Change Project Manager
Posted 4 days ago by DC Thomson
Negotiable
Fixed-Term
Undetermined
Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary: The People & Culture Change Adoption Manager at DC Thomson plays a crucial role in facilitating organizational change by ensuring new operating models and practices are effectively adopted and sustained. This position focuses on bridging organizational design with behavior change, empowering leaders and teams to develop the necessary skills and habits for success. The role is high-impact, aimed at translating strategic ambitions into actionable outcomes in a rapidly evolving environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Embedding new ways of working
- Translating organizational design and target operating models into practical, sustainable working practices
- Aligning roles, processes, behaviors, and governance routines to strategic outcomes
- Designing and delivering behavior change and culture interventions
- Enabling consistent, people-centered change across business units
- Partnering with People & Culture colleagues and leaders for structured change management
- Ensuring organizational readiness, engagement, and adoption during periods of change
- Supporting the transition towards a skills-based organization
- Using data and insights to assess change effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities
Key Skills:
- Experience embedding organizational design and operating model change
- Deep understanding of people-centered change and adoption practices
- Strong relationship-building skills across complex, matrix environments
- Confidence using data and insight to inform decisions and measure progress
- Experience working at pace across multiple initiatives and stakeholders
- Organization Design & Implementation
- Organizational Change Management
- Business Process Improvement
- Facilitation & Insight
- Project Delivery
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Dundee
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
DC Thomson is a premium content and services business with a heritage in storytelling and a future rooted in digital innovation. Across media, publishing, technology and genealogy, our talented teams create trusted brands and experiences used by millions worldwide. As we continue to evolve in response to digital disruption, changing audience behaviours and new technology models, we’re re-imagining how we work, becoming more skills-based, outcome-driven and people-centred.
ROLE PURPOSE: We’re looking for a People & Culture Change Adoption Manager to help accelerate and embed that transformation. This role sits at the heart of organisational change, ensuring that new operating models, structures and ways of working don’t just get designed: they get adopted, sustained and lived every day. Working across our diverse portfolio, you’ll strengthen the bridge between organisational design and behaviour change, helping leaders and teams build the habits, capabilities and rhythms needed to deliver strategy in a fast-changing environment. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives on turning ambition into action and change into measurable outcomes.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Embedding new ways of working
- Translate organisational design and target operating models into practical, sustainable working practices
- Align roles, processes, behaviours and governance routines to strategic outcomes
- Driving behaviour and culture change
- Design and deliver behaviour change and culture interventions that support leadership effectiveness and team adoption
- Enable consistent, people-centred change across business units
- Supporting transformation delivery
- Partner with People & Culture colleagues and leaders to provide structured change management expertise
- Ensure organisational readiness, engagement and adoption during periods of change
- Enabling workforce capability and skills
- Support DC Thomson’s transition towards a skills-based organisation
- Align learning, capability development and skills data to operating model needs
- Using insight to improve impact
- Use data, people analytics and qualitative insight to assess change effectiveness
- Identify blockers, risks and opportunities to continuously improve delivery
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE:
- High adoption of new operating models and ways of working
- Visible shifts in leadership and team behaviours aligned to our desired culture
- Improved governance rhythms, collaboration and delivery cadence
- Strong alignment between workforce skills and strategic needs
- Sustainable transformation outcomes that improve performance, efficiency or customer impact
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
- Experience embedding organisational design and operating model change
- Deep understanding of people-centred change and adoption practices
- Strong relationship-building skills across complex, matrix environments
- Confidence using data and insight to inform decisions and measure progress
- Experience working at pace across multiple initiatives and stakeholders
- Key Skills: Oganisation Design & Implementation, Organisational Change Management, Business Process Improvement, Facilitation & Insight and Project Delivery
This role a 6 month Fixed Term Contract. To apply for this role, please follow our online application process and submit a CV and cover letter. Closing date for applications: 30 th April 2026 at 12:00noon