Change Manager

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Company Description

Job Description

Energise Your Career, Accelerate a Net-Zero Future #RenewablesJobs

The Opportunity

This pivotal role will help EDF R UK&I achieve ambitious growth by enabling effective scaling and aligning a multi-year improvement programme with our strategic goals.

You'll lead a comprehensive Lean programme to boost business performance and growth, while mentoring and coaching teams to build lasting Lean capabilities. As a trusted advisor to leadership, you'll guide them in driving impactful change across their areas of the business, ensuring key process, behavioural, and organisational improvements are identified and delivered.

By applying change methodologies, including Lean, you'll drive rapid improvement activities that deliver significant business outcomes. Beyond delivering immediate value, you'll embed change skills across all levels, building a strong, enduring capability for ongoing transformation.

This role combines accelerating improvement with reducing the cost of achieving it, ensuring EDFR UK&I stays future-ready and primed for continuous success.

Pay, benefits and culture

If you're looking to join a company where you can work hard, have fun, and help to create a Net Zero future - then you're in the right place!

Our passion for embracing new ideas and being open-minded to change helps us continue to grow successfully.

We're committed to helping all of our people thrive during their time with us, recognising and rewarding every person for their hard work and commitment.

Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that's an electric vehicle, private healthcare, additional holiday or one or more of our other benefits.

We'll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that's on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.

We're committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone's Welcome inclusion programme.

We're a disability confident employer and we'll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.

What you'll be doing

As Change Manager you'll define, build and mature our improvement system (skills, process and behaviours) to deliver impactful change at the right level of the organisation, resulting in cost efficiency and productivity improvements.

1. Engage, coach and train leaders (including executive) to participate and engage with the improvement system, reinforcing accountability at the right level of the organisation with a clear view of the golden thread from our business objectives, through the change deliverables, capturing the Return on Investment.
2. Run the annual cycle with the executive and LT to identify and define a multi-year transformation programme, including breakthroughs (facilitating the Planning into Action executive workshops).
3. Deliver significant steps changes within the business through the application of lean tools, including value stream analysis, rapid improvement events and daily improvement.
4. Build, develop and manage a team of lean specialists, who themselves can coach at a senior level of the organisation and drive improvements.
5. Capture and tell the positive stories around our transformational and continuous improvement journey, bringing to life the role that each person in the business needs to have in our future success.
6. Engage teams to implement daily improvement, leading our people to continuously improve as part of their day-job, with the skills and attitude to succeed.
7. Coach teams to drive out non-quality (waste) to substantially improve performance, increasing productivity and effectiveness, with high levels of staff engagement maintained, with a focus on the end to end value streams in our business.

What do you need to be great at this role?

You'll be an Inspirational Change Leader: Proven ability to align, engage, and empower teams to deliver complex transformations.

• Strategic Achiever: Demonstrated success in senior leadership roles, driving strategy and achieving measurable bottom-line results.
• Lean Expert: Extensive experience developing and embedding Lean/transformation programmes while mentoring leaders at all levels.
• Influential and Supportive: Skilled at influencing without authority, with a passion for empowering others to excel.
• Continuous Improvement Pro: Best-in-class expertise from industries like energy, aerospace, automotive, and engineering services.
• Exceptional Leadership: Strong communicator with sharp analytical and business acumen, delivering standout performance improvements.
• Relationship Builder: Trusted to forge credible connections across all organisational levels, including executive teams.
• Motivational Leader: Inspires matrix teams to achieve ambitious goals in dynamic, stakeholder-driven environments.
• Empowering Style: Creates a culture of trust, accountability, and support, driving team success and benefit delivery.

You'll be educated to degree level or a demonstration of ability to the same level delivered in a working environment.

Qualified Lean and/or Six Sigma practitioner, with experience of implementation of these skills across broad and complex organisations.

Closing date for applications: 27th of April 2025
Location: Working on a Hybrid basis from one of our offices, Edinburgh, Durham or London. We're proud to offer a Flexible First approach to work, meaning you can work comfortably from home with our offices as your base location.

Why EDF Renewables?

At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we're committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 500 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives.

It's a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland's challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland's most diverse generator of renewable energy.

To achieve our goal of generating a massive 10GW of renewable energy by 2035, we're working with stakeholders and communities throughout the UK and Ireland to unlock the enormous potential of the low carbon energy sector.

If you're passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us.

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Join us, and let's do good together.