Senior Business Change Manager

Senior Business Change Manager

£85,000 plus 20% bonus, strong benefit package and pension

London / remote

A permanent Change Management opportunity has become available to join an established team as Senior Manager within a Household brand business.

The Senior Business Change Manager plays a key part of the Business Change management team and will recruit, lead and manage a team of Business Change Managers and Business Change Specialists and is responsible for fostering a high-performance culture.

The role is responsible for managing the change management pipeline of demand, ensuring change initiatives are appropriately resourced and Business Change Managers/Specialists have stretching assignments. The role also actively leads the development and embedding of Business Change Practice and wider change activation networks.

Role overview

Lead change management efforts on key transformation initiatives:

• Act as a trusted partner to leadership teams, leading the development of comprehensive business change approaches/strategies within transformation programmes or an organisational area/domain
• Lead on change management activities to drive a deep understanding of change impacts in complex environments through change impact assessments and stakeholder analysis
• Employ appropriate change management methodologies to create conditions for a smooth transition that enables transformation change to embed
• Work in collaboration with other change activation teams (e.g Organisation Design, HR Business Partners, L&D, Internal Communications and Industrial Relations) to ensure the embedding of transformation change

Team management:

• Ensure the business change resource demands are met within the organisational area/domain ensuring business cases include business change budgets where appropriate
• Recruit, lead, mentor and coach the business change team, ensuring training plans and learning opportunities are established, driving career development

KEY SKILLS REQUIRED

• Deep change management experience gained through leading several complex change transformation initiatives end-to-end
• Certified in Change Management (e.g. APMG/Prosci) with experience of leading business change activities across a range of delivery methods, including agile, waterfall and hybrid
• Strong commercial acumen, able to apply knowledge of internal and external business environments to consider the bottom-line impact of a range of solutions, maximising benefits whilst balancing risks
• Strong people leadership experience with a proven record of leading and coaching high performing business change teams
• Skilled ability to perform synthesis and analysis working at a strategic level, translating into action
• Comfortable challenging leaders, managing conflict and re-mediating situations to drive alignment, soluitions and a clear direction of travel
• High level of flexibility with a proven record of leading others successfully through cultural, process, system and transformational change
• Curious with a strong desire to understand more about business problems, change impacts, change initiatives and ways of working
• Resilient and able to work under pressure, skilled at handling complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty

Interested? Apply without delay to Investigo.