Business Change Manager

Sellick Partnership; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

Sellick Partnership is recruiting an experienced Business Change Lead for a permanent, hybrid role in Brighton. The successful candidate will partner with leaders to deliver lasting change, designing change management strategies and guiding organisations through transitions.

Key duties include leading people-side change, embedding practices across the organisation, coaching leaders, and developing stakeholder engagement and readiness plans to maximise value and minimize disruption.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading complex organisational change and transformation programmes.
• Experience designing change strategies that drive adoption and sustainable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the people side of complex change programmes and ensure adoption of new ways of working, systems, processes and structures.
• Design and deliver change management strategies and plans to maximise engagement and readiness.
• Partner with senior leaders and stakeholders to embed change practices across the organisation.
• Coach leaders and managers to guide teams through change.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Leadership

Problem solving

Communication

Strategy development

Job description

Salary: up to £63,089 dependant on experience

Sellick Partnership are currently recruiting for an experienced Business Change Lead to join our client based in Brighton. The role is offered as a Permanent contract working on a hybrid working basis.

The ideal Business Change Lead will establish and provide a partnering consultancy lead service and approach change management that supports leaders to fully engage and enable the organisation to deliver lasting sustainable outcomes and long-term value.

The duties of the Business Change Lead include:

• Lead the people side of complex business change programmes, ensuring successful adoption of new ways of working, systems, processes and organisational structures
• Design and deliver change management strategies and plans that maximise engagement, readiness and long-term adoption of change
• Partner with senior leaders, programme teams and key stakeholders to embed effective change practices across the organisation
• Provide expert coaching, guidance and support to leaders and managers, helping them successfully lead teams through change
• Identify and manage change impacts, risks and resistance, implementing appropriate interventions to improve outcomes and minimise disruption
• Work closely with project and programme teams to integrate change management activities into delivery plans and business objectives
• Develop stakeholder engagement, communication and readiness plans to support successful implementation and benefit realisation
• Monitor and evaluate change effectiveness through agreed measures, reporting progress, risks and outcomes to senior stakeholders
• Contribute to the development of enterprise-wide change frameworks, tools, guidance and best practice standards
• Support the growth of organisational change capability by building networks, communities of practice and knowledge-sharing initiatives

The Business Change lead will ideally have:

• Proven experience leading complex organisational change and transformation programmes
• Ability to develop and implement change strategies that drive engagement, adoption and sustainable outcomes.
• Ability to analyse information, solve complex problems and make sound decisions in ambiguous environments
• Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to work collaboratively across multiple functions and levels
• Skilled in managing change impacts, resistance, risks and organisational readiness
• Strong change management expertise, with knowledge of recognised methodologies such as Prosci, ADKAR or APMG
• Experience within a regulated environment would be beneficial