Change Lead

3 weeks ago

Reading, United Kingdom Primark Full time

**Change Lead - Commercials**

Our transformation teams are right at the heart of what we do. Surrounded by some of the best transformation specialists in the industry, you’ll bring your own ideas to the business - helping to shape the experience of our customers as part of a forward-thinking team.

Primark has an updated business strategy called “Primark 2030 - The Next Chapter” with significant financial ambition over the next 6 years to double our revenue through LFL and space, increase our operating profit margin and reduce our cost as a % of sales. Whilst doing this we need to continue to focus on our colleagues, customers, the planet and evolving regulatory landscape.

Given the breadth of our business and scale of our transformation, we will organise our Transformation team around three domains:

- Channels focus on end-to-end customer journey, engage to sell, to delight and surprise customers with inventive experiences and a power brand.
- Commercials deliver the full lifecycle of order to receipt/ concept to store and the capability to support Primark growth ambitions.
- Enterprise teams enable the business to scale operations efficiently while reinforcing Primark DNA through leading colleague experiences and ESG programmes.

The business is seeking to recruit an experienced Change Lead to support the planning, driving, and governing of the transformation agenda within their respective domain.

**What You’ll Get**
The world is changing and it’s important we support our colleagues. People are at the heart of what we do at Primark so it’s essential we provide the right environment for you to perform at your best. That’s why we offer benefits that put you first

Some of our benefits are:

- 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more.
- Flexible Working, opportunity for an early Friday finish, and a subsidised cafeteria.
- Primark Perks - Discounts with some local partner business to our offices

**What You’ll Do**:
In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day:

- Support the development and implementation of a comprehensive transformation strategy for the respective domain you are partnered with.
- Partnering with Transformation Leads to assess, prioritise, sequence and deliver transformation and change roadmap. Develop change pipelines for your area and work with business to deliver.
- Work in conjunction with strategic planning functions (Portfolio Team, plus functional planning teams e.g., Technology Portfolio and Retail Ops) to advise on impact of multiple projects across the colleagues and business.
- Provide expert guidance to the project change team on the strategies directive of the project
- Review Change strategic plan and associated artefacts to ensure the approach aligns with the business direction and other initiatives.
- Formally escalate all business Change risks and dependencies to programme management
- At times, prepared to be hands
- on to deliver the Primark 2030 change related work across the portfolios (e.g., Change Impact Assessment, Training Needs Analysis, Comms, climate and capacity analysis)
- Working with business stakeholders, create and refine change management strategies aligned to strategic transformation priorities, their communities (i.e., functions in their domain) and business needs
- Develop effective resourcing strategies for initiatives ensuring we maintain a flexible, targeted, and cost-effective way of delivering value.
- Partner with core functional leaders in the Commercials / Channels / Enterprise space, to understand specific challenges, prior learning, change context, climate and capacity to implement, adopt and embed change

**What You’ll Bring**
Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued - so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:

- For the Change Lead of Commercials, this expertise must include a deep knowledge of at least two of the following business functions: Buying, Merchandising, Design, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Quality & Sustainability, Ethical Trade
- Key business capabilities include: Range & Assortment Planning, Allocation & Replenishment, Warehouse Mgt, End to End Visibility, Network Planning & Optimisation, Product Development & Quality Mgt, Sourcing & Supplier Mgt, Inventory Optimisation
- As this is a partnering role, you must be someone that can influence without authority and engage with leaders at all levels of the organisation.

If you need any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility requests, during your recruitment journey, such as extended time or breaks between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, mobility access, or assistive technology please contact your talent acquisition specialist.

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