Tech Enablement & Change Lead

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work‑life balance. That's waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be. We’ve made significant investment in the standards and principles that shape how we work. We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech.

The Tech Enablement & Change lead will play an important role in supporting the technology transformation activities. They will support the delivery of significant technology change, with a focus on communication and storytelling to minimise and manage the impact of change whilst fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the cultural evolution that will be essential to the successful day‑to‑day running of our desired operating model.
• Working closely with stakeholders as needed to understand business objectives, challenges, and transformational goals for technology change.
• Utilising experience and understanding of various business change models, tools and techniques to support change.
• Supporting assessments and analysis of current processes, systems, and organisational structures to identify opportunities for change and develop comprehensive change management strategies and plans.
• Supporting workshops to develop inputs to analyse and to share emerging ideas or final conclusions.
• Contributing to training needs analysis, performing gap analysis and supporting the creation of associated training plans.
• Supporting the definition of the vision, goals, and benefits of the change initiatives.
• Involved in the establishment of communities of practice.
• Involved in our tech literacy effort to upskill Sainsbury’s at large on our transformation agenda and drive better decisions and common understanding amongst non‑tech stakeholders.
• Produces clear and concise content that explains change within and without of technology.

Qualifications – Essential

• Experience in specific Change Management roles, or Management Consulting.
• Experience of supporting complex change activities within a technology environment or similar role.
• Evidence of effective change management and communication strategies for initiatives or programmes.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership and manage projects from start to finish.
• Strong focus on execution and ability to manage ambiguity.

Qualifications – Desirable

• Retail experience.

Key Competencies

• Excellent communication, relationship, facilitation and storytelling skills.
• Excellent Powerpoint and/or graphic design skills to support communication and engagement materials.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to think strategically.
• Familiarity with project management methodologies.
• Understanding and experience of Agile practices and mindset.
• E‑commerce and/or retail sector experience is desirable.
• Attention to detail.

Support We Will Provide

• Full system and process training for the role.
• Wider Portfolio team for direction and guidance.
• Access to personal development tools e.g. Bitesize talks, online self‑development tools, internal mentoring etc.

Benefits

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 in‑store 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 10% 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 up to an additional week’s holiday.
• 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 as 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.
• 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).