Commercial Transformation Change Manager

GTC Recruitment; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

GTC Recruitment is seeking an experienced SCM Transformation Culture & Change Lead in Reading, with a hybrid onsite pattern (up to 3 days/week). The role focuses on shaping culture, behaviours, and employee engagement within a major transformation programme.

You will collaborate with senior leaders to define the future state, develop practical initiatives, and embed sustainable behavioural change across Supply Chain Management, Procurement and related functions.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in organisational change, culture transformation or business transformation.
• Proven experience leading culture and behavioural change initiatives.
• Experience working within a People/HR transformation workstream.
• Strong experience developing change strategies and roadmaps.
• Experience with culture, capability, maturity or skills assessments.
• Excellent senior stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Experience developing leadership capability and employee engagement programmes.
• Strong communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
• Experience measuring the impact of change through KPIs, engagement measures and reporting.
• The ability to operate confidently within a complex, multi-workstream transformation environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver a comprehensive culture and change strategy aligned to the wider transformation programme.
• Assess organisational culture, capability and maturity, identifying areas for improvement.
• Develop and manage the culture and change roadmap, including objectives, milestones and deliverables.
• Lead change management activity supporting the People Workstream.
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders, including leadership communities, to build commitment to the transformation.
• Develop leaders as culture-change champions, helping them model and reinforce the desired behaviours.
• Design and implement employee engagement and communication strategies.
• Develop training, coaching, mentoring and leadership-development initiatives.
• Design and deliver interventions focused on behaviours, values and soft skills.
• Drive improvements in employee and team engagement.
• Define KPIs and establish reporting mechanisms to measure the impact of culture and change activity.
• Identify and manage risks, issues and barriers to successful change.

Skills

Culture change

Change management

Stakeholder management

Leadership development

Communication skills

Job description

Location: Reading – hybrid, up to 3 days per week onsite

IR35: Inside IR35

Security Clearance: SC Clearance essential

Interview: 1-stage Teams interview

The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced SCM Transformation Culture & Change Lead to join a major transformation programme and lead culture and change activity across the Supply Chain Management function.

This is a high-impact role focused on shaping the cultural and employee engagement agenda as part of a wider transformation. You will work closely with the People Workstream Lead, Programme Lead and other workstream leads to develop and deliver a clear vision for culture, behaviours, leadership and employee engagement.

You will play a key role in helping the organisation understand its current culture, define the desired future state and implement practical initiatives that embed sustainable behavioural and cultural change.

What You'll Be Doing

• Develop and deliver a comprehensive culture and change strategy aligned to the wider transformation programme.
• Assess organisational culture, capability and maturity, identifying areas for improvement.
• Develop and manage the culture and change roadmap, including objectives, milestones and deliverables.
• Lead change management activity supporting the People Workstream.
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders, including leadership communities, to build commitment to the transformation.
• Develop leaders as culture-change champions, helping them model and reinforce the desired behaviours.
• Design and implement employee engagement and communication strategies.
• Develop training, coaching, mentoring and leadership-development initiatives.
• Design and deliver interventions focused on behaviours, values and soft skills.
• Drive improvements in employee and team engagement.
• Define KPIs and establish reporting mechanisms to measure the impact of culture and change activity.
• Identify and manage risks, issues and barriers to successful change.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for a senior Culture, Change or Transformation professional with a strong track record of delivering organisational and behavioural change.

You should have:

• Significant experience in organisational change, culture transformation or business transformation.
• Proven experience leading culture and behavioural change initiatives.
• Experience working within a People/HR transformation workstream.
• Strong experience developing change strategies and roadmaps.
• Experience with culture, capability, maturity or skills assessments.
• Excellent senior stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Experience developing leadership capability and employee engagement programmes.
• Strong communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
• Experience measuring the impact of change through KPIs, engagement measures and reporting.
• The ability to operate confidently within a complex, multi-workstream transformation environment.

Experience within Supply Chain, Procurement, Defence, Nuclear, Engineering, Manufacturing or another highly regulated environment would be advantageous.

Why Apply?

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Culture & Change professional to take a leading role in a significant transformation programme, working directly with senior leadership and having a tangible impact on organisational culture, employee engagement and ways of working.

If you are passionate about people, culture and sustainable transformation and have the experience to lead change within a complex organisation, we'd like to hear from you.

SC Clearance is essential for this position.