Operations Change Programme Lead

Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Pensions and life cover

Bonus up to 65% of salary

Private healthcare

Job summary

Argos, part of the Sainsbury's family, is seeking a senior change leader to drive the Operational Change Programme across Retail, Logistics, and Planning. You will partner with Strategy, Finance, Commercial, Marketing, Procurement, Tech and People Change to translate initiatives into practical delivery.

You will govern governance cycles, manage risks, and champion change with senior leaders, ensuring projects align to cost-saving targets and strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience leading change governance, working groups and senior forums that drive decisions, accountability and risk mitigation.
• Confidence engaging and influencing senior operational leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Strong reporting and storytelling capability, with experience turning performance, financial and delivery movements into concise leadership messages.
• Ability to build structure where maturity is low, introducing practical ways of working that are easy to adopt and improve over time.
• Experience developing project documentation, reporting templates, change impact assessments and lifecycle guidance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Operational Change Programme, providing oversight and delivery leadership for change across Retail, Logistics (local fulfilment, distribution operations, Large Item), planning and central operations.
• Design and run the Operations change governance cycle, including programme forums, working groups and escalation routes that enable decisions, manage risks and maintain momentum.
• Track, monitor and report progress against Operations cost-saving targets, objectives and key results, ensuring the latest position is clear for the Operational Leadership Team and Argos Board as required.
• Work closely with Finance colleagues to maintain a clear latest view of the financial position, understand movements in the plan and translate insight into clear leadership messaging.
• Ensure high-quality status reporting across all Operations change initiatives, from small continuous improvement activity through to larger strategic programmes handed over for operational execution.

Job description

Argos, part of the Sainsbury's family, is seeking a senior change leader to drive the Operational Change Programme across Retail, Logistics, and Planning. You will partner with Strategy, Finance, Commercial, Marketing, Procurement, Tech and People Change to translate initiatives into practical delivery.

You will govern governance cycles, manage risks, and champion change with senior leaders, ensuring projects align to cost-saving targets and strategic objectives.