Transformation Manager - Warehouse and Transport

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The Transformation Division plays a pivotal role in translating business strategy into high-impact programmes that drive growth, enhance customer experience, and support long-term sustainable performance. Working in close partnership with senior leaders and Finance, the team operates across the organisation to shape and deliver initiatives that enable the business to remain competitive in a fast-moving retail landscape. As part of this dynamic and collaborative function, you will contribute to a multi-year transformation agenda that delivers meaningful outcomes for both colleagues and customers.

More about the role

As a Transformation Manager, you will lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from initial discovery and shaping through to delivery handover. You will be responsible for bringing clarity to ambiguous challenges by identifying the right business questions, applying an outcome-driven approach, and developing practical, evidence-based solutions. This includes building robust business cases, establishing governance frameworks, and coordinating matrix teams to deliver change effectively.

On a day-to-day basis, you will collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation to identify opportunities, manage risks, and influence key decisions. You may work on initiatives focused on revenue generation, cost optimisation, or the design and delivery of strategic transformation programmes. You will also play an active role in embedding agile ways of working and fostering a culture that supports innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

More about you

You bring demonstrable experience of delivering strategic, project-based change and are comfortable working in environments where direction and requirements may not be fully defined. You are confident using data, insight, and external perspectives to inform decision-making, and can distil complex information into clear, actionable recommendations aligned to broader business and customer objectives.

You are a proactive and curious individual who approaches challenges with resilience and a growth mindset. You build credibility quickly and can influence effectively at all organisational levels through clear, structured communication. You champion collaborative ways of working and foster an environment where teams are encouraged to think creatively, test ideas, and deliver measurable outcomes.

Essential criteria

Proven ability to apply strategic, end-to-end thinking, using data and insight to develop solutions and deliver measurable business outcomes
Experience in Supply chain and Logistics, with knowledge of best practice in warehouse and transport operations
Experience of successful cross-functional working (across the breadth of the business) at scale and strong stakeholder management skills at all levels.
Experience in identifying, scoping, and implementing major Change projects and programmes with demonstrable results
Successful in using data insight and knowledge of external best practice to drive complex decisions.

#LI-UH1

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. As the link between sellers and buyers, retail and head office, our Retail Operations team is the cog that keeps things running. With teams focused on store-facing activity, labour, transformation, online, delivery and contact centres, we touch almost every part of the business. It’s an incredibly fast-paced environment, where you need to pivot not just daily, but often hourly. So while we plan as much as we can, it’s vital that we all think beyond our job descriptions and look for ways to optimise and improve everything we do. There’s also a real team ethos here. After all, it’s people like you who will truly transform this part of the business. " 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 65% of salary, depending on how we perform (in cash and shares). 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, 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. You'll also receive a company car cash allowance unless you are going to travel 10,000 business miles in your role, then you'll be able to choose a car. 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)."

How we rate this

Transformation Manager - Warehouse and Transport at Sainsbury's rates 35 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.