Change Management Consultant

Version 1; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit share

Career progression

Flexible/remote work

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Gym discounts

Job summary

Version 1 in Newcastle upon Tyne is seeking a Change Manager to guide large-scale transformation programmes. You will embed new ways of working and ensure the change lands effectively for staff across teams, collaborating with senior leads to secure buy-in and sustainable impact.

You will conduct CIA, translate outputs into interventions such as Training Needs Analysis, and maintain integrated change plans. A delivery-focused, collaborative mindset is essential in complex, ambiguous environments.

Qualifications

• Certified practitioner in a recognised change management framework (e.g. ADKAR, ACMP, CMI, Kotter, Lean Change Management)
• Experience producing high-quality change artefacts, including impact assessments, change plans and adoption reporting
• Comfortable using collaboration and delivery tools such as Jira, Miro and Lucid

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute structured Change Management activity across large-scale transformation programmes
• Embed new ways of working and ensure change lands effectively for the people affected
• Translate CIA outputs into actionable interventions (TNA, engagement actions) and maintain integrated change plans
• Stakeholder analysis, engagement strategies and managing change networks to drive adoption
• Define and track change and adoption metrics to evidence readiness and realised benefits

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Agile transformation

Jira

Miro

Lucid

Education

Change management certification (ADKAR/ACMP/CMI/Kotter)

Tools

Jira

Miro

Lucid

Job description

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated30 yearsinbusinessand continues to be trusted by global brands to delivertechnology and transformationsolutions that drive customer success. Ourdeepexpertiseenables our customers to navigate the rapidlyevolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships withglobal technology leadersincluding Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat,OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated30 yearsinbusinessand continues to be trusted by global brands to delivertechnology and transformationsolutions that drive customer success. Ourdeepexpertiseenables our customers to navigate the rapidlyevolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships withglobal technology leadersincluding Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat,OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We’rean award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heartof whatwe do:

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We’rea corevalues drivencompany, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them,it’sdeeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us andwe’llinvest in you!.

Job Description

The Change Manager works within multidisciplinary delivery teams to plan and execute structured change management activity across large-scale transformation programmes. You'll help embed new ways of working and ensure change lands effectively and sustainably for the people it affects, working closely with senior change leads, programme teams and business stakeholders.

Our Change Managers are “T-shaped” by design: with expertise in Change Management, and with evolving breadth across Organisational Design and AI.

As a Change Manager, you'll typically be embedded within a large-scale transformation programme, delivering structured change activity such as:

• Digital service transformation: supporting the rollout of new digital services through change impact assessment, training needs analysis and stakeholder engagement
• Regulatory and policy change: embedding new ways of working in response to evolving data, technology and compliance requirements
• Agile transformation: helping organisations adopt agile and product-led ways of working through new governance, team practices and capability building

Programme & Delivery Context

• Experience delivering business change within large, multi-pillar transformation programmes, working effectively across multiple workstreams
• Able to plan and align change activity to programme milestones, releases and deployment waves

Change Impact, Planning & Execution

• Experience conducting structured Change Impact Assessments (CIA) across processes, roles, skills and ways of working
• Able to translate CIA outputs into actionable change interventions, including Training Needs Analysis (TNA) and targeted engagement actions
• Skilled in maintaining integrated change plans aligned to programme delivery
• Experience planning and executing knowledge transfer, including structured knowledge management and effective handover into Managed Services

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Networks

• Able to carry out stakeholder analysis, identifying impact, readiness and key risks
• Skilled in delivering targeted stakeholder engagement strategies
• Experience establishing and managing change networks (e.g. change champions, super users) to drive adoption and two-way engagement

Adoption, Metrics & Benefits

• Able to define and track change and adoption metrics to evidence readiness and sustained adoptionSkilled in linking change outcomes to measurable benefits, including efficiency, productivity and improved ways of working
• Experience assessing business processes to identify efficiencies and support benefits realisation

How You Work

• Pragmatic and delivery-focused, comfortable operating in complex, ambiguous environments
• A collaborative team player who builds strong working relationships across programme and business teams
• Takes ownership and accountability for outcomes, not just delivery of change activity

Qualifications

• Experience producing high-quality change artefacts, including impact assessments, change plans and adoption reporting
• You are certified as a practitioner in a recognised change management framework (e.g. ADKAR, ACMP, CMI, Kotter, Lean Change Management)
• Comfortable using collaboration and delivery tools such as Jira, Miro and Lucid

Desirable Experience

• Experience establishing or working within change networks (change champions, super users)
• Involved in knowledge transfer and handover into Managed Services or BAU support functions
• Worked in the public or private sector on multi-workstream transformation programmes

Additional Information

At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Version 1 Pension with a 5% employee-matched contribution, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more.
• 24 days holiday allowance plus Public Holidays, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & quarterly Star Awards.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.

Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity.

We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact [e-mail] at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.