Business Change Manager

Manchester, Lancashire
Michael Page Technology

Are you a Business Change Manager looking for an exciting, new opportunity? If so, this role may be for you!

• Fully flexible working with only fortnightly visits to the Manchester office required
• Brand new role within a growing business with lots of change to manage and drive across workstreams

Client Details

Our client is a National business who are growing rapidly; with lots of growth comes lots of change and this is why they are recruiting for a Business Change Manager to join their team on a permanent basis.

They are one of the largest and fastest-growing within the sector, focusing digitally-focused, data-led customer experiences. With 9,000 dedicated professionals across 150 locations, they have a large presence and local knowledge across 6 continents.

Our client put their employees at the forefront of everything they do, promoting work/life balance across all functions of the business. If you’re looking for somewhere to really make a difference, have lots of interesting work to get stuck into and be able to enjoy your personal life too, this is a great place to be.

Description

As Business Change Manager, you will hold accountability for leading, driving, coordinating and controlling the delivery of Change Projects to agreed Time, Cost and Quality measures. In this role, you will be expected to manage a variety of medium or large projects across multiple workstreams within the business; IT, HR, Legal, Commercial, Regulatory, Pricing etc.

Through the coordination of the multiple workstream leads and stakeholders, you will ensure that all tasks and activities identified within each project plan are delivered to agreed cost, time, quality, scope whilst assuring benefits are aligned.

You will also:

• Use a variety of project management techniques and innovative ways of working to deliver change at pace
• Manage internal and external stakeholders and suppliers to ensure effective project delivery
• Ensure safe implementation of Business Change through active engagement and collaboration with impacted business areas
• Drive a high performance culture, owning your development plan and learning about industry best practice
• Act as a role model for the Department, delivering professional Business Change and Integration projects
• Implement, manage and execute appropriate project processes and controls, in line with project governance frameworks, to ensure effective governance and control of the projectthroughoutitslifecycle. This includes, but is not limited to:
  • Finances & Resourcing: robust cost challenge and management (budgets, forecasting, resource utilisation)
  • Risk & Issue Management: Appropriate identification, management and resolution
  • Planning: Creation of detailed project plans with teams, ongoing management, dependency management
  • Scope control: robust management of scope and use of change control
  • Benefits Management: Drive in the plan and support Business Owners in management and realisation
  • Reporting: Simple, concise, accurate project reporting suitable for Exec audience and team

You will know how to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels as you lead multi-disciplined teams to ensure safe delivery of change, whilst chairing governance sessions with the Executive team providing clear, efficient, and meaningful reporting targeting exceptions

Profile

The successful candidate will have solid experience as a Business Change Manager, preferably within the financial services/insurance sector or having worked in another heavily regulated environment. If you have experience of managing change in line with mergers or acquisitons, that will be a huge benefit to our client.

You will have experience working to drive change across multiple areas within a business, not just systems & IT. The successful candidate will have experience with strategy setting and governance/regulatory type work.

Any change management qualifications are welcomed; APMG, Lean Six Sigma etc.

Job Offer

• Competitive salary up to £67,000
• Fully flexible working (fortnightly visits into office as a minimum)
• Annual performance based bonus
• Life Assurance
• Level of private health-care
• Pension contribution
• Other benefits TBC