Behaviour Change Manager

Sainsbury's; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retailer is seeking a Behavioural Change Manager to lead efforts in driving cultural and leadership transformation across the organization. You will be responsible for creating and delivering change management interventions while supporting senior business leaders in defining change initiatives. Ideal candidates will have significant change management experience and a proven ability to influence and inspire teams. Benefits include colleague discounts, performance-related bonuses, and private healthcare.

Benefits

Colleague discount

Performance-related bonus

Private healthcare

Annual holiday allowance

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Significant change management experience with enterprise-wide transformations.
• Ability to influence and challenge senior leaders effectively.
• Proven track record of driving cultural and leadership change.

Responsibilities

• Create and deliver change plans for sustainable behavior and cultural transformations.
• Develop change management interventions and materials.
• Support senior leaders in defining the vision and case for change.

Skills

Project management

Change management

Influencing skills

Collaboration

Job description

Why join us

Joining our team means being part of a transformative journey to drive cultural, leadership, and behavioural changes within our organisation. As a key player in our business-wide transformation programme, you will contribute to the successful delivery and sustainability of critical outcomes that support our overall business strategy. With the opportunity to work closely with senior business leaders and the Business Transformation Team, you will shape and implement change plans, deliver impactful interventions, and foster a collaborative and change‑ready culture.

With ownership and innovation being a core part of your role, we will give you a supportive and empowering environment where you can make a real impact and shape the future of Sainsbury’s.

What you'll do

As a Behavioural Change Manager, you will create change plans that enhance change leadership, behaviour, and culture, providing support and coaching to programme leads to define the vision and case for change. Your expertise in change management, project management, and influencing skills will be essential as you develop and deliver change management interventions, track and measure change progress, and produce high‑quality change materials. You will deliver the transformation programme you are assigned on, ensuring business programme leads are effectively supported to deliver.

Working with your team, you will develop and deliver change management interventions for the transformation programme, such as change impact assessments, comms and engagement and behavioural training materials. Additionally, you will collaborate with the Head of Organisational Change and Culture to establish a consistent change management approach across the organisation while producing high‑quality change materials. As a natural collaborator, you will work seamlessly with colleagues from our centres of expertise in the People team to deliver the change plan for various programmes, whilst also ensuring there is robust tracking and reporting.

Who you are

You are a highly experienced change management professional with a proven track record of driving enterprise‑wide transformations and delivering sustainable change outcomes. With your expertise in behavioural, leadership, and cultural change, you play a crucial role in enabling the successful delivery of critical business strategies. Your ability to influence, coach, and challenge senior leaders, coupled with your project management skills, allows you to effectively develop change plans, establish a consistent change management approach, and deliver high‑quality change interventions. As a collaborative and influential team member, you inspire and engage others, building strong relationships and fostering a culture of care and respect. With your ownership mindset, creative problem‑solving skills, and dedication to continuous improvement, you drive impactful change and contribute to the overall success of the transformation programme and the organisation as a whole.

What you’ll know and show

Essentials

• Significant change management experience working on a business / enterprise‑wide transformation / change programme, including driving behavioural, cultural and leadership change
• Experience of sustaining and embedding change in a significant change / transformation programme
• Project management skills
• Ability to influence, coach and challenge at a senior level (programme leads will be senior business leaders)

Desirables

• Creative problem solving skills
• Own it – takes full accountability for issues through to resolution, driven to deliver
• Make it better – identifies opportunities to make the way we work simpler or looks for ways of improving things. Encourages others to deliver results by making decisions and trying new approaches.
• Be human – inspiring and engaging others (at a senior level) – builds great working relationships with colleagues and shows care and respect to everyone.

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 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 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, interest free car loan of up to £10k, 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. 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).