Change Lead

Broster Buchanan; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Broster Buchanan is seeking an experienced Change Lead to support a major Workday implementation, deliver an integrated change approach, and ensure the organisation is prepared for adoption.

You will coordinate change activity across the programme, bringing together business readiness, stakeholder engagement, communications, training and local implementation requirements, with governance and risks managed through programme forums.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the integrated change strategy and plan, aligned to the Workday programme milestones.
• Define how change impacts across functional, data and integration workstreams.
• Translate business impacts into practical change interventions.
• Develop and maintain stakeholder, sponsorship and engagement plans.
• Establish a change network with clear responsibilities and escalation routes.
• Coordinate communications and training activity through workstream leads.
• Ensure the change approach reflects country-specific requirements.
• Define business-readiness governance and measurement.
• Maintain readiness assessment and report gaps and interventions.
• Coordinate change dependencies across cutover, transition to BAU, and post-go-live adoption.
• Escalate decisions, resource constraints and readiness risks to owners and governance forums.

Job description

Reports to: Change Director / Programme Director

We are looking for an experienced Change Lead to support a major Workday implementation, deliver an integrated change approach, and ensure the organisation is prepared for implementation and adoption.

The role will coordinate change activity across the programme, bringing together business readiness, stakeholder engagement, communications, training and local implementation requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the integrated change strategy and plan, aligned to the wider Workday programme and its key milestones.
• Define and manage the change-impact assessment approach across functional, data and integration workstreams.
• Translate agreed business impacts into clear, sequenced and practical change interventions.
• Develop and maintain stakeholder, sponsorship and engagement plans.
• Establish an effective change network with clear responsibilities, capacity expectations and escalation routes.
• Coordinate communications and training activity through the relevant workstream leads.
• Ensure the wider change approach reflects business, functional, and country-specific requirements.
• Define business-readiness governance, measures and supporting evidence.
• Maintain the integrated readiness assessment and report gaps, risks and required interventions through programme governance.
• Coordinate change dependencies across cutover, transition to BAU and post-go-live adoption.
• Escalate unresolved decisions, resource constraints and readiness risks to the appropriate business owners and programme forums.