Transformation Change Manager- Customer Availability

Primark
Reading, United Kingdom
11 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Reading, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Agile Methodologies
Data analysis

Job description

In your role, you'll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here's a flavour of your day-to-day:

  • Responsible for end-to-end change management across a medium programme or multiple projects, ensuring successful adoption of new processes, systems, and behaviours
  • Develop and deliver comprehensive change plans including impact assessments, stakeholder analysis, communications, training, and readiness, while partnering with stakeholders to understand business climate, capacity, and change context
  • Drive targeted engagement and adoption activities for impacted audiences, managing change risks, issues, and interdependencies at project level
  • Build readiness across teams, ensuring clear understanding of changes, while measuring adoption, benefits, and behavioural shifts and adjusting plans based on insights
  • Support go-lives, hypercare, and transition to BAU, ensuring sustainability of outcomes, and capture lessons learned, escalating key insights across projects
  • Collaborate with PMs, SMEs, People & Culture, Communications, L&D, and Technology teams to deliver a unified change experience, while providing timely reporting on readiness, adoption, risks, and maintaining alignment with wider transformation strategies and governance.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Waterfall?, * Degree (or equivalent experience) with 5+ years in Change Management or Transformation roles, including delivery across multiple projects or medium-sized programmes

  • Proven experience leading end-to-end change activities such as impact assessments, stakeholder analysis, communications, and training planning, with a strong understanding of change frameworks and delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall)
  • Experience supporting go-live preparation, hypercare, and transition to BAU, with exposure (nice to have) to retail transformation, technology enablement, operating model change, and multi-market or matrix environments (certification preferred but optional)
  • Strong planning, organisation, and facilitation skills, able to manage multiple priorities while running workshops, briefings, and targeted engagement sessions effectively
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to simplify complexity into actionable plans, analyse insights, and track readiness, adoption, and benefits (data interpretation, storyboarding, and coaching capabilities are a plus)
  • Positive, adaptable, and resilient team player who is collaborative, influential at all levels, and practical, hands-on, and delivery-focused, with the ability to support teams and build change capability

Does this sound like you? Great, because we can't wait to see what you'll bring. You'll be supported within a team of equally capable people, celebrating who you are and aiding you reach your potential. At Primark, we're excited about our future - and we're excited to develop yours.

About the company

At Primark, people matter. They're the beating heart of our business and the reason we've grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to a £9bn+ turnover business and over 80,000 colleagues and over 440 stores in 17 countries today. Our values run through everything we do. In essence, we're Caring and always strive to put people first. We're also Dynamic, bravely pushing the boundaries to stay ahead. And finally, we succeed Together. If you need any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request, during your recruitment journey, such as extended time or breaks between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, mobility access, or assistive technology please contact your talent acquisition specialist. All offers of employment are subject to background checks, including right to work, reference education and for some roles criminal, and financial checks. If you have any concerns, please reach out to our talent acquisition team to discuss.

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