People & Cultural Transformation Lead

**People & Cultural Transformation Lead**
- 220008QP)

For Sainsbury’s HR, people are the most important asset we have and we’re always looking for the brightest talent to bring fresh energy, experience and inspiration. This helps us to get the best out of our people and make sure they have everything they need to feel valued, engaged and motivated. Within HR we do exactly that and take pride in making a real difference to millions of customers’ lives.

You’ll work with the Director of Culture Transformation to shape and deliver the culture change plan and future of work strategy for Sainsbury’s. You’ll uses internal and external knowledge and data to identify and define key activity to transform our culture and help build Sainsbury’s as a destination employer., You’ll turn this into an actionable plan and measures of success and manage the delivery of this plan, working collaboratively with a cross-functional project teams.
- Use your knowledge of how culture change is effected and sustained, built through previous experience and/or deep research, to develop and iterate the culture change plan. Identify opportunities to accelerate our culture transformation across the business and enhance our hybrid ways of working
- Build strong relationships and work collaboratively with relevant internal stakeholders who own elements of the culture change plan to define the key activities and milestones for their areas and hold them to account for delivery against these - including the leadership development, talent, recruitment, colleague experience, customer experience and customer closeness teams. This will require getting to know their areas in some depth so that you are able to co-create solutions and support and challenge.
- Manage the required governance structures for the culture transformation programme
- what forums we need, who attends, the right cadence. Manage and lead project updates, working group meetings etc.
- Work with the People Analytics team to track and measure our progress across core KPIs
- Work with the Director of Culture Transformation to manage any external partners engaged on the culture transformation plan
- Prepare updates for different stakeholder groups as required - these might include the project team, the Central and Retail HR teams, HRLT, senior leaders and Operating Board

**What you need to know and show**
- Comfortable with ambiguity - sees the opportunity to shape the culture change plan as an exciting opportunity
- Ability to think strategically and creatively
- Curiosity to seek out insights on best practice/trends/case studies from other organisations, coupled with pragmatism to distil this into what will work for Sainsbury’s
- Strong project management skills, with experience of managing projects with time horizons of at least a year
- Clear sense of ownership and an ability to follow through tenaciously to resolve issues.
- Strong written and verbal communications - able to draft slide decks/documents that are suitable for use at HRLT and Ops Board level
- Strong stakeholder management, constructively challenging up to Director (DD) level
- Strong impact and influence skills, with experience of influencing up to Director (DD) level
- Good understanding of what organisation culture is and how culture change happens. Previous experience of managing culture change programmes is beneficial although not essential

If being part of a hugely influential team wasn’t enough, you’ll also receive a host of great benefits. As well as a competitive salary and a huge range of learning and development opportunities, you’ll also enjoy a bonus scheme, holiday allowance, pension, a save as you earn scheme and colleague discounts at Sainsbury's, Argos and Habitat

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

If being part of a hugely influential team wasn’t enough, you’ll also receive a host of great benefits. As well as a competitive salary and a huge range of learning and development opportunities, you’ll also enjoy.
- A competitive bonus scheme
- Excellent maternity/paternity policy
- Career break and sabbatical opportunities
- Holiday allowance with the option to buy more
- A healthy pension
- Save as you earn scheme
- Colleague discounts at Sainsbury's, Argos and Habitat with extra discounts throughout the year
- Cycle to work scheme

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and spac