Change and Communications Deployment Manager

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.

Greencore has set the vision to build a world class SAP solution, through Project Vision, that delivers outstanding customer and colleague experience, technology innovation, integrated & comprehensive solutions to ensure our operations run without impact.  

We are seeking a skilled and passionate Change & Comms Deployment Manager for the Project. The individual will be a transformation professional, with a strong and demonstrable experience delivering large, multi-year, technology-enabled business critical transformations.

The Change & Comms Deployment Manager is overall responsible for managing critical change management interventions across our operations, covering stakeholder engagement, engagement tracking, impact assessments and the change management plan the intent of minimising business disruption and supporting the effective introduction of S4 Hana across the business to an engaged stakeholder group. Critically, this role will be heavily ‘on the ground’ in operational sites, to work directly with business stakeholders and change champions to drive confidence and adoption of the S4 solution. The role will also work directly with the Programme Director and Change and Comms lead on driving a positive culture through the Vision Programme team through events and other culture interventions.

As a dynamic, self-starter, the individual will have the ability to communicate with, and influence senior stakeholders, and build critical relationships in the business to foster high degrees of trust and collaboration.

• Lead and coordinate all change management activities required to prepare operational sites for the deployment of SAP S/4HANA
• Develop and execute site-specific change and readiness plans aligned to the overall Project Vision approach
• Ensure business readiness activities are completed to agreed quality and timescales ahead of each deployment wave
• Identify and mitigate change risks that could impact operational performance or programme delivery
• Build strong relationships with factory leadership teams, operational managers, FSS, and key stakeholders across the business
• Act as the primary change partner to operational sites, ensuring leaders understand the programme vision, impacts, and required actions
• Facilitate effective engagement and secure buy-in from stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
• Escalate stakeholder concerns and resistance appropriately and proactively manage resolution
• Lead the assessment and validation of business impacts arising from S/4HANA deployment across operational functions
• Translate technical and process changes into practical implications for colleagues and operational teams.
• Ensure impacts are understood, documented, and incorporated into deployment, communications, training, and readiness plans
• Develop and deliver clear, targeted communication plans that build understanding, confidence, and commitment to change
• Ensure communication materials are relevant, practical, and tailored to operational audiences
• Deliver site engagement events, leadership briefings, workshops, and change interventions to reinforce programme messaging and adoption
• Establish and manage effective site-based Change Champion and Super User networks
• Equip champions with the information, tools, and support required to advocate for the change locally
• Monitor network effectiveness and drive continuous engagement throughout deployment and stabilisation
• Drive user adoption and behavioural change to ensure successful embedding of new processes and ways of working
• Monitor adoption indicators, stakeholder sentiment, and readiness metrics, taking corrective action where required
• Support operational teams through go-live and hypercare periods to ensure successful transition into business-as-usual
• Work closely with the Programme Director, Change & Communications Lead, Training Lead, Functional Leads, and Deployment teams to ensure integrated delivery of change activities
• Contribute to the development of a positive, collaborative culture across Project Vision through events, engagement initiatives, and role modelling programme values
• Provide regular reporting on change progress, risks, readiness, and stakeholder engagement activities

 

 

• Able to influence without formal authority (persuasive, consensus builder, good communicator)
• Experience of running change impact assessments and managing execution of change interventions
• Events experience
• Ability to shift culture through change interventions
• Excellent organisational skills, including attention to detail and ability to see the ‘big picture’
• Strong people management skills
• Experience of working in large scale transformation programmes underpinned by technology transformation would be preferred
• Experience of managing complex super user / change champion networks
• Previous experience of working to support an  ERP implementation, specifically with S/4 HANA preferred

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.