Business Change Lead

Business Change Lead
- Six month fixed term contract

Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to join us here at Yorkshire Water.

We offer a competitive salary of £50,622 - £63,277 per annum, depending on experience.

Annual incentive related bonus (£1000 maximum bonus opportunity for the performance year).

Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution).

Development opportunities in line with the Insert Business Change Lead progression plan.

Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary.

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays - plus an extra wellness two days!

A great benefits package - choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.

• Retail savings scheme.
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

Leeds Valley Park / Hybrid Working (a mix of office and home working).

Fixed Term Contract for six months, working full time 37 hours per week, Monday
- Friday between the working window of 8:00am-6:00pm.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Change Lead to join the Business Change Team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers, by playing a vital role in transforming our organisation. Could this be you?

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it's so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire's water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region's health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry.

The Business Change team at Yorkshire Water are playing a key role in how we modernise the organisation to better help us meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

As Business Change Lead you will be instrumental in delivering a wide variety of people centric business change to ensure our people, process and technology are aligned utilising proven change methodologies and your experience to apply as appropriate and that the business is ready to receive and adopt the change. This encompasses delivering large scale change initiatives, covering operating model changes, colleague engagement and technology transformation.

The role offers an individual the chance to make a real difference in transforming the organisation by supporting, guiding and enabling the business through change. With this, comes lots of opportunity for personal development within the role as you are working in a team of experienced Change Professionals and so much scope for change across the organisation for you to be involved in.

You will work closely with our Senior Business Change Managers and key stakeholders to ensure we guide, enable, and support the business through change, so it lands successfully and sustainably to improve the customer and colleague experience and supports the Company's performance commitments and drive for efficiency.

Work with key stakeholders and the business to complete detailed business impact assessments, and support Senior Business Change Managers and Programme Managers in the development of business change plans, acting as a bridge between programme management, business operations and IT.

Lead impact assessments, business change planning and business readiness activity for programme / project deliveries into your assigned business areas.

Help define activities that will successfully lead colleagues through the change journey utilising methodologies such as ADKAR.

Lead small change / improvement projects to improve ways of working for customers, colleagues and the business and help improve overall change maturity in the organisation.

Own and deliver communications and engagement strategies and plans to ready the business for change and to ensure change stories are engaging and effective.

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