Business Change Manager

The Guinness Partnership; Oldham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent housing association is looking for a Business Change Manager to shape and lead change activities across projects. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in Change Management, excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, and the ability to drive engagement at all levels. The role is a permanent, full-time position based in Oldham, adopting a hybrid working style.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of working autonomously in a Business Change role.
• Previous experience of leading Business Readiness or Change Adoption workstreams.
• Experience delivering readiness activities using best practice tools.

Responsibilities

• Shape, develop, and own business change activities for projects.
• Ensure effective preparation for people, process, and technology changes.
• Engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.

Skills

Change Management methods

Interpersonal skills

Microsoft Office 365

Collaboration tools

Leadership

Education

Recognised Change Management Qualification

Recognised Project Management Qualification

Tools

Software delivery tools

Job description

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Change Manager to join the Guinness Team. This is a permanent, full-time, 35 hours per week vacancy based in our Oldham, Bower House office.We are currently working to a hybrid working style.

The overall purpose of the role is to shape, develop, and own end to end business change activities for projects and programmes, to ensure that programmes and projects effectively prepare the business for the associated people, process, and technology change and adoption required to achieve the business benefits targeted.

What we’re looking for

We know that how we do things is just as important as what we do, so you’ll not only be highly self-motivated with the rigour to pursue goals, but you’ll also be a confident collaborator, networker and relationship builder with a willingness to go the extra mile to get the job done.

You’ll be able to demonstrate

Essential:

• Proven track record of working autonomously in a Business Change role on a range of projects at varying levels of size and complexity, 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 methods and standards 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.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 tools.
• Demonstrates the Guinness Behaviours.

Desirable:

• Experience of Cloud Adoption projects and programmes.
• Proficient in the use of software delivery and collaboration tools.
• Experience of Social Housing Sector.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Recognised Change Management Qualification.
• Recognised Project Management Qualification.

Desirable:

• Recognised Programme Management Qualification.

If you’re interested in finding out more about the key responsibilities of the role and/or to ensure you meet the essential criteria, please review the attached role profile.