Enterprise Change & Transformation Lead

Halfords Careers; England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car or car allowance

Annual discretionary bonus

Pension

Life assurance

30 days annual leave + bank holidays

Hybrid work in Support Centre

Employee discounts

Job summary

Halfords is seeking a senior Change Manager to lead the change agenda across its major transformation portfolio, collaborating with Retail, Autocentres, Supply Chain, Finance, Commercial, Marketing, Digital, Data and Technology.

You will lead an established change team, build readiness, manage adoption risk and ensure benefits are realised and sustained, with hybrid working from the Support Centre three days a week.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading business change across large-scale, complex transformation portfolios.
• Proven experience with major technology-enabled transformations, such as ERP and operating model change.
• Credibility to set the method for major programmes, with strong stakeholder influence and resilience.
• Experience landing change across large frontline and multi-site populations, not just head office.
• Able to connect programme delivery activity with colleague behaviour, customer impact, operational performance and measurable business benefits.
• Experience operating with Executive Committees and senior functional leaders.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise change strategy and framework across the transformation portfolio.
• Lead and develop the team of Change Managers, coordinating demand and capacity across major programmes.
• Build an integrated change roadmap, managing cumulative impact where initiatives overlap.
• Embed change into programme design from the outset, working closely with Project Directors and Executive Sponsors.
• Set organisational readiness criteria ahead of deployments and cutovers and track adoption through to sustained business outcomes.
• Own the transition into business-as-usual ownership and provide Executive Committee-level insight on readiness and risk.

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder management

ERP transformations

Executive sponsorship

Job description

Halfords is seeking a senior Change Manager to lead the change agenda across its major transformation portfolio, collaborating with Retail, Autocentres, Supply Chain, Finance, Commercial, Marketing, Digital, Data and Technology.

You will lead an established change team, build readiness, manage adoption risk and ensure benefits are realised and sustained, with hybrid working from the Support Centre three days a week.