Change Manager

As a Change Manager, you will lead the deployment of change initiatives for the People function, build strong stakeholder engagement with the business area impacted by the change to ensure excellent understanding of their deployment requirements and be set up for success when landing the change.

You'll also be responsible for creating and managing deployment plans which shows how & when the change will land.

The Hiring Manager for this vacancy is Michelle Cutmore

• Owning and delivering all change management activities applying a structured change methodology.
• Creating and managing deployment plans, including stakeholder analysis and management, learning needs, and change impact assessments.
• Provides deployment plan status updates to Project Manager
• Working with the Communications manager to ensure comms plan supports deployment plan and approach.
• Working with Learning team to define best learning approach for the change initiative
• Work with Learning delivery team for all training delivery required to support successful deployment of the change
• Work with Group teams to ensure deployment plans are Market relevant
• Working with the project team to ensure that timelines are aligned and assessing readiness for deployment of change
• Developing a clear engagement plan to land the change and a plan to embed the change
• Evaluating and measuring the success of change management activities and associated reporting.
• Management of risks and issues and development of agreed mitigation plans escalating to project manager as appropriate
• Support colleagues while change embeds during hypercare​
• Applying frameworks and methodologies to design, develop and deliver change programmes

• Experience delivering People change initiatives
• Practitioner in Change Management methodologies
• Experience working in a retail environment across Stores, Distribution, CFCs, Head Office across the Tesco Group

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

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Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.  If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.