Job title: Change Manager
Location: Welwyn Garden City
Duration: 12 months
Adecco is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.
The role:
You will be part of a small but growing change team within a wider Centre of Excellence team and will be expected to work on a broad range of projects that will touch all areas of the organisation, from senior leaders to colleagues "on the ground". As well as change delivery, the candidate will have an opportunity to be involved in maturing the Change capability, shaping change management approaches and methods delivered by the CoE. This role will balance exceptional delivery for internal customers on what matters, engaging teams and colleagues, with the needs of the business.
Responsibilities:
- Create, maintain, and execute change management plans on assigned projects, in alignment with the Finance Change CoE Toolkit, to drive behavioural change and embed new business processes. Facilitate change impact assessments; identify and manage people change RAID considerations; monitor the success of change plans and adapt accordingly. Ensure that Training, Knowledge, Communication and Process ownership are coordinated across the project/programme.
- Work with Internal Communications to ensure relevant programme change communications and materials are designed and produced in a timely manner, aligned to broader comms messages. Harness different comms/engagement levers; innovative approaches are encouraged.
- Identify, manage, and communicate effectively with a diverse group of partners (e.g., senior leaders, managers, SMEs) throughout the project lifecycle to develop change strategies, assess readiness for change, anticipate and remove blockers, and prepare affected business areas for the transition to new ways of working. Able to show empathy, listen actively and express ideas and facts in a clear and confident manner both verbally and non-verbally. This includes reporting, presentation skills, meeting management, and facilitation.
Requirements:
- Personable, relatable character able to build relationships with a diverse set of stakeholders.
- Specific experience operating in the role of Change Manager is essential.
- Experience of working in a 'set up' environment and the ability to deal with ambiguity as processes, standards, and governance change.
- Experience in defining change and engagement strategies within a large organisation.
- Experience in crafting and delivering change management and behavioural change initiatives to embed new ways of working across broad groups of partners.
Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.
Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.