Senior Business Change Manager

Salary: £66,000 per year

James Stevens Associates are delighted to be working with a Housing Association that are on the lookout for a Senior Business Change Manager.

• Role: Senior Business Change Manager
• Salary: £66,000
• Format: Hybrid – Remote & In Office Occasionally
• Based: Bedfordshire/Luton

Benefits:

• Flexible working arrangements

• Learning and Development opportunities – they invest in your development / accreditations/certifications!

• 27 days paid annual leave up to a maximum of 30 days

• The opportunity to buy and sell up to five days’ of annual leave each year

• Two additional paid volunteering days each year

• Enhanced family friendly leave schemes

• A generous salary sacrifice pension scheme

• A healthcare cashback plan for you

• Access to free mobile phone insurance

The role:

• As part of the Change Team, the Business Change Manager will play a key role in ensuring projects meet objectives on time and on budget by increasing adoption and usage.
• This person will focus on the people side including changes to business processes, systems, job roles and organisation structures.
• You will support a small team of change professionals and assist with projects by: coordinating business change activities to identify and support the realisation of business outcomes, conducting impact analysis to help develop and execute the change management strategy and plan, minimising resistance and enabling sustainable change.

• You will work closely and collaboratively with business sponsors, business stakeholders, change team, HR and IT colleagues establishing appropriate engagement.
• One of our core priorities across all parts of the business is delivering an excellent experience every time to every customer, internal and external.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience working in cross-functional teams on programmes and projects in a change management role (not a project management role)
• A solid understanding on how people go through change and the change process; ideally with an experience of the Prosci ADKAR® model and/or APMG Change Management
• Ability to support multiple programmes, projects and tasks of varying complexities and priorities in parallel
• Ability to work within an environment which is not always structured
• Ability to establish and maintain strong relationship, engaging and building trust with stakeholders for effective people outcomes, specifically People and Culture teams (L&D, Communications, Brand and Engagement)
• An excellent communicator, who has impactful presence and can easily simplify messaging, and incorporate storytelling