Transformation Manager - Operating Model

Working as a Transformation Manager within our Operating Model teams, you will be part of an agile team established to accelerate and drive Enterprise Operating Model transformation from strategy to execution.

Here you will work collaboratively with stakeholders from across the business at all levels to drive end-to-end thinking on our Enterprise Operating Model strategy and identify and prioritise interdependencies across Operating Model activity.

Your programmes will be set-up & run brilliantly to deliver change at pace, creating high-performing end-to-end teams. You will galvanise others to get behind the change, and champion a Transformation mindset.

What I am accountable for

Excellent thought leadership: Driving end-to-end thinking, employing an outcome-centric & hypothesis-led approach.

• Drive clarity and simplicity from positions of ambiguity by framing the right business questions and employing an outcome-centric & hypothesis-led approach.
• Be creative in bringing the right insights and people together to help solve our toughest business problems and make practical recommendations to the business.
• Demonstrate curiosity to stretch business thinking end-to-end, challenging the status quo & driving innovative solutions.
• Form clear & robust narratives & use storytelling to inspire change.
• Leverage the power of Sainsbury’s, using your network to liaise regularly with subject matter experts to maximise our collective knowledge and capability.

Brilliant strategic programme management: Leading change at pace through excellent cross-functional working

• Brilliantly drive complex programmes of work, including scoping, building cross-business support, engagement and investment, trialling, iterating, and embedding.
• Forward-thinking & proactive leadership, to shape the narrative as well as to manage/mitigate risks.
• Employ an agile mindset to break down & accelerate delivery of complex programmes.
• Set up the right ways of working to galvanise change & support programme delivery at pace.
• Support engagement at critical governance meetings to underpin the programme delivery.
• Quickly build great relationships and high-performing working teams to land change at pace.
• Underpin the plan with strong business cases that set clear outcomes & deliverables to measure progress against.
• Champion a transformation mindset and collaborative ways of working that are truly cross-functional and connected.
• Challenge and work with the business to ensure projects deliver at pace; embed the discipline to build the right scope, team constructs & end-to-end ways of working.

What I need to know

Essential Criteria

• Experience in defining a target operating model strategy from concept, design to completion - particularly work that has spanned across multiple functions at a business-wide level. Experience of this in Retail is preferred but not a requirement.
• Experience engaging with senior stakeholders (Director and above) e.g. able to communicate internally at senior levels.
• Extensive evidence of successful cross-functional working (across the breadth of the business) at scale.
• Leadership - able to lead projects and manage priorities.
• Successful experience of working on shaping and implementing major Change projects/programmes.
• Strong examples of distilling complex, end-to-end, long-term activities into a clear and concise narrative for senior internal & external audiences (Divisional Directors, Operating Board, external market & investors).

What I need to show

• A growth mindset.
• Strength in driving end-to-end strategic thinking, being outcome-centric & hypothesis-led.
• Well organized with experience of working in change or programme management.
• Curiosity & drive to identify & chase potential opportunities / challenges.
• Role model positive, collaborative, and agile ways of working with all areas of the business.
• Facilitate an environment for delivery at pace and celebration of learn and fail quickly.
• Ability to innovate and implement, combining analytical perspectives with pragmatism.
• Ability to communicate effectively and influence at the highest level of the business, forming strong working relationships.