Global M&A Change Manager
Exciting opportunity for a Global M&A Change Manager to join a newly formed team with a leading international events, digital services and academic knowledge group.
Length: initial 6 months
Location: 2-3 days in London
IR35 Status: Outside
The M&A Change Manager's primary role is to empower colleagues to embrace the changes introduced through M&A initiatives, supporting the integration and driving the adoption of the processes, tools, and ways of working. The Change Manager will have the opportunity to work on a broad range of M&A technology-enabled change projects impacting colleagues across the client.
Typically the role will encompass the following;
- Develop Change Management Strategies: lead the design and delivery of end-to-end change management strategies to drive behavioural change and embed new roles and ways of working, processes and tools.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Identify and analyse key stakeholders impacted by changes, and create tailored engagement plans to address their concerns, expectations, and communication needs.
- Change Impact Assessment: Conduct thorough assessments to understand the impact of the change on various departments, teams, and individuals. Use findings to inform change management approaches.
- Communication Planning: Design and implement effective communication plans to ensure clear, consistent, and timely messaging about the change, its rationale, and its benefits. Create a persuasive case for change, producing communication and engagement materials and owning communications to stakeholders. Ensure all materials are designed and produced in a timely manner and align to wider messages.
- Change Readiness: Evaluate the organisation's readiness for change, identifying potential obstacles and areas requiring additional support or training
- Training and Development: Identify education and training requirements to equip employees with the skills and knowledge needed to adapt to the change effectively. Work closely with the Learning & Development Team to develop suitable solutions. Coordinate and deliver training programs.
- Resistance Management: Proactively identify and address sources of resistance to change, implementing strategies to overcome barriers and foster a positive change experience.
- Monitoring and Evaluation: Continuously monitor change progress, gather feedback, and measure the effectiveness of change management efforts. Make data-driven adjustments as necessary.
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks and challenges associated with the change process and develop risk mitigation plans to ensure a smooth transition
- Leadership Support: Provide guidance and support to team leaders throughout the change process, enabling them to effectively lead their teams through transformation
- Organisational Culture: Promote a culture of change readiness and adaptability, fostering a supportive environment for ongoing transformation
- Sustaining Change: Ensure that change efforts lead to lasting, positive outcomes, and work to embed changes into the organisation's culture
- Leverage appropriate change management methodology, process, and tools to create a strategy to support adoption of the changes required, whilst working in a highly federated, complex and international business.
Qualifications
- Considerable experience in developing and delivering change strategies for global organisations
- Application of change strategies in technology driven transformation programmes, specifically where the the transformation is enabled through mergers and/or acquisitions
- Working with agile design principles and a proven record in understanding end user and business need
- Exceptional communication and facilitation skills - well versed in communicating, presenting, and reporting to senior stakeholders. Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences.
- Ability to show empathy, listen actively and express ideas and facts in a clear and confident manner
- Ability to influence without authority and report, present, manage meetings and facilitate effectively
- Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships, and ability to influence others to move towards a common vision or goal.
- Data-driven decision-making approach with evidence of use of clear insights and compelling data sets.
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.