Business Change Manager

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Sector: Project and Program Management
Role: Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

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Vacancy: Business Change Manager
Location: York George Stephenson House (please note, 2 to 3 days a week are required in York however this role is flexible with Eastern Region)
Salary: 46,701 to 52,538 per annum
Role Type: Permanent, Full time
Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!

Brief Description
In this Business Change Manager role, you will lead the delivery of change programmes in line with the Eastern regional improvement objectives. Strong interpersonal and negotiating skills are vital given the senior audiences we are required to engage with.

Key Accountabilities

1. Deliver change projects in accordance to business standards across the Business community.
2. Lead the formulation of and transition plans for business change with the regional functions and stakeholders, agreeing all communications.
3. Develop and manage relationships with the business community and stakeholders to support the development of the project and to gain buy-in during project lifecycle.
4. Control project change and risks on business change tasks, and provide all costs, contingency and programme details to enable the sponsor to direct change strategy and engagement.
5. Provide detailed input for the compilation of the Business Plan and production of change and transition plans.
6. Liaise with the Information Management to deliver the effective implementation of appropriate technical solutions.

Essential Requirements

1. Experience of delivering business change on a large scale.
2. Understanding of Network Rail or similar industry.
3. Demonstrated credibility and impact with senior stakeholders.
4. Effective interpersonal skills and an ability to use influence to gain buy-in to enable change to happen through others.
5. A drive to deliver tangible outcomes which meet business requirements.
6. An ability to work well under pressure in a rapidly evolving environment.
7. Educated to degree level or equivalent.
8. Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Desirable Requirements

1. Commercial awareness.
2. Knowledge of Network Rail and the Rail Industry.
3. Consultancy or business transformation programme management experience.
4. Evidence of working in several different functions in a business change role.

We encourage you to apply for this role. If this isn't the job for you, there may be other roles available in the wider team.

Company

Every day, 4.8 million people use our network. Keeping Britain moving and building a better railway for the future is full of challenges – but also tremendous opportunities.

Your health, wellbeing and benefits

We believe that safety and performance go hand in hand and this doesn’t just mean safety on the railway! We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and believe, that should come first.

Benefits

• 28 days annual leave entitlement.
• My benefits – Our discounted online shopping site.
• A range of discounted offers including, childcare vouchers, healthcare offers – cycle to work, healthcare club discounted membership and other benefits.
• Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets.
• A range of pension schemes.
• 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community.

What Diversity and Inclusion means to us

‘Diversity’ means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. ‘Inclusion’ means creating safe and welcoming workplaces with fair cultures that encourages innovative and fresh ways of thinking.

Disability Confident Leader

Network Rail is an accredited Disability Confident Leader. This means, where a disabled applicant meets the essential criteria for any of our vacancies, they will receive an interview.

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