Change Manager - 18 Month Fixed Term Contract
| Posting date: | 26 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 10 December 2025 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/12955985/970245 |
Summary
About the role
ChangeLead the design and deployment of change initiatives within the Group People function.
Deliver Group People Campaigns by creating and managing detailed deployment plans.
Ensure plans clearly outline how and when changes will land across the organization.
Build strong stakeholder engagement across all impacted business areas.
Partner with stakeholders to ensure a deep understanding of deployment requirements.
Set the business up for success by preparing teams and functions ahead of change landing.
Establish and lead the delivery of the communications plan for each change initiative.
Ensure key messages are effectively landed and resonate with all audiences.
Tailor communications to different stakeholder groups, ensuring clarity, consistency, and inclusivity.
You will be responsible for
Accountable for
- Owning and delivering all change management activities applying a structured change methodology. Applying frameworks and methodologies to design, develop and deliver the change programme
- Creating and managing deployment plans across Group, including stakeholder analysis and management, learning needs, and change impact assessments.
- Developing a clear Group engagement plan to land the change and a plan to embed the change including support for colleagues while change embeds during hypercare
- Owning the Comms plan for the change, ensuring that key messages are landed and all audiences are considered
- Ensuring the change is relevant and considered for all Group Markets to which it is applicable
Working with
- Project team to ensure that timelines are aligned and assessing readiness for deployment of change. Providing deployment plan status updates to Project Manager where appropriate
- POE teams to understand the change and ensure all Markets have been designed for
- Group Market & Business Unit teams eg PBPs to ensure deployment plans are Market relevant
- Group Communications to ensure comms plan supports deployment plan and approach
- Learning & delivery team to define best learning approach for the change initiative and training delivery required to support successful deployment of the change
You will need
- 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
- Comms Experience
What’s in it for you
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- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Private medical insurance
- 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 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- 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
About us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com
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