Location: Manchester Job Type: Permanent Industry: Business Transformation Job reference: BBBH437549_1776876600 Posted: about 13 hours ago
Change Manager
Location: Manchester (Hybrid working)
Contract: Permanent / Fixed Term (flexible)
Working Pattern: Hybrid (office and remote)
The Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Change Manager to lead and coordinate change activity across a complex portfolio of initiatives. This role plays a critical part in ensuring change is effectively planned, delivered and embedd...
Change Manager
Location: Manchester (Hybrid working)
Contract: Permanent / Fixed Term (flexible)
Working Pattern: Hybrid (office and remote)
The Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Change Manager to lead and coordinate change activity across a complex portfolio of initiatives. This role plays a critical part in ensuring change is effectively planned, delivered and embedded, enabling the organisation to realise sustainable benefits from transformation.
Operating as a senior practitioner, you will work closely with programme teams, operational stakeholders and senior leaders to manage change impact, readiness and adoption at scale. The role suits someone comfortable balancing multiple priorities in a fast‑moving, matrixed environment.
Key Responsibilities
Change Management
1. Lead end‑to‑end change management activities across multiple concurrent initiatives
2. Translate organisational change strategy into clear, actionable change plans
3. Act as a trusted advisor, providing expert guidance on change approach and delivery
4. Ensure people‑centred change is embedded across processes, systems and ways of working
Change Planning & Delivery
5. Conduct and oversee change impact assessments, stakeholder analysis and readiness planning
6. Manage and coordinate change roadmaps, sequencing activity to minimise change fatigue
7. Ensure change impacts across people, process and technology are clearly understood and addressed
8. Support transition into business‑as‑usual, embedding change to drive benefits realisation
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
9. Build strong, credible relationships with senior leaders, delivery teams and operational management
10. Advise leaders on change risk, readiness and mitigation strategies
11. Ensure effective, timely and targeted change communications are delivered
12. Support and coach leaders and managers in their role as change sponsors
Capability & Leadership
13. Provide direction, coaching and mentoring to Change Analysts, practitioners or change champions
14. Set clear objectives and priorities across change activity
15. Support the development of organisational change capability
16. Foster a collaborative, learning‑focused culture of continuous improvement
Skills & Experience
Experience
17. Significant experience in Change Management or Organisational Change roles
18. Proven experience delivering change across enterprise or portfolio‑level initiatives
19. Strong track record working within complex transformation programmes
20. Experience influencing stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership
21. Background in large, multi‑site or matrixed organisations is advantageous
Skills
22. Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
23. Strong capability in assessing and managing change impact, readiness and saturation
24. Effective planning, prioritisation and dependency management
25. Clear, confident written and verbal communication skills
Personal Attributes
26. Credible, calm and authoritative approach
27. Pragmatic and outcomes‑focused
28. Comfortable working with ambiguity and competing priorities
29. Politically astute, collaborative and resilient
30. Adaptable and effective in fast‑paced environments
31. Passionate about enabling sustainable, people‑focused change
Why Join?
32. Lead meaningful change across a diverse transformation portfolio
33. Hybrid working with Manchester as the primary base
34. Opportunity to work closely with senior leaders and shape change delivery
35. Role with genuine influence and visibility