Defence Change Manager – Hybrid & Stakeholder Lead

confidential; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and hybrid working

Competitive salary and bonus scheme

Private healthcare and pension

Enhanced family leave policies

Wellbeing and mental health support

Employee assistance programme

Discounts and reward platform

Volunteering opportunities

Recognition and career development

Job summary

Datasource Computer Employment Limited is seeking a Business Change Manager to drive transformation across complex defence and security programmes in Cheltenham. You will lead change initiatives, engage stakeholders at all levels and ensure readiness for transformation.

The role requires strong communication, analytical skills and experience working with multidisciplinary teams, including engineering, software and security specialists. Hybrid working is offered.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering end-to-end business change across programmes or transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead business change activities across complex defence and security programmes and transformation initiatives.
• Identify, analyse and engage stakeholders, developing tailored communications plans that drive adoption.
• Conduct business readiness assessments and build action plans to prepare organisations for change.
• Support change sponsors and delivery teams throughout the lifecycle, managing risks and resistance.
• Carry out training needs analyses and deliver user enablement activities and training materials.
• Contribute to benefits realisation by defining metrics, tracking outcomes and demonstrating business value.

Skills

End-to-end change

Defence/ security experience

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Cross-functional teams

Tools

Jira

Confluence

GitLab

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Job description

Datasource Computer Employment Limited is seeking a Business Change Manager to drive transformation across complex defence and security programmes in Cheltenham. You will lead change initiatives, engage stakeholders at all levels and ensure readiness for transformation.

The role requires strong communication, analytical skills and experience working with multidisciplinary teams, including engineering, software and security specialists. Hybrid working is offered.