Digital Transformation Specialist (12 months Fixed Term Contract)

Prattwhitney; Harlow; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

RTX in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Transformation Specialist to support the Connected Planning project. The role focuses on stakeholder engagement, communications, training logistics, and sustainment to drive readiness and adoption of new processes and systems across finance and manufacturing.

You will interface with the integration partner, project teams, and business units to ensure effective change management throughout multiple workstreams, enabling successful go-live and

Qualifications

• Experience leading change management in large-scale transformations.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship-building abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead stakeholder engagement activities and communications across workstreams.
• Review and input on change, communications and training materials.
• Coordinate Train-the-Trainer sessions and local adoption during deployment.
• Manage training logistics, schedules, sessions, and participant coordination.
• Support business readiness assessments and post-go-live adoption tracking.
• Collaborate with the systems integrator and business units to align with project goals.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Change management

Training support

Communication skills

Job description

Position Details

Location: Harlow, Essex

Country: United Kingdom

Role Type: Hybrid

Benefits

• £: Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Car/Car allowance (dependant on grade/ role)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave
• Private Medical Insurance

Work Culture

37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.

Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!

Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.

Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.

About us

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence. Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.

Our Business

As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers. With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.

What Raytheon Do

Raytheon UK is focused on leveraging new technology to deliver value to support our internal teams and customers. We are currently implementing a range of new applications across our finance and manufacturing teams. The result will be a common user experience across the businesses, real-time visibility into critical data, and automation of manual tasks to enable all employees to focus on value-add activities.

Job Description

Our connected Planning programme provides a structured and scalable approach to managing change. This role will manage stakeholder engagement, communications, training logistics, and sustainment to increase user readiness and mitigate risk for transformation activities whilst ensuring and measuring the successful adoption of new processes and systems.

We are seeking and experienced transformation specialist to support the project team in delivering the change management strategy across multiple workstreams and business units. This is an opportunity to be a key player in a high-impact business transformation project that will shape the future of our finance and manufacturing teams.

This role will be the interface between our chosen integrator, the functions and wider business to enable successful, business awareness, training and adoption of new systems and business processes, aligning with overall project goals.

What You Will Do

Work collaboratively with the Connected Planning project team and with our third party partner in direct support of our workstreams and the business units you will incorporate change management activities at each phase of the project.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Scheduling, leading, and delivering stakeholder engagement activities and communications through agreed internal communication channels.
• Provide review, approval, and business input for all change, communications and engagement, and training materials developed by our Supplier.
• Work with teams to nominate Super Users and trainers to participate in Train-the-Trainer sessions, and support local adoption during deployment and hyper care.
• Support team compiling training logistics such as determining the number of sessions required based on user numbers and workforce requirements; developing and maintaining the training schedule; confirming and allocating participants; managing bookings, invitations, and joining instructions; arranging rooms, equipment, site access, and required system access; distributing training materials; maintaining over all programme attendance records; Coordinating follow-ups for non-attendance across UAT Training, Train-the-Trainer, and end-user training.
• Support the distribution of training materials to participants and coordinating any additional training requirements, including supplementary UAT Training and Train-the-Trainer sessions, as required.
• Support Business Readiness Assessments
• Fully responsible for ongoing adoption tracking, determining, and working with the teams and our integration partner to prioritise any actions required to address adoption gaps,
• Creating, implementing and monitoring any communications, engagement, training, reinforcement, or other sustainment activities following go live.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Impact: Identify key stakeholders and manage relationships to ensure engagement, readiness and buy-in throughout the transformation process
• Support impact assessments to determine change readiness and understand how program changes will affect key stakeholder groups
• Facilitate discussions with business unit leaders and employees to address concerns, manage resistance, and encourage adoption of new processes
• Work closely with other change management team members to ensure consistent messaging and coordination across workstreams
• Communications Support the design and deliver targeted communication plans, tailored to the needs of different stakeholder groups
• Act as a change advocate, ensuring that communication materials and training programs are aligned with the change management goals of the project.

Desirable experience

• Relevant years' experience leading communications, people change and training support in large-scale transformation
• Proven ability to manage complex stakeholder environments and drive organizational change at multiple levels
• Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
• Experience with Strategic Planning and Strategy to Action activities
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to anticipate challenges and develop innovative solutions

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.