Head of Change and Communications - S4/Hana Transformation

Greencore; Greater Lincolnshire; Hybride; GBP 148 000 - 185 000; Temps partiel

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Remote working

Travel to sites

Résumé du poste

Greencore is seeking a Head of Change & Communications (S4/Hana Transformation) for a 6-month, Inside IR35 contract. The role supports remote working with travel to sites across the UK, including London and Spalding.

You will lead the change management, communications and training strategy for Project Vision, driving stakeholder engagement and ensuring smooth ERP deployment. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in large-scale transformation, ERP change with S4 HANA, and

Qualifications

• A leader able to influence without formal authority across complex change programmes.
• Excellent organisational skills with attention to detail and big-picture view.
• Strong people management skills with delivery focus.
• Proficient in project management processes and tools (e.g. Microsoft Project, Jira).
• Deep understanding of managing change related to technology implementations.
• Strong understanding of change management processes, especially stakeholder management.
• Experience leading change for ERP roll-outs, preferably S4 HANA.
• Experience in driving cultural shifts during large-scale transformations.
• Experience managing large-scale transformation programmes.
• Senior management experience is preferred.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to plan and deliver.
• Logical, analytical, and multi-tasking mindset.
• People-focused with outcome orientation.
• Willingness to travel to UK sites as required.

Responsabilités

• Lead the overall change management strategy aligning change, stakeholder engagement, communications and training.
• Provide regular status updates as part of project reporting cadence.
• Assure quality outputs using best-practice tools, templates and methodologies across change workstreams.
• Lead in identifying and driving significant cultural shifts.
• Own the project narrative and ensure high-quality communications plans and assets.
• Collaborate with Greencore communications lead to complement overall plans and channels.
• Support stakeholder engagement activities across the Project Vision team.
• Maintain the stakeholder management plan and progress reporting.
• Plan and execute the communications plan with integration to critical paths.
• Ensure high-quality training aligned to Greencore stakeholders with the training lead.
• Keep training attributes relevant and future-proof; explore supporting tech solutions.
• Coordinate process visualisations with process leads and maintain sustainability of mappings.
• Oversee development of role mappings and ensure quality assurance across outputs.

Connaissances

Influence without authority

Organisational skills

People management

Project management

Change management

Stakeholder management

ERP/S4 HANA change

Cultural shift leadership

Transformation programme experience

Senior management experience

Strategic thinking

Detail-oriented

Analytical

Multitasking

Travel to UK sites

Outils

Microsoft Project

Jira

Description du poste

Role: Head of Change & Communications (S4/Hana Transformation)

Contract: 6 months (Inside IR35)

Rate: 800- 1000 (per day)

Location: London/Spalding (the role benefits from remote working with expectation to travel to different sites when required)

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately 4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Why is this an exciting time to be a Head of Change & Communications at Greencore?

Greencore has set the vision to build a world class SAP solution, through Project Vision, that delivers outstanding customer and colleague experience, technology innovation, integrated & comprehensive solutions to ensure our operations run without impact.

We are seeking a skilled and passionate Senior change and comms lead for the Project. The Senior change and comms lead will be a highly experienced transformation professional, with a strong and demonstrable background delivering large, multi-year, business critical transformations.

The Change and Communications Lead, is overall responsible for leading the entire portfolio of change management interventions, covering stakeholder engagement, communications, role mapping, process visualization and training on Project Vision with the intent of minimizing business disruption and supporting the effective introduction of S4 Hana across the business to an engaged stakeholder group.

What you'll be doing:

• Leadership of the overall change management strategy and how that brings together the workstreams of change, stakeholder engagement, communications, and training
• Lead regular status updates as part of the project reporting cadence
• Assurance of quality outputs and use of best practice tools, templates and methodologies across all change enablement workstreams
• Take the lead in identifying and driving significant cultural shifts
• Own the overall narrative' for Project Vision and ensure the provision of high-quality communications plans and assets in collaboration with the comms lead
• Responsible for collaborative ways of working with overall Greencore communications lead, to ensure that updates on the project compliment overall communications plans and maximise existing channels
• Support activities to promote effective stakeholder engagement across Project Vision team, in collaboration with the transformation director
• Take responsibility for overall stakeholder management plan, and progress reporting in relation to stakeholder engagement
• Direction, planning and execution of the communications plan, ensuring full integration with other workstreams and alignment with critical path activities
• Overall accountability for the effective provision of high-quality training which is exactly suited to the needs of Greencore stakeholders in collaboration with the training lead
• Responsible for developing the strategy to ensure that all training attributes remain relevant and up to date in the future
• Lead close collaboration between the Project Vision training lead, and overall Greencore training team
• Quality assurance on all training attributes
• Oversee the deliver of all process visualisations in collaboration with the process leads
• Take responsibility for developing strategies to ensure process visualisations and role mapping activities are designed in a way that they are sustainable practices and future fit (e.g. including exploring the use of technology to support with this)
• Provide quality assurance on effective completion of role mapping activities

What you'll need:

• Able to influence without formal authority (persuasive, consensus builder, good communicator)
• Excellent organisational skills, including attention to detail and ability to see the big picture'
• Strong people management skills
• Proficient in project management processes and associated tools (e.g. Microsoft project, Jira)
• Deep understanding of how to manage change relating to technology implementations
• Strong understanding of change management processes, specifically stakeholder management
• Experience of leading change in relation to an ERP roll-out (preferably S4 HANA)
• Experience in leading cultural shifts
• Experience of managing large scale transformation programme would be preferred
• Previous experience of working at a senior management level would be preferred
• Highly organised with the ability to see the big picture' and a strong focus on outcomes
• Logical, analytical, and multi-tasking
• Highly people focused
• Must be able to think and plan strategically; yet possess a detail-oriented, pragmatic management approach.
• Ability to travel to sites across the UK as required