Senior Change Deployment Manager

Royal Mail Group; Newtownabbey; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A postal and delivery service company is seeking a Senior Change Deployment Manager for a 6-month fixed term. The role involves leading the delivery of large-scale complex projects primarily within Northern Ireland, and requires experience in managing change in a logistics environment. Candidates should possess strong project and change management skills, and will engage with multiple stakeholders. This position offers a salary starting from £47,322 with additional benefits including a 10% annual bonus and generous leave policies.

Benefits

10% annual bonus potential

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Company pension scheme

Family friendly support

Discounts and offers

24/7 wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Experience managing change within a logistics environment.
• Ability to manage revisions in various phases of deployment.
• Proven experience of delivering project work packages to time/cost/quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of large-scale complex projects.
• Develop team members to ensure high performance.
• Complete weekly reporting on progress to all stakeholders.

Skills

Project management skills

Change management methods

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Logistics experience

Job description

Job reference 333582

Senior Change Deployment Manager - 6 Month Fixed Term

Salary from £47,322, 10% annual bonus potential, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with service and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates

Fixed Term, Full time

Covering Northern Ireland (some travel to England for meetings required)

About the role

In this position you'll

• Lead delivery of large-scale complex project strands, commercial projects and medium to large delivery office revisions (where a phased approach is required) within the scope of the Integrated Transformation Plan to time, cost, benefit & quality.
• Lead a team of Change Deployment Managers to provide a cohesive technical and people focused approach to project deployment from start up through early life support and PIR.
• Develop team members to ensure high performance and continuous improvement become a way of working.
• Lead a unit / plant Start-Up and stakeholder engagement meeting to ensure all deployments are fully understood and adopted by the receiving population. Challenge where stakeholders are not actively engaged.
• Complete weekly reporting on progress vs the plan to all stakeholders.
• Follow and look to continuously improve all nationally agreed processes/national agreements relevant to the change being introduced.

About you

To excel in this role you'll need experience of managing change within a logistics environment and possess the following skills and criteria:

• Ability to coherently articulate how the project will deliver a coherent element(s) of the Integrated Transformation Plan.
• Ability to simultaneously manage a set of revisions in various phases of deployment.
• Ability to manage activities of the project and/or revisions with multiple key stakeholders.
• Ability to utilise appropriate measurement tools to evaluate the on‑stream progress and effectiveness of the work‑stream/package.
• Proven use of programme management and change management methods, tools, and techniques.
• Ability to effectively engage, communicate and establish credibility with all levels of the organisation.
• Ability to work closely with the entire project and operational teams.

Please note, the role requires regular travel around the region covered.

Experience

• Proven experience of delivering project work packages to time/cost/quality within an overall project.
• Proven experience of working in teams/virtual teams in dynamic environments (up to 50+ people).
• Proven experience of operating at middle management level.

Extra Benefits

Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave.

Discounts and offers – there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.

Supportive and generous company sick pay.

Your Wellbeing – you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It's free, and it's for everyone.

*Available only to permanent employees.

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions and a presentation task. We plan to hold interviews on w/c 9th February.

We understand that candidates may not meet all the criteria for the role. If your experience is different, but you have relevant skills we'd love to hear from you.

Inclusion and diversity

Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.

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