Business Change Manager - Reed : Job Details

An organisation within the public sector is growing and they are currently recruiting for a Business Change Manager to join the team a fulltime permanent basis.

You would join the Change Pillar division who is responsible for overseeing change activity across the Network by applying the Business Change framework, tools and methodology to help the business to understand, prepare, adopt and embed change.

The role will be based in central London and you will be offered hybrid working, which is 2 days on site required per week.

Job Purpose 

The purpose of this role is to provide change management support, training, guidance and assurance to deliver change in a way that minimises disruption to operational delivery, build capabilities and realise benefits.

Key Responsibilities

Support the Business Change Leads and/or Project/Programme Managers in delivering effective business change interventions to realise benefits across the Network, by:

• Utilising the business change framework, toolkit, templates and approaches, and contributing to continuous improvement of these.
• Ensuring rigorous, objective business change documents are created and updated, recommending and delivering interventions to mitigate any negative implications and ensuring all benefits are identified and realised.
• Developing business change solutions or interventions to help overcome potential barriers, improve performance and ensure the smooth delivery of the programme / project objectives.

• Considering and mitigating for the cumulative impact on business areas implementing the change, and escalate these trends / issues to the Business Change Lead.
• Working with Regional Change Teams to build their change management capability and to facilitate the use of consistent Business Change tools and techniques to ensure that change is managed effectively at regional level.
• Working with Business Design to ensure that design is realistically deliverable from a business perspective and that the Change Network are engaged in business assurance of regional design where appropriate.
• Actively engaging and coaching those responsible for delivery of programmes and projects in the application of good change management and encouraging an inclusive working culture.
• Providing business change input into all governance documents including business cases, CCRs, status reports etc to ensure successful and timely programme/project delivery.

Essential Experience

• Experience of facilitating groups, balancing conflicting opinions, resolving disputes and building consensus as necessary.
• Experience of listening and understanding to the needs and experiences of customers and using these to develop solutions or interventions to improve performance and achieve organisational outcomes.

• Experience of business change - including planning, managing and implementing change delivered by projects/programmes/portfolios.
• Experience at supporting the management of organisational change blockers and issues to resolution.

The Package

• A competitive salary
• Alpha civil service pension (27.9% employers contribution)
• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Note the successful candidates must hold or be prepared to undergo National Security Vetting Security Check (enhanced) SCe level, with a willingness to undergo Developed Vetting (DV) once in post, if required

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