Our client, a leading organisation within the defence and security sector, is seeking a Change Manager for a contract role supporting a portfolio of strategic change initiatives. The role will focus on delivering well-defined work packages across multiple projects, with a strong emphasis on safety, stakeholder engagement and successful user adoption.
Key Responsibilities:
- Delivering business change activities across approximately two to three projects and workstreams
- Preparing change impact assessments, change management plans and stakeholder maps
- Supporting projects including MVS change activity and airspace initiatives involving airport and air traffic control stakeholders
- Building strong relationships with stakeholders and bringing people on the change journey
- Identifying and managing resistance to change, ensuring solutions are adopted effectively
- Driving delivery forward at pace across defined work packages and high-priority strategic outcomes
- Working alongside communications specialists to coordinate engagement and support effective messaging
- Applying people-focused change practices within a safety-critical environment
Job Requirements:
- Significant experience in business change management or change management delivery
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage people across operational and technical environments
- Experience conducting change impact assessments and developing practical change management plans
- Understanding of people-side change, adoption strategies and resistance management
- Ability to take ownership of established work packages and deliver outcomes at pace
- Experience supporting change across multiple projects or strategic workstreams
- Excellent communication, facilitation, organisation and relationship-building skills
- Prosci experience would be advantageous, alongside an open approach to using established internal change methodologies and tools
Contract Details:
- Contract duration of approximately six to nine months
- Hybrid working, with around two days per week onsite and flexibility according to project requirements
- Opportunity to contribute to important defence and security change programmes
- Work within an established change practitioner team with existing internal relationships
If you are an experienced Change Manager with a strong record of delivering business change, stakeholder engagement and user adoption in complex environments, apply now to support our client's strategic change portfolio.
