Change Practitioner - 6 or 12 month FTC

AXA UK plc; Royal Tunbridge Wells; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company in the UK seeks experienced Change Practitioners to manage change activities on fixed term contracts. You'll lead business change management plans, ensuring successful adoption and minimal operational disruption. Strong change management experience is a must. The role allows for flexible working with hybrid options available.

Benefits

Competitive annual salary

Discretionary company bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Private health cover

28 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Strong experience in change management required.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience in Agile and Waterfall environments essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end business change management plans.
• Define tailored change management approaches.
• Work collaboratively to minimize disruption.

Skills

Change management

Collaboration with teams

Change impact analysis

Change readiness assessment

Stakeholder engagement

Change coaching

Job description

Overview

We\'re searching for experienced Change Practitioners to join us on either a 6 or 12 month fixed term contract. Reporting to the Change Practice Lead, you\'ll formulate, scope, and deliver change management and business readiness activities to ensure the successful adoption of change to maximise benefit realisation. This is an exciting time to join our business and help employees and members experience new ways of doing things and be part of driving this success. 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 two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.

What you\'ll be doing

• Accountability for leading the delivery of end-to-end business change management plans and activities across the project or programmes to maximise employee adoption and enable delivery of benefits
• Responsibility for defining tailored business change management approaches and frameworks
• Partnering with sponsors and delivery teams to ensure change management plans are integrated within delivery plans and stakeholders are aligned and advocates for the change
• Applying behavioural nudge tools and approaches to support individuals impacted by change to effectively transition through the change journey
• Working collaboratively with the business to ensure changes cause minimal disruption and that the business truly \"pulls\" the change into the operations, providing coaching on change management to departmental managers to support effective change adoption
• Ensuring a full change management assessment is undertaken and understood by leadership, including impacts on business processes, operating ways of working, and employee adoption and readiness for change

Qualifications & Skills

• Strong experience in change management
• Ability to collaborate effectively with multi-disciplinary teams
• Proven experience in change impact analysis, change readiness assessment, culture change techniques, change network management, stakeholder and employee engagement and developing the case for change
• Excellent understanding of change management skills with experience of working in both a Waterfall and Agile environment
• Experience utilising continuous improvement approaches
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing and organisation skills
• Ability to build effective relationships at all levels of the organisation
• Experience of change coaching and mentoring skills to enable sponsors and leaders to effectively fulfil their change management responsibilities

Other information

As part of your application, you\'ll be asked if you would like to \"opt in\". AXA is an Equal Opportunities Employer and promotes diversity and inclusion. We require pre-employment checks for all successful candidates and adherence to relevant regulatory standards. You must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom. Internal candidates are encouraged to apply for this role as a secondment opportunity through the internal careers site. We may provide interview feedback by phone or email where possible.

Benefits

• Competitive annual salary dependent on experience
• Discretionary company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private health cover
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts