Transformation Lead

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated over 28 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Our expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly changing Digital‑First world we live in. We foster strong partnerships with leading technology giants including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, Out Systems, and Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ strong team, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We're looking for an exceptional Change & Transformation Lead to establish and grow our change and transformation capability. This is a pivotal role that combines hands‑on client delivery with capability building, business development, and practice leadership. You will shape how Version 1 delivers change and transformation consulting while building a thriving community of practice.

• Extensive proven experience applying established change management methodologies such as ADKAR, PROSCI, Kotter's 8‑Step Process, or Lean Change Management.
• Ability to assess organisational readiness for change, identify risks and barriers, and design tailored change strategies.
• Highly skilled at stakeholder mapping and engagement—identifying change champions, resistors, and influencers across all levels of an organisation.
• Design and delivery of sophisticated change communications, training plans, and adoption strategies.
• Understanding of how to measure change success through adoption metrics, behaviour change indicators, and cultural assessment.
• Significant experience creating change impact assessments and transition plans.
• Accomplished at coaching leaders and teams through transformation, building internal change capability.

• Strong track record of leading complex change programmes from initiation through to embedding.
• Skilled at rapidly assessing and mapping organisations—understanding structures, cultures, processes, and ways of working.
• Facilitating discovery sessions to uncover pain points, blockers, and opportunities for transformation.
• Facilitating high‑level collaborative workshops that bring together diverse stakeholders to define transformation goals.
• Translating strategic ambitions into actionable change initiatives.
• Designing and implementing change interventions—from capability building and process redesign to cultural change initiatives.
• Adapting change approaches based on feedback and emerging insights.
• Highly skilled at navigating difficult conversations and resistance at senior levels.

• Identifying change and transformation opportunities within existing client relationships.
• Confident presenting to senior stakeholders and C‑suite executives about the value of change management.
• Translating client challenges into compelling propositions and statements of work.
• Experience contributing to bids, proposals, and pre‑sales activities.
• Articulating the business case for change management investment.
• Positioning change work alongside technical delivery.
• Building trusted advisor relationships that lead to repeat business.

• Reviewing change plans, strategies, and deliverables to ensure quality and rigour.
• Spotting risks and issues in change delivery and providing constructive guidance.
• Supporting consultants when they encounter blockers or challenges.
• Escalating concerns constructively.
• Providing coaching and mentoring to less experienced practitioners.
• Comfortable having difficult conversations about delivery quality or approach.
• Balancing support with accountability.

• Experience building communities of practice, including facilitating sessions and creating engagement.
• Developing knowledge assets such as frameworks, templates, playbooks, and case studies.
• Capturing and codifying lessons learned from client work.
• Designing…