Business Change Manager

My client, a leading organisation within the public sector, is seeking an experienced Business Change Manager to support the delivery of transformational change across a national operational network. This is a 6-month contract paying £575 per day Inside IR35, requiring 3 days per week onsite.

Working within a dedicated Change function, you will support complex programmes and projects, helping stakeholders understand, adopt and embed change while minimising operational disruption and maximising business benefits.

Responsibilities

• Deliver business change activities across complex programmes and projects.
• Conduct change impact assessments, readiness assessments and stakeholder analysis.
• Develop and maintain communication, engagement and benefit realisation plans.
• Identify organisational risks, barriers and dependencies, implementing appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Capture stakeholder feedback and insights to support successful change adoption.
• Support regional change teams through coaching, guidance and knowledge sharing.
• Work closely with HR, Communications, Benefits and Business Design teams.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of business change frameworks, methodologies and tools.
• Provide business change input into governance documentation, business cases and programme reporting.
• Support programme and project teams in applying effective change management practices.

Key Skills & Experience

• Proven experience working as a Business Change Manager within complex project, programme or portfolio environments.
• Recent public sector experience.
• Experience delivering organisational change, stakeholder engagement and change adoption activities.
• Strong experience conducting change impact assessments, readiness assessments and stakeholder analysis.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience identifying and resolving organisational change challenges and blockers.
• Strong planning and organisational abilities with the capability to manage competing priorities.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills including Word and PowerPoint.

Additional Requirements

• Active or previously held CTC, SC, NPPV or DV Security Clearance.
• Prosci Practitioner and/or APMG Change Management qualifications desirable.
• Previous experience within policing, government, defence, security or similarly regulated environments would be advantageous.
• Ability to work onsite 3 days per week.