Job reference 322854 Transformation Change Lead - South West Competitive salary plus £4200 Car allowance or £3700 as cash via payroll each month (£308.33) plus Healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential with 27.5 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days after 10 years service Permanent, Full time Office Location: EX, TQ, TR and PL An exciting opportunity has arisen as Royal Mail embarks on one of it’s most challenging Transformations in its history. You will be at the helm of a team comprising Senior Change Deployment Managers and Change Deployment Managers. Your role entails educating, exciting, and coordinating changes throughout an operational pipeline, aiming to realize cost savings, enhance quality, and ensure a seamless transition for the workforce. About the role In this role you’ll • Lead a team of Senior Change Deployment Managers and Change Deployment Managers, delivering change and transformation throughout the operational pipeline.• Be accountable for championing awareness, knowledge gain and desire for change through work packages and approaches to all end users / stakeholders. • Work with field operations, transformation, and project teams central programme experts to ensure that a detailed deployment plan is created along with contingency/risk mitigation planning. • Identifying, monitoring, and managing the risks and issues, related to their work strands/packages, and working with project managers, Senior Change Deployment Manager, and relevant operational stakeholders to identify and deploy suitable mitigation actions. • Support Regional Programme Managers in preparation of project boards to manage upward/downward feed of activity, progress against plan and escalation of any barriers throughout the project/change/revision life cycle. • Create the environment for Project Manager/Change Deployment Managers to grow and develop in their roles, championing the talent agenda and addressing under performance. • Manage, engage and communicate with stakeholders across the project/change/revision – both internally and externally, e.g., Field Operations, Trade Unions, etc About you To excel in this position, you will be able to demonstrate the following skills • Ability to coherently articulate how the project will deliver a coherent element(s) of the Integrated Transformation Plan • Ability to simultaneously manage a set of projects / revisions in various phases of deployment. • Ability to manage activities of the project / revisions with multiple key stakeholders. • Ability to utilise appropriate measurement tools to evaluate the on-going progress and effectiveness of the work- stream/package. • Proven use of programme management and change management methods, tools, and techniques. • Ability to effectively engage, communicate and establish credibility with all levels of the organisation. • Ability to work closely with the entire project and operational teams. Experience: • Proven experience of delivering project work packages to time/cost/quality within an overall project • Proven experience of working in teams/virtual teams in dynamic environments (up to 50 people)• Proven experience of operating at middle management level Next Steps The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face or virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions. Extra Benefits • Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave • Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*. • Supportive and generous company sick pay • Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone. *Available only to perm employees Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people. We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you. Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve. We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required. We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners. For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/ Closing Date: 2nd July 2025. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached. LI-POST RMG LIMRT LI-Hybrid