Transformation Lead, Supply Chain

Closing date for applications: 21/07/2026

Location Manchester, United Kingdom

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

Remote / On-site Hybrid

You’ll spend some of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll also regularly work at your office or hub to collaborate with your colleagues.

Senior Manager

This is a general indication and doesn’t always reflect day-to-day responsibilities. Check the job description for full details.

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Job description

This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as Transformation Lead, Supply Chain

• You’ll be fully accountable for the transformation blueprint and roadmap, delivering an end-to-end customer journey transformation
• You’ll own the definition, coordination and delivery of critical, strategic initiatives while managing relationships with key stakeholders
• This is your opportunity to steer the strategic vision of the Supply Chain function along with senior colleagues
• You’ll spend at least two days a week in the office to coordinate resources and keep teams aligned

What you'll do

As Transformation Lead within Supply Chain, you’ll drive and lead the initiation, planning, design and implementation of all aspects of business change in line with the strategic direction of the Supply Chain function. You’ll be negotiating and managing relationships with key stakeholders to ensure continuous engagement across a breadth of projects.

You’ll also actively lead and be accountable for integration projects, making sure future state plans include the appropriate people, locations and infrastructure.

You’ll also be

• Identifying, coordinating and delivering continuous improvement initiatives and process re-engineering to the business model
• Developing and owning the business case, including a full view of benefits delivered
• Driving a culture of continuous improvement
• Supporting and driving compliance with all business policies, to ensure delivery against statutory, regulatory and legal obligations

The skills you'll need

As Transformation Lead you'll have the ability to see the bigger picture, with experience providing strategic leadership to identify improvement opportunities across the function including process, people and tools, and building the business cases to support transformations and deliver against business cases.

You’ll need strong communication skills and experience of producing recommendation papers for executive and senior audiences.

You’ll have a proven track record of delivering transformational change across people, process, systems and tools within a supply chain function. You’ll need strong stakeholder management skills with a proven ability to influence at executive and senior manager levels, including the ability to drive successful outcomes from cross-functional delivery teams.

You’ll make sure that every decision is data-led and focused on impact.

We’ll also expect you to have

• The ability to collaborate at different levels across the bank
• An in depth understanding of Supply Chain as a business unit including third party risk management
• Ability to break complex problems into a set of deliverables, each of which moves the business forward in a measurable manner
• Experience of operational and financial planning with a strong strategic awareness
• The ability to unlock value, drive efficiencies, and improve the end user customer experience, ideally leveraging AI to transform processes
• Experience of relevant legal policies, regulatory and statutory obligations, risk management and internal governance frameworks
• A background in leading diverse professional teams

Your benefits breakdown

Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.

Tap each segment for details.

Your pay package

100% Base pay This is your base pay package that you take home every month.

+10% Pension funding This is monthly funding paid towards your pension.

up to +10% Benefit funding This is monthly funding paid towards a range of benefits you can choose from.

Your leave allowance

30 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off.

3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about.

3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.

Total rewards package

Welcome to our Spinningfields hub

Spinningfields is Manchester’s leading leisure, retail, and business district and home to some of the most incredible architecture, restaurants, flagship stores, and bars the city has to offer.

Key facts

• Space for 1,345 colleagues from various teams across the bank
• Our outdoor roof terrace has panoramic views of the city
• Opened in 2023