COE Senior Manager - Change Management About this role My client are recruiting for a COE Senior Manager – Change Management to join the organisation on a permanent basis, this role can be based from either one of their smart working locations London or Bristol offering flexible hybrid working. In addition to the three delivery teams, the CoE has a distinct set of specialist roles to support delivery across the function. These are a PMO, a Change Management Lead, a Communications Lead and a Finance Lead. This role is the Change Management lead, and the focus of the role is to own and deliver a Change Plan for the CoE that effectively aligns and manages multiple technical delivery streams into our end user stakeholder groups, ensuring readiness for, and adoption of, the new capabilities that are delivered. Key responsibilities
Sets the principles, processes and standards for effective change management
Owns and creates the CoE Change Plan, to align and manage multiple technical deliveries into our end user stakeholder groups
Builds and maintains strong stakeholder relationships both internally and externally to support change delivery objectives
Inputs to the technical delivery roadmap, representing the voice of our end user stakeholders, to ensure customer-centricity in our delivery planning
Provides regular reports on progress and issues to the CoE PMO, and works with the CoE functional leads to flag and resolve any identified issues
Collects and reviews feedback on change effectiveness to continually refine the Change Plan and approach
Key skills required Essentials:
Change management experience supporting either Finance or Digital transformation in a large organisation
Expert Consulting - You strategically nurture relationships with key decision makers, helping them to deliver critical business changes supported by a clear and well communicated change plan
Stakeholder Management - You own relationships with key internal and external stakeholders and use them to identify and understand upcoming change requirements. You bring expert guidance to optimise delivery of change activity
Best Practice - You champion change management best practice, high quality engagement standards and clarity of change planning. You make sure that our change capability supports the strategic change objectives of our business and clearly links to our business strategy
Agility - You manage and implement improvements to the work environment and ways of working. You implement collaborative working practices and continuous improvement
Benefits • 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) • Up to 15% on target bonus • Cash / Car allowance • Pension scheme • Private Medical cover • Share save scheme
If you meet the requirements and wish to apply, please contact me at thomas.owen@next-ventures.com
Please Note that this opportunity will not be able to offer candidate Sponsorship.