Senior Change Manager

Position: Senior Change Manager - 6 month contract
Your new company
Our client is a leading maritime and geospatial organisation, providing critical data, insights and services that support global navigation, defence activities and the wider marine sector. Through innovation and specialist expertise, they help customers and partners gain a deeper understanding of the world's oceans and coastal environments.

Operating within a rapidly evolving industry, the organisation is responding to emerging challenges and opportunities including decarbonisation, digital transformation and increasing levels of automation.
To remain at the forefront of the sector, significant investment is being made in change capability, customer-focused transformation and digital ways of working. This is an exciting time to join a business focused on enhancing collaboration, strengthening organisational capabilities and delivering impactful change across a complex and dynamic environment.

Your new role
We are seeking an experienced Senior Change Manager to join the organisation on an initial 6-month contract, supporting the definition, design and delivery of ambitious transformation programmes.

This is a key leadership role responsible for driving business change activity, ensuring successful adoption of change initiatives and enabling the delivery of programme benefits and strategic outcomes. Working closely with senior stakeholders, programme managers and project managers, you will champion best-practice change management approaches, build strong internal and external networks, and assess the impact of change on stakeholders to maximise engagement and adoption.
Contract Details

6-month initial contract
£558 per day via Umbrella Company
Monday to Friday
Hybrid working model with 2 days per week in the office and 3 days working from home

Key Accountabilities Excellence

Lead and apply person-centred change management approaches and best practices throughout change definition, design and delivery.
Equip and empower leaders to effectively lead change within their areas.
Drive the continuous improvement of change management standards, tools and methodologies.

Collaboration

Foster strong working relationships across internal teams and external stakeholders.
Work closely with the wider change community to share expertise and drive consistency.
Build productive partnerships that support successful change delivery.

Innovation and Improvement

Connect and align change initiatives across programmes and business areas.
Lead, facilitate and coordinate change narratives, plans and activities.
Work across organisational boundaries to identify opportunities and encourage innovation.

Responsibility

Use stakeholder and people insights to shape change decisions and plans.
Lead the design and delivery of inclusive, measurable and value-adding change activities.
Identify and mitigate people-related risks associated with business transformation.

Key Responsibilities

Lead all change management elements associated with business cases and programme delivery.
Develop and own all required business change management products and documentation.
Engage and influence senior stakeholders across the organisation and wider portfolio.
Establish and maintain change plans, ensuring alignment with overall project plans.
Lead business readiness assessments and support go-live decisions alongside project teams and business stakeholders.
Partner with Benefits Managers and stakeholders to embed benefits realisation throughout the change lifecycle.
Identify, analyse and manage stakeholder groups, maintaining effective engagement plans.
Act as a primary point of contact for senior stakeholders on change-related matters.
Lead communication planning and content development, working with communications specialists where required.
Provide leadership, coaching and guidance to colleagues while supporting the development of change capability across the organisation.
Lead and coordinate business change activities across complex projects and programmes.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced change professional to play a pivotal role in delivering meaningful transformation within a complex, high-profile environment while enjoying a flexible hybrid working arrangement and competitive day rate.

What you'll need to succeed

Experience in applying change management and implementing best practice in a complex environment as part of a transformation programme or project.
Experience in applying project and change management to effectively manage change activity, risk, issues, impacts and achievement of benefits realisation in line with strategic objectives and within delivery governance.
Stakeholder engagement across internal and external networks
Defining, designing, planning, scheduling, and managing the implementation of change initiatives to ensure efficient delivery and alignment with other initiatives.
Continuous improvement
The candidate may hold some of the following qualifications and / or have membership to:
APMG Change Management Practitioner / Prosci / Change…