an Organisation Design Manager at Sainsbury's, you are a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of organisation design theory and practice, able to drive business performance through innovative design solutions and effective change management. Your strong analytical skills, coupled with your ability to apply data‑led insights, enable you to identify and prioritise organisation design opportunities that align with the company's strategic objectives. With your excellent communication and facilitation skills, you build trusted relationships across all levels of the organisation, providing constructive support and guidance to leaders and stakeholders to successfully navigate complexity and drive performance improvement.

Essential Criteria

• Demonstrable experience of leading and implementing organisation design, operating model, workforce design or organisational change initiatives that have delivered measurable improvements in organisational performance.
• Proven application of organisation design methodologies, frameworks, tools and data‑led insights to diagnose organisational challenges, design solutions and measure impact.
• Evidence of partnering with senior stakeholders to shape, influence and deliver organisation design or business transformation initiatives from diagnosis through to implementation.
• Demonstrable capability to analyse organisational, workforce or business data and use insights to inform decision‑making, prioritisation and performance improvement.
• Proven facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills, including leading groups through complex design, change or problem‑solving activities to achieve agreed outcomes.

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.

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.

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.