Change Manager

Role Title: Change Manger
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Knutsford (2/3 Days per week)
Rate: £485 - £515 per day - Umbrella only

Would you like to join a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation?

Our client is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms.

Role purpose / summary

The Operational Change Team manages non-technical delivery, which supports the internal CSO capability & operation, ensuring robust governance wrapper applied to all activity. Working independently or interlocked with CSO technical transformation activity delivering embed & business readiness capability in lockstep.

The Operational Change Manager (AVP) is responsible for delivering change activities supporting the development of CSO. They will be responsible for ensuring all aspects of assigned are scoped, planned, tracked, and managed to successful completion. As the business strategy alters over the time, the manager will need to adjust or re-align delivery / priorities accordingly

Key Accountabilities:

• The Operational Change manager will lead in the creation, communication and implementation of Operational Change Initiatives in CSO.
• They will work with the PMO to support initiative as necessary; creation & maintenance of detailed project plans covering all deliverables (process, people, IT, control) and dependencies while actively assessing and managing risk; removing / reducing barriers towards realizing goals, ensuring mitigation actions are in place & managed.
• Deliver status reporting by providing against milestones, and transparency of risks and issues and will have to coordinate direct and matrix management of internal and third party resources.
• They will be responsible for creating communication materials for multiple levels of stakeholders and actively manage day to day activities while ensuring delivery accountability is in place.
• They will ensure that their projects and initiatives meet the agreed delivery requirements and that acceptance are managed against agreed acceptance criteria and to a defined plan.

Key Skills/ requirements

• Experience of working on Operational Change activity with good understanding of Change frameworks.
• Relationship building, stakeholder management and great communication skills.
• Through Agility in approach and thinking, demonstrate ability to challenge and offer alternative creative solutions to progress at speed and with quality.
• Ability to make evaluative judgements based on analysis to resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in leading and managing multiple stakeholders within a complex matrix environment across multiple geographies.
• Experience of project mobilisation, initiation and planning in addition to management of established projects.
• Demonstrable security awareness, and understanding of security in the broad business context
• Skilled in the use of Microsoft Office, including spreadsheets, presentation tools, word processing and Project, and Programme Management software tools.

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!