• Job Description

  Req#: 227475

  Why join us :
  Joining Sainsbury’s as a Continuous Improvement (CI) Manager means becoming an integral part of our transformative journey. With our Process Transformation team, you will play a crucial role in driving process improvement initiatives that simplify and standardise our operations across the organisation.

  As a qualified Lean 6 Sigma Black Belt professional, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams, training and guiding them to adopt a continuous improvement mindset. By leveraging your expertise in process management and Lean 6 Sigma methodologies, you will unlock efficiencies, drive large-scale business improvements, and deliver substantial financial savings.

  We value innovation, collaboration, and a passion for change. Join our team and be part of a community committed to harnessing the power of continuous improvement to shape the future of our organisation.

  What you'll do :
  You will play a crucial role in driving process improvement initiatives and delivering associated financial benefits. Partnering with teams across the business, you will utilise your Lean 6 Sigma (L6S) expertise to unlock process efficiencies, simplifying and standardising processes organisation wide.

  You will collaborate with Functional Process Owners (FPOs) and business stakeholders to implement the Process Transformation strategy, providing training and guidance on process simplification and continuous improvement. Additionally, you will cultivate a CI mindset and way of working within your partnered teams, advocating for L6S as a business-wide language.

  Through your leadership, you will lead projects across different functions, capturing and mapping business processes, and optimising them. Building strong relationships with key stakeholders, you will challenge the status quo, identify value-adding activities, and foster a culture of innovation and collaboration. Utilising process management tools and supporting process governance, you will contribute to building process maturity and an end-to-end view of the business.
  
  
  

  Who you are
  An experienced CI professional with a passion for driving major change through CI methodology. With your qualifications in Lean 6 Sigma Black Belt and expertise in business process management, you thrive in complex, cross-functional organisations. Strong project management skills enable you to successfully partner with business teams, providing support, guidance, and training to colleagues, ensuring the adoption of L6S as a business-wide language for delivering large-scale improvements.

  With your logical and analytical approach, excellent communication skills, and ability to engage stakeholders, you drive the implementation of process transformation initiatives and build strong relationships within the organisation.

  Qualifications

  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 get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. 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 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
  
  Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay 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. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.

  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).

  Responsibilities

  We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.

• About the company

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