Director, Organisational Change Management - 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

Please note that this role is based in the United Kingdom. To enable us to meet the statutory and regulatory obligations of the United Kingdom immigration system, you must have the appropriate immigration permission needed to work and reside in the United Kingdom for the duration of the employment.

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a leading creator and distributor of entertainment products, services, and technology, with a global footprint spanning film, television, and digital content.

Sony Pictures Television Distribution is embarking on a significant multi-year business transformation programme designed to modernise how the organisation operates across people, processes, data, and technology. This transformation will simplify and standardise ways of working, enhance business capabilities, and establish a stronger foundation to support future growth and innovation.

To help deliver this ambitious programme, we are establishing a new Business Transformation team within TV Distribution. We are seeking a Director, Organisational Change Management on a 12-month fixed-term contract to lead the people side of the transformation. Working across a portfolio of strategic initiatives, this role will define and execute the organisational change strategy, partnering closely with executive sponsors, programme leadership, and business stakeholders to accelerate adoption, build organisational capability, and embed lasting behavioural change.

This is a highly visible leadership role requiring both strategic thinking and hands‑on execution. The successful candidate will play a critical role in helping leaders and employees successfully navigate change while establishing the organisational change capability that will support the wider transformation programme.

• Define and execute a line of business organisational change strategy that supports a portfolio of strategic business transformation initiatives.
• Establish scalable change management frameworks, governance, methodologies, tools, and standards for the Business Transformation function.
• Align change strategies with programme objectives, business outcomes, adoption goals, and value realisation.
• Develop and maintain an integrated change roadmap across multiple initiatives, ensuring a coordinated approach to organisational change.

• Lead organisational adoption strategies that drive sustainable behavioural change and successful business outcomes.
• Define and monitor adoption KPIs, business readiness measures, and success metrics across the transformation portfolio.
• Assess organisational readiness and implement interventions to address adoption risks before key delivery milestones.
• Design and deliver change interventions that extend beyond communications and training to achieve lasting behavioural and organisational change.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive sponsors, programme leadership, and senior business stakeholders on organisational change, adoption, and business readiness.
• Coach leaders to visibly sponsor and lead change across their functions.
• Facilitate executive alignment and support governance forums, steering committees, and strategic decision-making.
• Build trusted relationships across business, technology, HR, and project delivery teams to ensure change is embedded throughout programme delivery.

• Provide hands‑on change leadership across priority transformation initiatives, rapidly building an understanding of business challenges and delivery objectives.
• Develop and execute integrated change plans covering stakeholder engagement, communications, capability development, learning, business readiness, and reinforcement activities.
• Partner closely with programme and project teams to embed change activities into delivery plans, governance, and implementation approaches.

• Assess cumulative change impacts across initiatives and proactively manage organisational change capacity.
• Identify portfolio-level risks, dependencies, and stakeholder impacts, recommending…