Business Change Project Manager

Signet Recruitment & Retention; Bracknell; Hybrid; GBP 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent recruitment agency is seeking a highly experienced Business Change Project Manager to lead transformation programs at Honda Motor Europe. This role involves managing stakeholder engagement, cross-functional teams, and ensuring project delivery in an international setting. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in managing complex change initiatives and possess exceptional communication and leadership skills. The position is initially for 6 months with opportunities for extension, offering a competitive day rate of £500 with a hybrid working model.

Benefits

3 days in office, 2 days WFH

1pm finish on Fridays

Competitive salary equivalent

Qualifications

• Proven track record in managing complex business change projects.
• Exceptional communication skills to influence diverse stakeholders.
• Experience in an international matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of business change projects.
• Develop and maintain project plans and timelines.
• Engage and influence stakeholders to ensure support.

Skills

Change leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Project management

Communication skills

Commercial acumen

Cross-functional team leadership

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced and proactive Business Change Project Manager to support key transformation programmes within Honda Motor Europe. This role will lead the continued rollout and optimisation of a major European direct-to-consumer sales pilot in the UK, while also supporting the deployment of new CRM technologies designed to enhance performance.

Operating in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment, you will manage a complex landscape of stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and external partners — working with autonomy and confidence to ensure delivery. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of people, process, and technology, requiring exceptional change leadership, strong commercial acumen, and the ability to turn strategic intent into real-world results.

You’ll need to be highly people-savvy — capable of building trust, gaining alignment, and winning hearts and minds across all levels of the programme to drive momentum and achieve meaningful outcomes.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of business change projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives
• Develops and maintains detailed project plans, timelines, and deliverables for business change initiatives.
• Leads and motivates the project team to achieve project goals while fostering a collaborative environment.
• Engages and influences stakeholders at all levels, ensuring buy-in and support for change initiatives.
• Drives effective communication and change adoption strategies across impacted teams.
• Works closely with technical project manager to ensure business change activity aligns with technical timelines and requirements.
• Identifies, assesses, and mitigates project risks and issues, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations
• Produces and maintains Project Charter, including defining scope and objectives.

Required

• Proven track record in managing complex business change projects on fast-moving, multi-faceted transformation programmes.
• A self-starter, able to identify their own priorities and the key activities to keep a programme successfully moving at pace.
• Exceptional communication skills. Able to influence, persuade, and communicate with a diverse stakeholder pool. Able to communicate appropriate, concise, and accurate information in written and verbal formats.
• Able to take full responsibility and ownership for completion of tasks.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence without direct authority.

The successful candidate will have extensive experience of working in an international matrixed organisation. The role is initially for 6 months with the potential to extend. D2C background beneficial and ideally automotive.

The role is inside IR35 and the day rate is £500 per day ( £130k annual salary equivalent). Excellent environment with 3 days a week in Bracknell and 2 days WFH, 1pm finish on a Friday!