Housing Transformation: Business Readiness Lead

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd. seeks a Business Readiness Analyst to support Housing Management System transformation in a hybrid West Midlands setting. The role focuses on planning readiness, engaging stakeholders, and delivering assurance for go-live across multiple delivery phases.

You will lead readiness assessments, translate programme changes into operational actions, and create clear training and comms plans to ensure smooth adoption by housing services teams and suppliers.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in business readiness, business change, or organisational change within transformation programmes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills (including senior stakeholders).
• Experience delivering readiness and business impact assessments.
• Confident leading a workstream with minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate business readiness activity across impacted teams.
• Run business readiness assessments and change impact assessments.
• Translate programme changes into clear operational impacts and required actions.
• Build and maintain a Business Readiness Plan to keep delivery on track.
• Engage stakeholders across operational and support functions to drive buy-in and adoption.
• Identify readiness risks, agree mitigations, and track actions through to completion.
• Define training, communications, equipment, and support needs for rollout.
• Set readiness measures and provide assurance reporting to programme leadership.
• Support go-live planning and readiness sign-off for each implementation phase.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Communication

Facilitation

Relationship building

Lead workstream

Job description

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd. seeks a Business Readiness Analyst to support Housing Management System transformation in a hybrid West Midlands setting. The role focuses on planning readiness, engaging stakeholders, and delivering assurance for go-live across multiple delivery phases.

You will lead readiness assessments, translate programme changes into operational actions, and create clear training and comms plans to ensure smooth adoption by housing services teams and suppliers.