Change Manager

BSI; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Health insurance

Life insurance

Pension plan with company contribution

Car allowance

Income protection

Learning and development

Job summary

BSI is seeking an experienced Change Manager to support a major organisational change programme from Covent Garden or Milton Keynes on a hybrid basis. You will translate complex programme changes into clear communications and work with senior leaders to drive engagement across UK and regional time zones.

You will help create a joined-up view of change, manage readiness, risks and dependencies, and ensure messages stay aligned across multiple workstreams in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience working as a Change Manager within organisational change, transformation or operating model programmes.
• Demonstrable experience developing and delivering change communications alongside broader change management activity.
• Experience supporting complex programmes involving multiple workstreams, stakeholder groups and dependencies.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to work with senior leaders and programme teams.
• Ability to translate complex change into clear, engaging and audience-appropriate communications.
• Experience developing integrated change plans covering impacts, communications, readiness, risks and dependencies.
• Strong organisational and planning skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A practical, delivery-focused approach with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving programme environment.
• Comfortable working across different regions, cultures and time zones when required.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a joined-up view of organisational change across the programme, identifying overlaps, dependencies and potential areas of change impact.
• Translate complex programme and operating model changes into clear, practical communications for different stakeholder groups.
• Develop communications and engagement activity that helps colleagues understand the purpose, impact and timing of change.
• Work closely with senior leaders and business stakeholders to build understanding, engagement and ownership of change.
• Partner with workstream leads to identify impacted audiences and ensure change implications are understood and addressed.
• Support business readiness activity, helping identify where additional engagement or intervention is required ahead of implementation.
• Coordinate change activity across multiple programme workstreams, ensuring messaging and engagement remain aligned.
• Identify change risks, issues and dependencies and ensure these are understood and managed appropriately.
• Work collaboratively with communications colleagues to ensure programme communications are clear, timely and consistent.
• Support leaders and teams as they transition to new operating models, structures and ways of working.

Skills

Change management

Communications

Stakeholder management

Programme governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Operating model

Time zone coordination

Risk management

Job description

We exist to create positive change for people and the planet. Join us and make a difference too!

Job Title: Change Manager

Location: Covent Garden, London or Milton Keynes (Hybrid)

Contract Type: Fixed-term contract until the end of 2027

About The Role

We are looking for an experienced Change Manager with strong communications capability to support a significant organisational change programme.

As part of BSI’s Group Change Delivery approach, this is a practical delivery role where you will work closely with the Change Lead, programme and workstream teams, senior leaders and communications colleagues to ensure change is understood, coordinated and effectively adopted across the organisation.

You will help create a joined-up view of change across the programme, ensuring impacts, stakeholders, communications, readiness, risks and dependencies are clearly understood and managed. A key part of the role will be helping leaders and colleagues understand what is changing, why it is changing and what it means for them as the organisation transitions to new ways of working.

The role is based from either our Covent Garden or Milton Keynes offices on a hybrid basis, with flexibility required to work with stakeholders across UK, EMEA, AMAS and APAC time zones when needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a joined-up view of organisational change across the programme, identifying overlaps, dependencies and potential areas of change impact.
• Translate complex programme and operating model changes into clear, practical communications for different stakeholder groups.
• Develop communications and engagement activity that helps colleagues understand the purpose, impact and timing of change.
• Work closely with senior leaders and business stakeholders to build understanding, engagement and ownership of change.
• Partner with workstream leads to identify impacted audiences and ensure change implications are understood and addressed.
• Support business readiness activity, helping identify where additional engagement or intervention is required ahead of implementation.
• Coordinate change activity across multiple programme workstreams, ensuring messaging and engagement remain aligned.
• Identify change risks, issues and dependencies and ensure these are understood and managed appropriately.
• Work collaboratively with communications colleagues to ensure programme communications are clear, timely and consistent.
• Support leaders and teams as they transition to new operating models, structures and ways of working.

Essential

What we’re looking for

• Strong experience working as a Change Manager within organisational change, transformation or operating model programmes.
• Demonstrable experience developing and delivering change communications alongside broader change management activity.
• Experience supporting complex programmes involving multiple workstreams, stakeholder groups and dependencies.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to work with senior leaders and programme teams.
• Ability to translate complex change into clear, engaging and audience-appropriate communications.
• Experience developing integrated change plans covering impacts, communications, readiness, risks and dependencies.
• Strong organisational and planning skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A practical, delivery-focused approach with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving programme environment.
• Comfortable working across different regions, cultures and time zones when required.

Highly desirable

• Experience supporting large-scale organisational or operating model change.
• Experience working within a global, matrixed organisation.
• Experience working within a structured change delivery or programme governance environment.
• Previous experience partnering closely with internal communications teams.
• Experience supporting change across multiple countries or regions.

BSI offers a competitive total reward package, an independent and varied job in an international environment, flexible working hours, ongoing training and development with the inclusion of 27-days annual leave, paid sick leave, bank holidays, health insurance, life insurance, pension plan with company contribution, car allowance (dependent on role), income protection, paid maternity leave, paid paternity leave, paid parental leave, adoption leave, compassionate leave, paid bereavement leave, learning and development opportunities,and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle.

Do you believe the world deserves excellence?

We are proud to be the business improvement company for other organisations to become more sustainable and resilient and finally to inspire trust in their products, systems, services, and the world we live in.

Headquartered in London, BSI is the world’s first national standards organization with more than 100 years of experience. We are a global partner for 86,000 companies and organizations in over 193 countries, offering development, auditing, certification, and training services, including innovative software solutions and cyber security expertise for all industries: from aerospace and automotive to food, construction, energy, healthcare, IT and trade sectors. Incorporated by Royal Charter, we’re truly impartial, and home to the ultimate mark of trust, the Kitemark.

Through our unique combination of consulting, training, assurance and regulatory services we bring solid and broad knowledge to every company.

If you want to contribute to this inspiring challenge, bring your open and enthusiastic mindset to our dynamic team,

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About Us

BSI is a business improvement and standards company and for over a century BSI has been recognized for having a positive impact on organizations and society, building trust and enhancing lives.

Today BSI partners with more than 77,500 clients in 195 countries and engages with a 15,000 strong global community of experts, industry and consumer groups, organizations and governments.

Utilizing its extensive expertise in key industry sectors - including automotive, aerospace, built environment, food and retail, and healthcare - BSI delivers on its purpose by helping its clients fulfil theirs.

Living by our core values of Client-Centricity, Agility, and Collaboration, BSI provides organizations with the confidence to grow by partnering with them to tackle society’s critical issues – from climate change to building trust in digital transformation and everything in between - to accelerate progress towards a better society and a sustainable world.

BSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.