Group Change Manager - 18 Month Fixed Term Contract

Tesco UK; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail and technology company in Welwyn Garden City is seeking a professional to lead the design and deployment of change initiatives within the Group People function. The role involves delivering campaigns, managing stakeholder engagement, and overseeing a communications plan to ensure clarity and consistency. The ideal candidate has experience in change management and excellent communication skills. Flexible working arrangements are available.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Inclusive and accessible recruitment process

Qualifications

• Experience in leadership for change initiatives within a corporate environment.
• Ability to create and manage detailed deployment plans.
• Skilled in tailoring communications for diverse stakeholder groups.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and deployment of change initiatives within the Group People function.
• Deliver Group People Campaigns with detailed deployment plans.
• Establish and lead the communications plan for each change initiative.

Skills

Experience delivering People change initiatives

Practitioner in Change Management methodologies

Comms Experience

Job description

Change

• Lead the design and deployment of change initiatives within the Group People function.

• Deliver Group People Campaigns by creating and managing detailed deployment plans.

• Ensure plans clearly outline how and when changes will land across the organization.

Deployment

• Build strong stakeholder engagement across all impacted business areas.

• Partner with stakeholders to ensure a deep understanding of deployment requirements.

• Set the business up for success by preparing teams and functions ahead of change landing.

Communications

• Establish and lead the delivery of the communications plan for each change initiative.

• Ensure key messages are effectively landed and resonate with all audiences.

• Tailor communications to different stakeholder groups, ensuring clarity, consistency, and inclusivity.

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Accountable for

• Owning and delivering all change management activities applying a structured change methodology. Applying frameworks and methodologies to design, develop and deliver the change programme
• Creating and managing deployment plans across Group, including stakeholder analysis and management, learning needs, and change impact assessments.
• Developing a clear Group engagement plan to land the change and a plan to embed the change including support for colleagues while change embeds during hypercare
• Owning the Comms plan for the change, ensuring that key messages are landed and all audiences are considered
• Ensuring the change is relevant and considered for all Group Markets to which it is applicable

Working with

• Project team to ensure that timelines are aligned and assessing readiness for deployment of change. Providing deployment plan status updates to Project Manager where appropriate
• POE teams to understand the change and ensure all Markets have been designed for
• Group Market & Business Unit teams eg PBPs to ensure deployment plans are Market relevant
• Group Communications to ensure comms plan supports deployment plan and approach
• Learning & delivery team to define best learning approach for the change initiative and training delivery required to support successful deployment of the change

• Experience delivering People change initiatives
• Practitioner in Change Management methodologies
• Comms Experience

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