Change Manager (18 Month Fixed-Term Contract)

PRIMARK; Reading; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Primark is seeking a Change Manager to plan and deliver end-to-end change for a programme within the Digital Transformation portfolio. You will align activities to governance, drive adoption of new processes, systems and ways of working, and work with cross-functional stakeholders to embed effective change interventions.

You will design and execute change plans, assess impacts, monitor readiness and benefits, and support smooth go-live, hypercare and BAU transition across customer-facing and

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience required.
• 5+ years in Change Management or Transformation roles.
• Experience delivering change across multiple projects or a medium-sized programme.
• Hands on experience performing Change Impact Assessments, stakeholder analysis, communications, and training planning.
• Strong understanding of change management frameworks and structured delivery environments (e.g., Agile, Waterfall).
• Experience supporting go live preparation, hypercare, and BAU transition.
• Experience delivering change within customer-facing, operational or digitally enabled business environments.
• Experience assessing and managing change impacts across end-to-end business processes and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Programme & Project Change Planning: Develop and manage integrated change plans for a programme or multiple projects, aligning activity to delivery milestones and readiness needs.
• Business Readiness, Deployment & Adoption: Contribute to readiness for releases, deployments and phased rollouts; support go-live and transition planning.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Change Communications: Map and engage diverse stakeholder groups; deliver tailored engagement and learning interventions.
• Governance, Insight & Continuous Improvement: Provide clear status reporting; escalate risks and dependencies; ensure alignment with governance and Transformation objectives.
• Experience & Knowledge: Maintain a strong understanding of change management frameworks and delivery environments; capture lessons learned for portfolio learning.

Skills

Planning & organisation

Facilitation

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Change impact assessment

Go-live support

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Because your new ideas are our way new ways of working.

Evolve, your way.

Digital at Primark

Our digital teams are right at the heart of what we do. Surrounded by some of the best digital specialists in the industry, you'll bring your own ideas to the business to shape the experience of our customers as part of a forward-thinking team.

The Change Manager is responsible for planning and delivering end to end change for a programme or multiple projects within the Digital Transformation portfolio. The role supports successful adoption of new processes, systems, capabilities and behaviours that enable digitally enabled business outcomes, while aligning change activity to portfolio priorities, dependencies and governance requirements as appropriate. Working closely with business, technology and cross-functional stakeholders, the Change Manager designs, executes and embeds effective change interventions at programme and project level.

Programme & Project Change Planning

• Develop and manage integrated change plans for a programme or multiple projects, aligning activity to delivery milestones, dependencies, business readiness needs and relevant portfolio priorities.
• Conduct change impact assessments to identify and manage impacts across processes, technology, roles, capabilities, ways of working and operating models.
• Translate programme and project outcomes into practical business change activity, ensuring impacted teams understand what is changing, why it matters and how new ways of working will be adopted.
• Assess the impact of digital change on customer, colleague and operational experiences, ensuring change interventions support simple, consistent and sustainable adoption.
• Identify, manage and mitigate change-related risks, issues, dependencies and resistance throughout the programme or project lifecycle.

Business Readiness, Deployment & Adoption

• Contribute to business readiness activity for releases, deployments and phased rollouts, ensuring impacted teams have the knowledge, support, processes and capacity required to adopt the change.
• Support implementation, go-live, transition planning and hypercare, enabling a smooth move to business-as-usual operations.
• Define and track change readiness, adoption and engagement measures, using data and stakeholder insight to identify gaps, refine interventions and support benefits realisation.
• Establish and support change networks to accelerate adoption, gather feedback and embed sustainable ways of working.
• Capture lessons learned, adoption insights and continuous improvement opportunities from programme and project delivery, sharing relevant insight to support broader portfolio learning.

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Communications

• Map, manage and engage complex stakeholder groups across business, technology and operational teams, ensuring change impacts, risks and readiness requirements are understood and acted upon.
• Partner with business leaders, Portfolio team, Product, Technology, SMEs, Communications, Learning and People & Culture teams to deliver an integrated change experience.
• Design and deliver stakeholder engagement, communications and learning interventions tailored to the needs of impacted audiences and aligned to Portfolio communications approach.
• Drive stakeholder commitment and readiness by building awareness, understanding and engagement across impacted teams.

Governance, Insight & Continuous Improvement

• Provide clear change status reporting into programme governance and relevant portfolio forums, highlighting readiness, adoption, stakeholder engagement, risks, dependencies and decisions required.
• Contribute to programme governance forums, escalating risks, dependencies and decisions and ensuring appropriate alignment with portfolio governance where required.
• Ensure programme and project level change activity aligns with enterprise change methodologies, governance standards and broader Digital Transformation objectives

Experience & Knowledge

• Degree or equivalent experience required
• 5+ years in Change Management or Transformation roles
• Experience delivering change across multiple projects or a medium-sized programme
• Hands on experience performing Change Impact Assessments, stakeholder analysis, communications, and training planning
• Strong understanding of change management frameworks and structured delivery environments (e.g., Agile, Waterfall)
• Experience supporting go live preparation, hypercare, and BAU transition
• Experience delivering change within customer-facing, operational or digitally enabled business environments.
• Experience assessing and managing change impacts across end-to-end business processes and cross-functional teams.

Nice to have:

• Exposure to retail transformation change
• Experience working across geographies or delivering change in multi market environments
• Experience working within a federated transformation model or matrix organisation
• Change Management certification preferred but not essential

Skills

• Strong planning and organisation skills, able to manage multiple priorities
• Strong facilitator, able to run workshops, briefings, and targeted engagement sessions
• Excellent communication skills - written, verbal, and visual
• Ability to analyse and simplify complexity and translate into actionable plans
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work across diverse stakeholder groups
• Ability to track readiness, adoption, benefits, and insights

Nice to have:

• Data interpretation, storyboarding, and insight generation.
• Ability to coach teams through change and build local change capability

Personal Attributes

• Positive, adaptable, and resilient
• Collaborative and team oriented
• Clear communicator who can influence and support at all levels
• Practical, hands on, and delivery focused

About Primark

Excited? Good. Because it's energising to put your skills to work, in a growing global business committed to encouraging people to express themselves - and feel a sense of belonging.

At Primark, people matter. They're the beating heart of our business and the reason we've grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to a £9bn+ turnover business and over 80,000 colleagues and over 440 stores in 17 countries today. Our values run through everything we do. In essence, we're Caring and always strive to put people first. We're also Dynamic, bravely pushing the boundaries to stay ahead. And finally, we succeed Together.

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