Job Title: Change Management Specialist
Location: Solihull (Midlands based, on site, occasional travel to Liverpool Halewood)
Rate: £291 per day via an Umbrella Company (Inside IR35) or £217 per day on a PAYE basis
Employment Type: Contract (12 month contract)
Hours: Standard 40 Hours Per Week
Reference: J37222743
Position Description
Responsible for planning and executing business change management, driving adoption of new manufacturing systems. Focuses on changes to business processes and tools. Applies change management methodologies, communication planning, organisational readiness assessment and stakeholder analyses. Ability to develop communication and change management plans, and oversee or monitor the execution to ensure adoption and minimal disruption of normal business operations.
Key Activities
* Describing and communicating impact of process changes on business roles, understanding and articulating the as-is and to-be states via multiple media.
* Defining a change strategy agreed with impacted managers, and delivering it, including onboarding early adopters and super users, usually via a transition network.
* Creating the stakeholder matrix and audience analysis, managing stakeholders and end users in scope for deployment activities.
* Hosting process walk-throughs/workshops with SMEs, process authors and relevant business users; asking key questions to understand the changes and recording them.
* Conducting business change impact assessments with relevant stakeholders to inform the training team of the changes and enable the creation of a robust change plan.
* Creating stakeholder communication and engagement plans; supporting the communication of these to relevant end users.
* Creating 'What's In It For Me' (WIIFM) campaigns targeted at role level using multiple media channels, developing, creating and maintaining reporting of the development of global business processes maturity, hosting engagement events and system showcases.
* Completing and maintaining change, communications and readiness plans, creating and maintaining new relationships with identified key stakeholders.
Skills
* Good understanding of multiple change frameworks with experience of the tools required to execute them; strong presentation skills.
* Experience of in-person collaboration and cross-functional team working.
* Strong stakeholder management skills.
* Ability to create and align standard timing plans for business change and readiness.
* Ability to critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and distinguish user requests from underlying true needs.
* Ability to liaise between the business, technology teams and support teams.
* Relevant accreditation or equivalent working experience preferred.
Education
* Recognised Change qualification preferred (APMG CM / PROSCI).
Legal
This position is confirmed inside IR35.
No terminology within this advert is intended to unlawfully discriminate on the grounds of age, sex, race or disability and we welcome all applications.
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