Contract - Business Change Project Manager

At Honda we embrace inclusion in our various policies, so whilst our contracts state that the hours are as required to fulfil the role with a minimum of 35 hours per week, we offer flexibility for when you work. The regular office hours are 08:00 – 16:00 Monday to Thursday with a half hour lunch break & 08:00 – 13:00 on a Friday. However, we offer flexibility of when you work with our daily flex-time start of between 07:00 and 11:00 providing that there is no business requirement. Whilst there is no contractual right to work from home, the flexibility we offer is that you can request to work from home 2 days per week, again providing there is no business requirement to attend the office.

Role

We are seeking a highly experienced and proactive Business Change Project Manager to support key transformation programmes within Honda Motor Europe. In particular, this role will lead the continued rollout and optimisation of a major European direct-to-consumer sales pilot in UK, while also supporting the deployment of new CRM technologies designed to enhance performance. Operating in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment, you will manage a complex landscape of stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and external partners — working with autonomy and confidence to ensure delivery. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of people, process, and technology, requiring exceptional change leadership, strong commercial acumen, and the ability to turn strategic intent into real-world results. You’ll need to be highly people-savvy — capable of building trust, gaining alignment, and winning hearts and minds across all levels of the programme to drive momentum and achieve meaningful outcomes.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of business change projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives
• Develops and maintains detailed project plans, timelines, and deliverables for business change initiatives.
• Leads and motivates the project team to achieve project goals while fostering a collaborative environment.
• Engages and influences stakeholders at all levels, ensuring buy-in and support for change initiatives.
• Drives effective communication and change adoption strategies across impacted teams.
• Works closely with technical project manager to ensure business change activity aligns with technical timelines and requirements.
• Identifies, assesses, and mitigates project risks and issues, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations
• Ensures project deliverables meet quality standards.
• Produces and maintains Project Charter, including defining scope and objectives.
• Tracks project performance making adjustments to schedules and plans when needed
• Manages changes to project scope, schedule, and costs, ensuring all stakeholders are informed.
• Adheres to the programme communication plan, including providing project status reports.
• Escalates key risks/issues to programme management team.
• Ensures project team adhere to programme ways of working.

Required Qualifications, skills and experience:

• Proven track record in managing complex business change projects on fast-moving, multi-faceted transformation programmes.
• A self-starter, able to identify their own priorities and the key activities to keep a programme successfully moving at pace.
• Exceptional communication skills. Able to influence, persuade, and communicate with a diverse stakeholder pool.
• Able to communicate appropriate, concise, and accurate information in written and verbal formats.
• A confident leader able to influence stakeholder buy in and outputs.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
• Able to take full responsibility and ownership for completion of tasks.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence without direct authority.
• Comfortable under pressure, and able to manage multiple diverse tasks within a short time-line.
• Concern for accuracy: Desire to ensure accuracy and quality in work delivered.
• Prior experience of working in an international matrixed organisation.

Honda is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in the workplace for all employees, temporary workers, contractors, applicants and visitors. Honda also encourages respect for the individual differences and talents of others while making full use of one's own abilities, based on Honda's philosophy of respect for the individual. At Honda, we value and celebrate diversity and are committed to being a fair, non-discriminatory company that promotes and welcomes the uniqueness and differences of people around the world. We recognise that a diverse workforce allows for different ideas and perspectives, and we encourage everyone to share them. We strive to foster a culture of belonging that is consistent with Honda's core values and lived out in the way we work and respect each other. For us at Honda, diversifying our workforce means increasing its overall strength by providing people with equal opportunities - regardless of personal characteristics or previous careers. This commitment flows directly from the Honda philosophy and the belief that we are all working towards a common goal. Honda recruits, hires, trains and promotes the most qualified/experienced individuals at all levels without regard to race, origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other protected characteristic.