Senior Change Manager: Agile
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Senior Change Manager: new Agile TOM
A permanent Change Management opportunity has become available to join an established team as Senior Manager within a Household brand business.
The Senior Business Change Manager plays a key part of the Business Change management team and will recruit, lead and manage a team of Business Change Managers and Business Change Specialists and is responsible for fostering a high-performance culture.
The role is responsible for managing the change management pipeline of demand, ensuring change initiatives are appropriately resourced and Business Change Managers/Specialists have stretching assignments. The role also actively leads the development and embedding of Business Change Practice and wider change activation networks.
Key deliverable - move to Product led project teams and greater collaboration
Role overview
Lead change management efforts on key transformation initiatives:
- Act as a trusted partner to leadership teams, leading the development of comprehensive business change approaches/strategies within transformation programmes or an organisational area/domain
- Lead on change management activities to drive a deep understanding of change impacts in complex environments through change impact assessments and stakeholder analysis
- Employ appropriate change management methodologies to create conditions for a smooth transition that enables transformation change to embed
- Work in collaboration with other change activation teams (e.g Organisation Design, HR Business Partners, L&D, Internal Communications and Industrial Relations) to ensure the embedding of transformation change
Team management:
- Ensure the business change resource demands are met within the organisational area/domain ensuring business cases include business change budgets where appropriate
- Recruit, lead, mentor and coach the business change team, ensuring training plans and learning opportunities are established, driving career development
KEY SKILLS REQUIRED
- Deep change management experience gained through leading several complex change transformation initiatives end-to-end
- Certified in Change Management (e.g. APMG/Prosci) with experience of leading business change activities across a range of delivery methods, including agile, waterfall and hybrid
- Strong commercial acumen, able to apply knowledge of internal and external business environments to consider the bottom-line impact of a range of solutions, maximising benefits whilst balancing risks
- Strong people leadership experience with a proven record of leading and coaching high performing business change teams
- Skilled ability to perform synthesis and analysis working at a strategic level, translating into action
- Comfortable challenging leaders, managing conflict and re-mediating situations to drive alignment, soluitions and a clear direction of travel
- High level of flexibility with a proven record of leading others successfully through cultural, process, system and transformational change
- Curious with a strong desire to understand more about business problems, change impacts, change initiatives and ways of working
- Resilient and able to work under pressure, skilled at handling complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty
Interested? Apply without delay to Investigo.