Programme Change Manager - Global

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Your New Job Title: Programme Change Manager - Global

Your New Daily rate: £569 PAYE or £772 Umbrella p/day* £147K equivalent pa

The Skills Youll Need: Change, Transformation, PROSCI and/or APMG certification, FMCG/ Pharma/ Supply Chain or Manufacturing background

Duration: 1 year temp contract

Location: Weybridge/ hybrid - 2 days a week in the office

Start date: ASAP

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week

Who youll be working for:

Our client, a major FTSE100 business, who have fantastic offices in London are looking for a Programme Change Manager - Global.

What Youll be Doing:

This role will focus on the human side of change, which is about preparing, and equipping our colleagues to adopt and adapt to changes in job roles, organisation structures, business processes, systems, and technology, and more.

Main Responsibilities:

• Change strategy: Develop the 3-year change strategy and approach alongside the 2026 detailed change plan for the programme. Partner with the Programme Leads and Business stakeholders to execute the change strategy, whilst understanding and managing the change curve journey.
• Stakeholder engagement: Identify and map key stakeholders, assigning relationships and agreeing engagement approach. Build and maintain build appropriate engagement forums and mechanisms with all levels of stakeholders.
• Change impact: Lead the change impact assessment & business change journey – from ‘as is’ to ‘to be’ end to end business change.
• Communications: Develop the communication and engagement strategy and plan, articulating benefits, rationale and impact of change initiatives. Hold Programme Leadership to account to proactively contribute content for communications and to communicate effectively and in a timely manner with their teams and across their programme.
• Change Leadership: Coach and support business leaders to achieve expected outcomes and realise benefits by navigating and smoothing the process of change. Collaborate with key roles to identify potential sources of resistance and develop mitigation strategies.
• Transformation champion: Advocate for the importance of change management and clearly articulate how change can be implemented and supported effectively.
• Risk and issue management: Identify, document and support mitigation of key change management risks within the programme. Work effectively with Programme Managers & Leads to escalate common themes and resolve issues.
• Adoption and evaluation: Create and support delivery of actions that drive adoption of the change. Define success metrics and assess change effectiveness and readiness. Review and report on change outcomes and benefits.
• Upskilling and training: Work with Business Owners and SMEs to ensure appropriate training, support and capability building plans are in place for all stakeholders. Support Regional learning needs analysis to identify learning requirements. Partner with Training/Learning to ensure effective delivery and that learning is embedded.

The Skills Youll Need to Succeed:

• Proven track record of leading change programmes in complex organisational environments.
• Business acumen- Strong understanding of business operations and the ability to align change initiatives with business objectives.
• Leadership & Influencing- Strong leadership skills with the capacity to influence and guide others through periods of change.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills. Significant experience and skill in simplifying complex messages and presenting to senior management through written and verbal channels.
• Change management expertise – advanced knowledge of change management principles and practices.
• Experience in considering risks, evaluating alternatives, and encouraging input from others to effectively make decisions and plan mitigation tactics.
• Comfortable and skilled in operating in a complex operational matrixed organisation across diverse, global teams.
• Solid understanding of how people experience change, and the change process, including drivers of change resistance/barriers to adoption.
• Experience working on complex Global Programmes that involve multiple change elements across people, policy, process, and technology for 2000+ users/stakeholders preferred. CPG, PLM (or R&D or Supply Chain) experience - preferred.
• PROSCI and/or APMG Change Practitioner certification - required.

*Please note this Umbrella rate is the amount payable to Umbrella company - this does not represent what you will actually receive from the Umbrella company

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