Change Management Lead

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Change Management Lead required by our market leading, award winning, professional services client in Central Bristol on a hybrid basis. Our client is based a short 6-7 minute walk from Bristol Temple Meads Train Station and will offer you 2-3 days a week working from home with flexibility. This is an initial 12 month FTC which is likely to go permanent.
The successful Change Management Lead will report into the Transformation Director and will build and develop a Change function for the business. You will need to be passionate about change and have experience in building and coaching teams, while also bringing best practices, thought leadership and learning to help develop best in class ways of working with proven methodologies and tools.
Main Responsibilities:
* Lead the change workstream across multiple complex projects.
* Be a model of the mindset, behaviour and cultural change required and passionately advocate the benefits of Change Management across the business.
* Work closely with the Transformation Director and Programme Director to ensure that prioritised change activities are fully aligned to the business goals and objectives and have clearly define outcomes.
* Leveraging your experience and established change management methodologies e.g. PROSCI, define the change toolkit, templates and ways of working to consistently deliver change initiatives across the business.
* Develop the change management strategy and plans to support the business objectives and change initiatives.
* Define capabilities required in the Change Management team and provide leadership, coaching and guidance to team members.
* Take a hands-on, quality assurance role in ensuring that change activities are being managed consistently across projects and team members.
* Actively define and manage stakeholder mapping and engagement to ensure that senior leadership are fully engaged in supporting the deployment and adoption of change across the business and IT.
* Define and develop a change network of interested and engaged participants from across the business to embed effective change principles.
* Evaluate and support the business readiness for change through change impact assessments and measurement of employee satisfaction, solution adoption rates, etc.
* Ensure handover from Programme/Project deliverables into BAU and continuous improvement. It`s critical that change is seen as an ongoing consideration for continually developing, improving and embedding solutions and ways of working.
* Identifying and managing any risks to adoption and driving actions to mitigate them.
Required Background:
* Experience in setting up and managing Change Management teams.
* Ideally experience in technology led/enabled change (e.g. Salesforce, Oracle Fusion, SAP etc).
* Deep expertise in one or more Change Management topics, with good overall experience.
* Ideally should have Change Management certification (e.g. Prosci).
* Experience in developing internal Change Toolkits and implementing change ways of working across the business (to support future activity, not just programme).
* Experience and love of coaching more junior team members.
* Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
* Good project management skills.
* Very good senior stakeholder management skills.
This fantastic role comes with a salary of £(phone number removed) p/a and is accompanied with a 10% annual bonus, 25 days paid holiday, a flexible pension scheme, flexible working opportunities, shared Parental Leave - 18 weeks full pay, continued investment in your career, Bike to Work, discounts and many more