Head of Change and Communications - S4/Hana Transformation

Greencore; Spalding; Hybrid; GBP 176,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Greencore seeks a Head of Change & Communications to lead the end-to-end change management for a 6-month S4/HANA transformation. You will own stakeholder engagement, communications, training, and process visualisation across multiple sites, with travel across the UK as required.

The role demands strong leadership in change enablement, collaboration with the Greencore comms lead, and delivery of high-quality training and communications assets to minimise disruption.

Qualifications

• Ability 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 tools (e.g. Microsoft project, Jira).
• Deep 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 programmes would be preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the overall change management strategy across workstreams: change, stakeholder engagement, communications, training.
• Provide regular status updates as part of the project reporting cadence.
• Assure quality outputs and use of best practice templates across change enablement workstreams.
• Drive significant cultural shifts within the business.
• Own the Project Vision narrative and develop high-quality communications plans and assets with the comms lead.
• Collaborate with Greencore communications lead to align project updates with existing channels.
• Promote stakeholder engagement across the Project Vision team in collaboration with the transformation director.
• Manage the stakeholder engagement plan and progress reporting.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Communication leadership

Project management

S4 HANA

ERP rollout

Travel readiness

Tools

Microsoft Project

Jira

Job description

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