Business Change Manager

Solicitors Regulation Authority; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is seeking three permanent Business Change Managers to drive organisational change across our portfolio. You will analyse impacts, build stakeholder buy-in and embed strategic initiatives through coaching and clear communication.

Based in our Birmingham office with a hybrid pattern (1–2 days in the office per week, rest from home), you will collaborate across teams to shape how we navigate change and deliver outcomes. Closing date details apply.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering business change with change management methods.
• Exceptional communication to various audiences, for buy-in and engagement.
• Ability to build relationships with stakeholders at all levels, influencing skills.
• Flexible and adaptable, tailoring change approach to stakeholder needs.
• Strong analytical thinking with a solution-focused mindset for sustainable change.

Responsibilities

• Analyse potential impact of proposed changes on the organisation.
• Identify stakeholders and areas affected; build buy-in and engagement.
• Mentor and coach leaders and teams to drive resilience and change adoption.
• Communicate clearly to influence, negotiate, and deliver deliverables.
• Develop change management plans and conduct impact assessments.

Skills

Change management

Communication

Stakeholder management

Adaptability

Analytical thinking

Job description

We have an exciting new opportunity for 3 Business Change Managers to join us on a permanent basis.

The role

Reporting into the Lead Business Change Manager, you will work with the business to deliver a crucial role in driving successful organisational change projects and programmes across our portfolio. Key to the role will deliver change interventions that improve adoption, minimise resistance and ensure successful embedding of strategic initiatives.

Leveraging your understanding of how people and teams approach and respond to change, you will analyse the potential impact of proposed changes on the organization. This includes identifying key stakeholders and areas affected, using various techniques to build buy-in and engagement.

Through exceptional stakeholder management skills, you will form strong working relationships and gain trust from the business. You will focus on driving alignment and collaboration by mentoring and coaching our leaders and teams, helping build resilience and receptiveness to change.

Collaborating with teams from across the organisation and individuals of all seniority, you will be a confident and clear communicator, who can influence, negotiate and diplomatically challenge others to achieve common goals and execute deliverables. You will have experience developing change management plans and conducting impact assessments to identify potential risks and challenges.

Being part of a dedicated change team within Business Improvement, you will be a self-starter who uses their initiative and identifies ways to continuously improve processes and build best-practice.

This is an exciting opportunity suited to an existing Change Manager or an individual who has helped to deliver change in previous roles and would like to pursue a career in this field.

What we can offer

• Develop expertise in managing complex change deliverables in alignment with strategic goals
• Collaborate and learn from others across the business
• Shape how we help teams and individuals navigate change
• Raise your profile with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels
• A varied, tactical and strategic role, that touches all business areas.

What we are looking for

• Proven experience delivering business change effectively, with knowledge and application of change management principles, concepts, methodologies and tools
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences, influencing for buy-in and increasing engagement
• Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders of all levels, influencing, negotiating and challenging effectively
• Flexible and adaptable; tailoring the approach to change, prioritising a range of deliverables and adapting to stakeholder needs
• Demonstrates strong analytical thinking with a solution-focused mindset to enable successful and sustainable business change delivery.

Useful and additional information

There is a role profile attached at the bottom of this advert which details the full skills and experience required.

This is a hybrid role and will be based in our Birmingham office one or two days a week, and from home the rest of the week. You can explore more about our workplace in SRA via Staff videos page

Closing date for applications is 07 September 9:00 am.

Candidate who applied this role in last six months will not be considered.