People Change & Transformation Lead

Kingfisher; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Kingfisher, a global home improvement retailer, is seeking a People Change Lead to drive strategic people initiatives across Group Functions. You will translate plans into practical change that is well managed and embedded, partnering with senior leaders to shape the People Plan and oversee change delivery across multiple brands.

In this hybrid UK-based role, you’ll lead organisational design changes, ensure effective stakeholder engagement and use data to continually improve the colleague

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex people change, transformation or HR project delivery programmes.
• Strong project and programme management skills, including planning, governance, risk management and reporting.
• Experience implementing organisational design and organisational change, with a good understanding of change management approaches and stakeholder engagement.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with experience working collaboratively with senior leaders in a complex, matrix environment.
• People leadership experience, alongside strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to coach others to do their best work.

Responsibilities

• Partner with People Directors and key stakeholders to develop and maintain the Group Functions People Plan and change roadmap, overseeing priorities, demand, resources and capacity.
• Lead the implementation of strategic people projects, Centre of Expertise initiatives and organisational design changes, bringing together cross‑functional teams to support successful delivery and adoption.
• Create and manage clear implementation plans, including project roadmaps, governance, responsibilities, resources, milestones, dependencies, risks and reporting.
• Lead organisational change activity, working with People Directors, HR Business Partners, Employee Relations and specialist teams to plan stakeholder engagement and implementation.
• Carry out change impact assessments and develop practical change plans that support teams, processes and ways of working through periods of transition.
• Coach leaders and project teams on change management, ensuring communication, engagement and adoption activities are integrated into delivery plans.
• Use data, feedback, lessons learned and post‑implementation reviews to improve future people initiatives, simplify processes and strengthen the colleague experience.

Skills

Change leadership

Project management

Programme governance

Stakeholder influencing

People leadership

Job description

Kingfisher, a global home improvement retailer, is seeking a People Change Lead to drive strategic people initiatives across Group Functions. You will translate plans into practical change that is well managed and embedded, partnering with senior leaders to shape the People Plan and oversee change delivery across multiple brands.

In this hybrid UK-based role, you’ll lead organisational design changes, ensure effective stakeholder engagement and use data to continually improve the colleague