Senior Initiative Change Lead

Why Greencore?
Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.
As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.
Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

What you'll be doing:
As the Senior Initiative Change Lead, you will enable the successful delivery and adoption of change through the effective design, delivery, and tracking of business change activities and interventions.In doing so, you will:

Design, deliver, and evaluate interventions to build change capability across the organisation as a key enabler for the successful implementation of change
Assess, understand, and develop the change capability to support the delivery of specific initiatives by developing a skilled team of change champions across a cross-functional network of colleagues
Define and implement the business change approach and plan for specific iniaves, ensuring use of the agreed business change framework and alignment with the initiative project plan
Develop high-level and detailed impact assessments and ensure the impacts are effectively communicated to all key stakeholders. Assess the overall impact of change and develop solutions to ensure the changes can be successfully implemented
Conduct stakeholder analysis and develop and implement stakeholder engagement plans, ensuring alignment of activities with other initiatives
Develop and implement plans to achieve readiness for go live, working with business areas to track local readiness and launch communication plans. Conduct readiness assessments to identify further actions needed
Conduct training needs analysis and ensure this is translated into appropriate content and materials. Develop the training approach and work with the training and development lead to ensure consistency and alignment of training content
Identify potential risks, areas requiring escalation or obstacles that may derail change and communication plans and put in place mitigating actions or escalate as appropriate
Ensure the effectiveness of change and communication is evaluated and plans are adapted based on feedback and insightsWhat we're looking for:

Deep understanding of project and change management methodologies (e.g., Agile, waterfall, PROSCI, ADKAR)
Setting and aligning business change activities to a project / programme plan
Risk management and mitigation strategies
Reasonable understanding of technology
Excellent communication and facilitation skills
Skills in effective stakeholder management and conflict resolution.
Expertise in business change planning and execution
Analytical mindset with problem-solving capabilities
Proficiency in risk management
Proficiency in the use of M365 tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Email, Teams)
Proven experience in leading business change across large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects or programmes
Experience delivering development focused workshops and interventions to support change capability and maturity
Experience working alongside business and IT colleagues and demonstrating a reasonable understanding of technologyWhat you'll get in return:

Competitive salary and job-related benefits
Annual Target Bonus
Holidays
Competitive matched pension contributions
Life insurance up to 4x salary
PMI Cover: Individual
Company share save scheme
Greencore Qualifications
Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
Enhanced parental leave and menopause policiesThroughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career