Senior Change Manager, £900 per day inside IR35

12 month initially, London & Remote Working

Bench IT require an experienced Senior Change Manager to assist our client in a range of Business Transformation project. The role will be working 3 days per week on site and the remaining remotely.

The main function of a Change Management Specialist at this level is to drive transformation success on multiple cross-functional projects. This role oversees portfolio of projects for a discipline and serves as the specialist responsible for the development of project or change management standards and best practices for the capability, as well as supervising others.

Required experience/responsibilities:

• Proven experience working as a Change Manager
• Experience in a large global consumer-oriented business in the retail industry and/or a multi-channel/multi-brand business.
• Leads large, complex and/or critical cross-functional change initiatives or transformations to drive adoption and sustainment; Leads end-to-end change strategy development to design innovative change approaches for complex, multi-workstream programs across global business units; facilitates creation of compelling change narratives and visions that drive alignment, give shared meaning and enable commitment to goals.
• Deploys change tools to drive adoption of new behaviors.
• Defines change plan milestones and deliverables and manages assignments to completion.
• Drives project outcomes and ensures achievement of benefits.
• Develops and facilitates organizational change work including change readiness, input to communication development, input to talent management processes, input to leadership and ownership, learning/training, and change implementation and reinforcement plan.
• Ensures timely identification and mitigation of risks and issues.
• Facilitates the establishment of methodology, tools, quality control, and teaches capability's practitioners.
• Establishes credibility for the discipline by leading educational sessions with cross-functional partners; helps people understand the intersection of business process and organization structure.
• Challenges fundamental assumptions about existing business processes.
• Partners with others to reengineer/redesign processes.
• Desirable - Formal change management certification (Prosci, CCMP, or equivalent) preferred with evidence of continued professional development Formal education or certification in one or more disciplines (change management)

Senior Change Manager, £900 per day inside IR35

12 month initially, London & Remote Working