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The Business Change Specialist will be responsible for managing stakeholders and coordinating a team of business change officers, whilst owning end to end business change activities, project plans and governance across a portfolio of projects, which involve people, process and technology. They are seeking someone that is used to driving people change initiatives using Prosci ADKAR methodologies, with a strong focus on business readiness, end user adoption and benefits realisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct Change Impact Assessments to define requirements, scope readiness, and ensure alignment with business designs.

• Design and deliver Business Change activities aligned with project plans, governance, and methodologies.

• Perform stakeholder analysis to plan effective engagement and communication strategies.

• Lead and oversee Business Change Officers, ensuring quality and consistency of outputs.

• Facilitate Operational Readiness Assessments, track actions, and report progress and risks to senior stakeholders.

• Produce key change artefacts such as CIAs, Training Plans, Communication Plans, and Transition Plans.

• Develop and implement Early Life Support plans, supporting operational teams’ post-implementation.

• Monitor benefits realisation with operational owners across all project phases.

• Continuously improve change practices by applying leading methodologies and identifying enhancement opportunities.

• Proven track record of working in a Business Change role on a range of projects at varying levels of size and complexity, across the full project lifecycle.

• Previous experience of leading a Business Readiness or Change Adoption workstream for a large project or programme.

• Experience of Change Management methodologies and standards such as Prosci ADKAR, with a proven track record of delivering readiness activities through the application of best practice tools and techniques.

• Significant Business Change experience and prior coverage of delivering in waterfall and iterative methodologies.

• Proven track record in the definition and delivery of plans that enable the implementation of new processes and technology, with minimal disruption to operations.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to effectively lead, facilitate and provide constructive challenge.

• Proven ability to engage and influence at all levels with excellent written, numerical, facilitation and presentation skills.

• Recognised Change Management qualification is highly desirable i.e. Prosci or APMG Change Management Practitioner.

You can expect a competitive salary in the region of £48,136 (depending on experience) along with a range of benefits including membership to a private healthcare scheme, contributory pension, flexible working, 25 days holiday (option to purchase up to 5 additional days) and hybrid working (2 to 3 days a week in the Oldham office).

*Please only apply if you have the skills/experience listed above and live within a commutable distance to Oldham.