Group Change Manager - 18 Month Fixed Term Contract

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK retailer is seeking a Change Management Lead to drive change initiatives across their operations. You'll be responsible for developing and managing deployment plans while engaging stakeholders to ensure successful change implementation. Experience in retail change management is essential, alongside strong communication skills. The position includes a comprehensive benefits package and offers flexibility in work arrangements.

Benefits

Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary

Holiday starting at 25 days plus personal day

Private medical insurance

Maternity and paternity leave benefits

Free 24/7 virtual GP service

Qualifications

• Delivering impactful change in a retail setting.
• Familiarity with change management practices.
• Capable of stakeholder engagement for deployments.

Responsibilities

• Lead change management activities applying structured methodologies.
• Create and manage deployment plans across all business areas.
• Develop clear engagement plans to land and embed change.

Skills

Experience delivering People change initiatives

Practitioner in Change Management methodologies

Experience working in a retail environment

Comms Experience

Job description

Tesco UK • Shire Park, Kestral Way, Welwyn Garden City • Temporary • Apply by 10-Dec-2025

Change

• 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.

Deployment

• 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.

Communications

• 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.

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• 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 years' service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, 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

You will be responsible for

Accountable for

• Owning and delivering all change management activities applying a structured change methodology. Applying frameworks and methodologies to design, develop and deliver the change programme
• Creating and managing deployment plans across Group, including stakeholder analysis and management, learning needs, and change impact assessments.
• Developing a clear Group engagement plan to land the change and a plan to embed the change including support for colleagues while change embeds during hypercare
• Owning the Comms plan for the change, ensuring that key messages are landed and all audiences are considered
• Ensuring the change is relevant and considered for all Group Markets to which it is applicable

Working with

• Project team to ensure that timelines are aligned and assessing readiness for deployment of change. Providing deployment plan status updates to Project Manager where appropriate
• POE teams to understand the change and ensure all Markets have been designed for
• Group Market & Business Unit teams eg PBPs to ensure deployment plans are Market relevant
• Group Communications to ensure comms plan supports deployment plan and approach
• Learning & delivery team to define best learning approach for the change initiative and training delivery required to support successful deployment of the change

You will need

• 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
• Comms Experience

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