Future Stores Transformation Manager (12M FTC)
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 30 October 2025
Requisition ID: 400025798
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Here, everything in our stores starts out in Food Commercial. Whether it’s the product, proposition, packaging or price, or the fact that something tastes great, our team is responsible for all food items available in store, digitally and on demand. You’ll discover it’s incredibly fast-paced. People here are in it together and not afraid to take risks. They’re enthusiastic too, and their amazing leadership team is right behind them. The knowledge and experience you gain here could set you up for career moves, anywhere else in the business. So, if you’re passionate about food and just as hungry to learn, you’ll fit in perfectly.
This role is a 12-month fixed term contract working remotely from home and our London office, up to 2 days a week.
About the Team:
Join our Transformation team, where we turn strategy into action to shape the future of our retail estate. Our mission is to develop and deliver programmes that focus on delivering the future blueprint of our stores, ensuring we offer the best possible experience for our customers and remain competitive in a fast-changing environment.
Working closely with teams across our organisation, we connect ideas, people, and data to deliver meaningful change at pace. Be part of a team that thrives on collaboration, curiosity, and making a real difference.
More about the Role:
As a Transformation Manager, you will play a pivotal role in delivering the future supermarket & convenience blueprint, digitisation, and checkout innovation.
Reporting to the Head of Transformation, you will lead cross-functional programme teams, partnering with stakeholders from all areas of the business, including finance and subject matter experts.
You will be responsible for taking projects and shaping the vision, trialling, scaling, delivering, and reviewing projects, with current initiatives at various points in this lifecycle, include shaping and scoping complex programmes, fostering collaborative ways of working, and ensuring change is delivered at pace.
You will help embed new ways of thinking, champion innovation, and support delivery at governance meetings, always keeping the customer at the heart of what you do.
More about You:
You are highly organised with a growth mindset and a strong track record in programme or change management.
You bring an analytical approach to solving business problems, using data and insight to inform decisions and drive projects forward. Your curiosity drives you to challenge the status quo and you are comfortable working in ambiguous environments, always seeking clarity and simplicity.
You excel in building relationships across all levels, communicate with influence, and facilitate environments that support agile delivery and rapid learning. Your collaborative approach and can-do attitude inspire others to get behind transformation initiatives, and you role model the behaviours that drive positive, sustainable change.
Essential Criteria:
- Proven experience of leading cross-functional programmes delivering benefits over a multi-year period.
- Demonstrable success in shaping and implementing major change projects or programmes.
- Strong ability to use data and external insights to drive decision-making in complex projects.
- Evidence of synthesising information to identify strategic business issues and present clear recommendations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience influencing stakeholders at all levels.
- Strong commercial acumen
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We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
