Culture & Change Lead — Transformation Programme

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

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.