Change Practitioner - 6 month FTC

AXA UK; Bournemouth; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Change Practitioner to lead transformative initiatives within a dynamic environment. This role focuses on ensuring successful adoption of change initiatives, enhancing both customer and employee experiences. You will be pivotal in formulating business readiness activities and engaging stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle. With a commitment to fostering adaptability and continuous improvement, you'll thrive in a flexible work setting that balances home and office time. Join a team dedicated to making a real impact in the health sector, where your contributions will help shape the future of health and wellbeing support.

Benefits

Discretionary company & performance-based bonus

Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)

Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)

28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Opportunity to buy or sell extra days leave

AXA employee discounts

Gym benefits

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in leading change management initiatives.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the business change plan across multiple programmes.
• Develop strategies to enhance employee engagement and adoption of changes.

Skills

Change Management Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Communication Skills

Change Impact Analysis

Project Management Methodologies

Collaboration Skills

Strategic Thinking

Training Delivery

Education

Relevant Change Management Qualifications

Job description

Description

We have an opportunity for a Change Practitioner to join our team in AXA Health on a 6-month fixed term contract. In this role, you’ll be responsible for formulating, scoping, and delivering business readiness activities that ensure the successful adoption of change initiatives. Your expertise will be pivotal in maximising the benefits of strategic business changes whilst enhancing both customer and employee experiences. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are committed to fostering a culture of adaptability and continuous improvement, we'd love to hear from you!

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home, moving to the majority of your working week from September 2025. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.

Working hours: 37.5 hrs per week Monday – Friday.

We’re also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

What you’ll be doing:

• Accountable for the business change plan and organising change activities across multiple programmes within AXA Health.
• Establish a comprehensive business change approach and framework, ensuring effective stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle for successful delivery.
• Oversee thorough change management assessments to evaluate impacts on business processes, structures, and employee adoption.
• Develop strategies to enhance employee engagement and adoption of changes, leveraging best practices in change management to foster an adaptive mindset amongst teams.
• Communicate with Senior leadership to design, plan, communicate, and execute necessary organisational changes effectively.
• Partner with the business to ensure changes are implemented with minimal disruption to daily operations, providing coaching to departmental managers for effective change adoption.

What you’ll bring:

• Proven expertise in change management leadership, relevant qualifications advantageous.
• Experience in supporting end-to-end transformation processes.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficient in conducting change impact analysis assessment, culture change techniques, stakeholder mapping, and developing the case for change.
• Understanding of project management methodologies, including both Waterfall and Agile.
• Strong ability to collaborate across functions, ensuring successful business outcomes and thorough end-to-end testing of change initiatives.
• Ability to think strategically, challenging the status quo to ensure benefit realisation is achieved effectively.
• Proven ability in delivering end-user training on implemented changes.
• Excellent influencing, facilitation, coaching, and mentoring abilities.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

What we offer:

At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

• Competitive annual salary of up to £70,000 dependent on experience
• Discretionary company & performance-based bonus.
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• AXA employee discounts
• Gym benefits

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Who we are:

At AXA Health, we help our members be the best version of themselves by providing access to health and wellbeing support for mind and body. We’re transforming our business by developing easy, efficient, digital experiences for our customers. We’re a collective of specialists passionate about helping our members flourish, whether that’s individuals and families, small businesses or huge corporates.