Change Management Specialist

Position Title

Change Management Specialist

6 Month Contract

Wolverhampton

Applicants MUST have proof of immediate, on-going and valid eligibility to work full time in the UK and travel within the EU.

• Responsible for planning and executing business change management, driving adoption for new manufacturing systems.
• Focuses on changes to business processes and tools.
• Applies change management methodologies, communication planning, organisational readiness assessment and stakeholder analyses.
• Ability to develop communication and change management plans, and oversee or monitor the execution to ensure adoption and minimal disruption of normal business operations.
• Level: A Senior Professional (P3) applies advanced knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience.

• Key activities include:
• Describing and communicating impact of process changes on business roles understanding and articulating the as-is and to-be states via multiple medias
• Defining a Change Strategy, agreed with the impacted managers, and delivering on that contract
• Onboarding Early Adopters and Super Users, usually via a Transition Network
• Creating the Stakeholder Matrix and Audience Analysis
• Managing stakeholders and end users in scope for deployment activities
• Hosting process walk-throughs / workshops with the SME's, process authors and relevant business users; asking key questions to understand the changes and recording them
• Conducting Business Change Impact Assessments with relevant stakeholders to inform the training team of the changes and enable the creation of a robust change plan
• Creating stakeholder communication and engagement plans; supporting the communication of these to relevant end users
• Develop, create and maintain reporting of the development of global business processes maturity
• Host engagement events and system showcases
• Complete and maintain change, communications and readiness plans
• Creating and maintaining new relationships with identified key stakeholders
• This role is midlands-based and on-site and travelling is expected between sites.
• There will be occasional travel to our Liverpool (Halewood) facility.

• You’ll need a good understanding of multiple change frameworks with experience of the tools required to execute them
• Strong presentation skills
• Experience of in person collaboration and cross functional team working
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Create and align standard timing plans for business change and readiness
• You’ll need to critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
• You’ll need to liaise between the business, technology teams and support teams
• You’ll need a relevant accreditation or equivalent working experience preferred