More than 80 jobs are at risk at Morrisons’ Hilmore House HQ, in what is the fifth round of redundancies by the supermarket in 2026.
The cuts affect all central functions at its headquarters. Stores and other operations are unaffected.
“While we are making good progress with our plan to renew and modernise Morrisons – growing sales and our market share, and improving the shopping experience – market conditions remain challenging and we are focusing hard on delivering the best value for customers,” a Morrisons spokesman said.
“In order to maintain our momentum, we’re continuing to review how we operate and have identified some opportunities to streamline our central structures – to reduce complexity, help us work faster and more effectively and empower colleagues. As a result, we’re proposing some changes across our head office functions to ensure they are better placed to serve our stores and improve service for our customers,” he said.
Morrisons has begun consulting with affected employees, and will help to find them roles elsewhere in the business “wherever we can”, the spokesman added.
More than 400 roles already cut this year
It is the fifth round of redundancies at Morrisons this calendar year as part of Rami Baitiéh’s turnaround plan. In January, 115 roles were lost with the closure and eventual sale of the Rathbones Bakery site in Wakefield.
In March a further 100 roles were impacted when Morrisons effectively axed its convenience buying team, and relocated its general merchandise division from Bradford to Warrington.
That was followed by sweeping redundancies across all functions at Hilmore House in April as part of plans to step up the use of AI across the business. More than 200 jobs were lost.
Hundreds more jobs were then put at risk in May as a result of the decision to close 100 Morrisons Daily stores.
Those all came in addition to more than 5,000 roles shed from the business over the previous financial year amid losses of more than £1bn, revealed in the supermarket’s most recent accounts.
Despite a slow start, Morrisons’ performance has improved over recent months. Sales grew 3.3% over the 12 weeks to 9 August according to the latest Worldpanel market share figures.
Volumes grew by 3% according to unpublished year-on-year volume figures seen by The Grocer.
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