Change Manager

Matchtech; Whiteley; Hybrid; GBP 92,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Matchtech is assisting a leading defence and security organisation in recruiting a Change Manager for a contract role. The position focuses on delivering defined change work packages across multiple projects, emphasising safety, stakeholder engagement and user adoption.

You will manage change across two to three projects, develop change impact assessments and stakeholder maps, and work with ATC/airport stakeholders. A partnership with the internal change team supports a structured change journey.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in business change management or change management delivery.
• Strong stakeholder management across operational and technical environments.
• Experience conducting change impact assessments and developing practical change management plans.
• Understanding of people-side change, adoption strategies and resistance management.
• Ability to take ownership of established work packages and deliver outcomes at pace.
• Experience supporting change across multiple projects or strategic workstreams.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, organisation and relationship-building skills.
• Prosci experience would be advantageous, alongside an open approach to using established internal change methodologies and tools.

Responsibilities

• Delivering business change activities across approximately two to three projects and workstreams.
• Preparing change impact assessments, change management plans and stakeholder maps.
• Supporting projects including MVS change activity and airspace initiatives involving airport and air traffic control stakeholders.
• Building strong relationships with stakeholders and bringing people on the change journey.
• Identifying and managing resistance to change, ensuring solutions are adopted effectively.
• Driving delivery forward at pace across defined work packages and high-priority strategic outcomes.
• Working alongside communications specialists to coordinate engagement and support effective messaging.
• Applying people-focused change practices within a safety-critical environment.

Job description

Our client, a leading organisation within the defence and security sector, is seeking a Change Manager for a contract role supporting a portfolio of strategic change initiatives. The role will focus on delivering well-defined work packages across multiple projects, with a strong emphasis on safety, stakeholder engagement and successful user adoption.

Key Responsibilities

• Delivering business change activities across approximately two to three projects and workstreams
• Preparing change impact assessments, change management plans and stakeholder maps
• Supporting projects including MVS change activity and airspace initiatives involving airport and air traffic control stakeholders
• Building strong relationships with stakeholders and bringing people on the change journey
• Identifying and managing resistance to change, ensuring solutions are adopted effectively
• Driving delivery forward at pace across defined work packages and high-priority strategic outcomes
• Working alongside communications specialists to coordinate engagement and support effective messaging
• Applying people-focused change practices within a safety-critical environment

Job Requirements

• Significant experience in business change management or change management delivery
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage people across operational and technical environments
• Experience conducting change impact assessments and developing practical change management plans
• Understanding of people-side change, adoption strategies and resistance management
• Ability to take ownership of established work packages and deliver outcomes at pace
• Experience supporting change across multiple projects or strategic workstreams
• Excellent communication, facilitation, organisation and relationship-building skills
• Prosci experience would be advantageous, alongside an open approach to using established internal change methodologies and tools

Contract Details

• Contract duration of approximately six to nine months
• Hybrid working, with around two days per week onsite and flexibility according to project requirements
• Opportunity to contribute to important defence and security change programmes
• Work within an established change practitioner team with existing internal relationships