Business Change Lead

Addition; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Hybrid working

Job summary

Addition Solutions in the UK is seeking a hands-on Business Change Lead to drive people, process and behavioural change across a major IT transformation. You will rebuild stakeholder relationships from senior leaders to operational teams and work with IT, project, and communications colleagues to land changes effectively.

The role focuses on practical adoption, readiness activities, and clear, consistent messaging to enable a smooth transition and measurable benefits realisation.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on business change experience within large-scale IT, ERP, HR, Finance, Procurement or digital transformation programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the confidence to engage senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Proven ability to rebuild relationships, facilitate workshops and bring people with you through behavioural and organisational change.
• Experience delivering change impact assessments, readiness assessments, communications and training.
• Good understanding of change management methodologies and practical adoption techniques.
• Experience working with enterprise platforms such as SAP, Workday, Oracle, Microsoft or similar.
• Strong programme delivery skills across governance, risk, issues, deployment and transition.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to make complex information clear for different audiences.
• A commercially minded, pragmatic approach - comfortable getting into the detail rather than staying at strategy level.
• Experience of benefits realisation and embedding change into BAU.
• Global or multi-site deployment experience would be advantageous.
• Change, programme or project management qualifications such as Prosci, APMG, MSP, PRINCE2 or Agile would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Lead the people, process and behavioural change activity across a large-scale IT transformation programme.
• Rebuild and strengthen stakeholder relationships across different organisational levels.
• Work alongside programme, project, technology and business teams to ensure change is practical, understood and adopted.
• Partner with the communications team to create clear, consistent messaging and support a smooth transition.
• Assess how new systems and processes will impact teams, roles and ways of working, identifying areas needing support.
• Develop and manage stakeholder engagement, communications, training and organisational readiness activity.
• Coordinate change champions and business change networks to build ownership and momentum.
• Plan and support deployment, transition, cutover and hypercare activity, minimising disruption.
• Track adoption, readiness, risks and benefits, reporting through programme governance.
• Identify resistance and change risks early, taking practical action to address them.
• Ensure new capabilities and processes are embedded into BAU operations.
• Support benefits realisation by linking technology delivery with measurable business improvements.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Change management

Workshop facilitation

Readiness assessments

Change communications

Adoption techniques

ERP platforms

Governance risk

Clear communication

PM qualifications

Tools

SAP

Workday

Oracle

Microsoft 365

Job description

Business Change Lead

A major technology transformation is underway within a highly complex engineering environment, and this role will help make sure the change lands properly across the organisation. You'll be hands‑on, working closely with stakeholders, technology teams and communications colleagues to turn transformation plans into lasting business adoption.

Role Overview:

• Location: Derby, Manchester or Warrington - hybrid
• Package: £60,000 - £75,000 p/a + benefits
• Duration: FTC until the end of the year, with the potential to move to permanent
• Industry: Engineering / Nuclear Technology
• Security: BPSS security check required

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead the people, process and behavioural change activity across a large‑scale IT transformation programme.
• Rebuild and strengthen stakeholder relationships across different levels of the organisation, from senior leaders through to operational teams.
• Work alongside programme, project, technology and business teams to make sure change is practical, understood and adopted.
• Partner closely with the communications team to create clear, consistent messaging and support a smooth transition.
• Assess how new systems and processes will impact teams, roles and ways of working, identifying areas that need additional support.
• Develop and manage stakeholder engagement, communications, training and organisational readiness activity.
• Coordinate change champions and business change networks to build ownership and momentum across the organisation.
• Plan and support deployment, transition, cutover and hypercare activity, keeping operational disruption to a minimum.
• Track adoption, readiness, risks and benefits, providing clear reporting through to programme governance.
• Identify resistance and change risks early, taking practical action to address them.
• Ensure new capabilities and processes are successfully embedded into business‑as‑usual operations.
• Support benefits realisation by connecting technology delivery with measurable improvements for the business.

Main Skills Needed:

• Significant hands‑on business change experience within large‑scale IT, ERP, HR, Finance, Procurement or digital transformation programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the confidence to engage senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Proven ability to rebuild relationships, facilitate workshops and bring people with you through behavioural and organisational change.
• Experience delivering change impact assessments, readiness assessments, communications and training.
• Good understanding of change management methodologies and practical adoption techniques.
• Experience working with enterprise platforms such as SAP, Workday, Oracle, Microsoft or similar.
• Strong programme delivery skills across governance, risk, issues, deployment and transition.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to make complex information clear for different audiences.
• A commercially minded, pragmatic approach - comfortable getting into the detail rather than staying at strategy level.
• Experience of benefits realisation and embedding change into BAU.
• Global or multi‑site deployment experience would be advantageous.
• Change, programme or project management qualifications such as Prosci, APMG, MSP, PRINCE2 or Agile would be beneficial.

What's in It for You:

• A hands‑on role with genuine influence over a significant transformation programme.
• Hybrid working with locations in Derby, Manchester or Warrington.
• The opportunity to work across a complex, high‑profile engineering environment.
• A role where stakeholder engagement, communication and practical change delivery are genuinely valued.
• Flexible and part‑time working options available, supporting different work‑life balance needs.
• The initial FTC has the potential to transition into a permanent position.
• An inclusive environment where different perspectives and working styles are valued, with reasonable adjustments available throughout the recruitment process and employment.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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