Organisational Design Manager

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 customers, colleagues, and the 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 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.

Benefits

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whatever you are and wherever you work. 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. 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 also offer a pensions scheme and life cover, and you may be eligible for a performance‑related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on performance. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You’ll receive an annual holiday allowance and can buy additional holiday. Other benefits include season ticket loans, an interest‑free car loan of up to £10k, cycle‑to‑work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance, and access to a range of discounts. You will also be eligible for private healthcare and an Employee Assistance Programme. We provide up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.