Change Management Lead

Royal London; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Employer pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) in London is seeking a Change Management Lead to drive people-focused change across enterprise projects, ensuring adoption and benefits realization.

You will establish RLAM's change capability, partner with senior leaders and teams, and shape how change is delivered using AI, governance and toolkit enhancements.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering organisational change management in complex programmes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and adoption strategy skills.
• Experience with change technology, AI and automation to improve efficiency.
• Ability to develop and embed change management frameworks and capabilities.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead change management across strategic programmes for adoption and outcomes.
• Assess impact on people, culture, processes; plan risk mitigation.
• Design strategies to boost stakeholder engagement, readiness and benefits.
• Embed change activities within delivery plans with teams.
• Develop and enhance change management frameworks, governance and toolkits.
• Advise senior leaders with coaching on change leadership.
• Leverage AI and digital tools to improve adoption reporting.

Skills

Organisational change management

Stakeholder engagement

Change leadership

Communication and training

Adoption strategies

Tools

Change management toolkit

AI and automation tooling

Job description

In everything we do, our people make the difference.

Contract type: Permanent
Hiring manager: Clare Jolly
Grade: C-2
Location: London
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 02 October 2026

We have an exciting opportunity for a Change Management Lead to join Royal London Asset Management's Enterprise Projects team in London. This specialist Organisational Change Management (OCM) role focuses on the people side of change, ensuring strategic, regulatory, operational and technology-driven initiatives are successfully adopted and embedded across the business.

As Change Management Lead, you will establish and lead RLAM's change management capability across its enterprise project portfolio, combining hands-on delivery with practice leadership. Working closely with programme teams, business leaders and key stakeholders, you will drive organisational readiness, stakeholder engagement, adoption and benefits realisation. This is an opportunity to shape how change is delivered across RLAM and influence high-profile programmes.

About the role

• Lead organisational change management activities across strategic programmes, ensuring successful adoption and lasting outcomes.
• Assess the impact of change on people, culture, processes and ways of working, developing plans to mitigate risks and maximise success.
• Design and implement change strategies that drive stakeholder engagement, organisational readiness, behavioural change and business benefits.
• Partner with programme, project and business teams to embed change management activities within delivery plans.
• Enhance RLAM's change management framework, methodologies, governance, toolkits and best practice guidance.
• Act as a trusted adviser to senior leaders, sponsors and delivery teams, providing coaching and guidance on effective change leadership.
• Leverage AI, automation and digital tools to improve change effectiveness, insight generation and adoption reporting.

About you

• Proven experience delivering organisational change management within complex environments across strategic, operational, regulatory or technology change programmes.
• Strong understanding of change management principles, including stakeholder engagement, organisational readiness and adoption strategies.
• Forward-thinking, with experience using change technology, AI and automation to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Experience developing change management frameworks, methodologies, centres of excellence or organisational capabilities.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to engage credibly at all levels, including senior leadership.
• Skilled in delivering communication, engagement, coaching, training and adoption activities that support successful outcomes.
• Comfortable operating as a subject matter expert, providing specialist leadership and guidance across multiple initiatives.

About Royal London Asset Management

Royal London Asset Management (RLAM), part of the Royal London Group, is one of the UK's leading fund management companies working with a wide range of clients across the globe to achieve their investment goals. Our long-term, client-driven focus means that we have a long-standing commitment to responsible investment. We act as responsible stewards of our clients’ capital, exercising their rights and influencing positive change.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We’re an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.

Only candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK or Ireland can undertake this role.
Unfortunately, Royal London is unable to provide visa or work permit sponsorship.