The Organisation
Hays is working with The Guinness Partnership, who are one of the largest affordable housing providers in the country. They own and manage nearly 70,000 homes and provide housing services for nearly 160,000 residents. They employ over 2500 people across the UK and are an accredited Gold ‘Investors in People’.
About the Role
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 andernance across a portfolio of projects, which involve people, process and technology. They are specifically seeking someone that is used to driving people change initiatives using Prosci ADKAR methodologies, with a strong focus on business readiness (assessments, tracking, transition & cutover planning), 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,ernance, and methodologies.• Perform stakeholder analysis to plan effective engagement andmunication 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,munication 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.
Skills & Experience
• Proven track record of working in a Business Change role on a range of projects at varying levels of size andplexity, 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 essential Prosci or APMG Change Management Practitioner.
Salary & Benefits
You can expect apetitive 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).