Change Manager - 18 Month Fixed Term Contract

Tesco PLC; Digswell; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK retailer is seeking a Change Management Specialist to lead the design and deployment of organizational change initiatives. Ideal candidates will have experience in delivering people change initiatives within a retail environment and possess strong stakeholder engagement skills. This role offers a competitive salary and benefits, including an annual bonus scheme and private medical insurance.

Benefits

Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary

Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day

Private medical insurance

26 weeks maternity and adoption leave at full pay

Free 24/7 virtual GP service

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Qualifications

• Strong background in change management methodologies.
• Proven experience in delivering change initiatives in retail.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and deployment of change initiatives.
• Build strong stakeholder engagement across the organization.
• Own and deliver all change management activities applying a structured methodology.

Skills

Experience delivering people change initiatives

Practitioner in change management methodologies

Experience working in a retail environment

Communications experience

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and deployment of change initiatives within the Group People function.
• Deliver Group People Campaigns by creating and managing detailed deployment plans.
• Ensure plans clearly outline how and when changes will land across the organization.
• Build strong stakeholder engagement across all impacted business areas.
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure a deep understanding of deployment requirements.
• Set the business up for success by preparing teams and functions ahead of change landing.
• Establish and lead the delivery of the communications plan for each change initiative.
• Ensure key messages are effectively landed and resonate with all audiences.
• Tailor communications to different stakeholder groups, ensuring clarity, consistency, and inclusivity.
• Own and deliver all change management activities applying a structured change methodology; apply frameworks and methodologies to design, develop and deliver the change programme.
• Create and manage deployment plans across the Group, including stakeholder analysis and management, learning needs, and change impact assessments.
• Develop a clear Group engagement plan to land the change and a plan to embed the change, including support for colleagues while the change embeds during hyper‑care.
• Own the communications plan for the change, ensuring that key messages are landed and all audiences are considered.
• Ensure the change is relevant and considered for all Group Markets to which it is applicable.
• Work with the project team to ensure that timelines are aligned and assess readiness for deployment of change, providing deployment plan status updates to the Project Manager where appropriate.
• Align POE teams to understand the change and ensure all Markets have been designed for.
• Align Group Market & Business Unit teams (e.g., PBPs) to ensure deployment plans are market‑relevant.
• Ensure Group Communications supports the communications plan to align with the deployment plan and approach.
• Align Learning & Delivery team to define the best learning approach for the change initiative and training delivery required to support successful deployment of the change.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering people change initiatives.
• Practitioner in change management methodologies.
• Experience working in a retail environment across Stores, Distribution, CFCs, Head Office across the Tesco Group.
• Communications experience, Disability Confident.

About Disability Confident

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About Tesco

Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues. It is part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we are proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year. We are the UK’s number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers. We also offer great job opportunities. With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business. We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It’s our people that make the difference every day – helping us make a difference for our customers.

Benefits

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
• Private medical insurance.
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 year’s service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, and we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.