Senior Change & Transformation Consultant

Version 1; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly profit share

Career progression & mentoring

Flexible/remote working

Pension with 5% matched contribution

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Mindfulness workshops

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Version 1 is seeking a Senior Change & Transformation Consultant to design and deliver sustainable organisational change across AI, digital services and modern ways of working. You will work with multidisciplinary teams to embed transformation and ensure lasting impact.

The role involves applying established change-management frameworks, coaching leaders, and driving adoption through workshops, governance, and targeted training. Flexible/remote working is available.

Qualifications

• Experience applying recognised frameworks to organisational readiness assessments, change strategy development and risk mitigation.
• Skilled in stakeholder engagement, communications, training and transition planning; able to influence at all levels using evidence and storytelling.
• Experienced in designing, delivering and measuring adoption and behaviour change outcomes.
• Confident coaching and mentoring leaders and teams through complex change.
• Skilled at facilitating workshops that align stakeholders around a shared vision and build ownership of change.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary teams to design and deliver sustainable organisational change.
• Help clients adopt new capabilities and embed transformation across AI, digital services and modern ways of working.
• Provide governance, training and stakeholder engagement to support adoption and sustainment.
• Coach and mentor leaders and teams, fostering high-performing, inclusive environments.
• Build trusted partnerships with clients and work in agile, collaborative settings.

Skills

Change management frameworks

Stakeholder engagement

Adoption & behaviour change

Coaching & mentoring

Workshop facilitation

Education

Certified change management practitioner

Tools

Jira

Miro

Lucid

Job description

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated30 yearsinbusinessand continues to be trusted by global brands to delivertechnology and transformationsolutions that drive customer success. Ourdeepexpertiseenables our customers to navigate the rapidlyevolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships withglobal technology leadersincluding Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat,OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated30 yearsinbusinessand continues to be trusted by global brands to delivertechnology and transformationsolutions that drive customer success. Ourdeepexpertiseenables our customers to navigate the rapidlyevolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships withglobal technology leadersincluding Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat,OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We’rean award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heartof whatwe do:

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We’rea corevalues drivencompany, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them,it’sdeeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us andwe’llinvest in you!.

Job Description

The Senior Change & Transformation Consultant works at the heart of multidisciplinary teams to design and deliver sustainable organisational change. You will help clients adopt new capabilities, navigate complexity, and embed transformation that lasts. You will work across AI, digital services and modern ways of working, in partnership with clients and delivery teams.

Our Change Management consultants are "T-shaped" by design: with deep expertise in Change Management, and with breadth across Organisational Design and AI.

Typical Projects

These are some of our recent high-profile transformation programmes across sectors such as education, social care, justice and government, including:

• Agile transformation: helping organisations adopt agile and product-led ways of working through new governance, team practices and capability building
• AI adoption and governance: leading the people side of AI implementation, driving adoption and embedding responsible AI practices
• DevOps transformation: enabling the cultural, structural and capability changes needed for continuous delivery and modern engineering practices
• Digital service delivery: supporting citizen-facing digital service rollouts through process redesign, training and stakeholder engagement
• Organisational resilience: helping organisations become more adaptive through new operating models, team structures and decision-making approaches
• Product management capability: building product maturity by defining roles, establishing roadmaps, and coaching leaders and teams
• Regulatory and policy change: supporting adoption of new data, technology and AI-related requirements while building confidence and compliance

We are particularly interested in applications from candidates who can demonstrate robust experience in the following:

Change Management & Stakeholder Leadership

• Experience applying recognised frameworks (e.g. ADKAR, ACMP, CMI, Kotter, Lean Change Management) to organisational readiness assessments, change strategy development, and risk mitigation
• Skilled in stakeholder engagement, communications, training and transition planning. You are able to influence at all levels, from frontline teams to executive leadership, using evidence, data and storytelling
• Experienced in designing, delivering and measuring adoption and behaviour change outcomes
• Confident coaching and mentoring leaders and teams through complex change
• Skilled at facilitating workshops that align stakeholders around a shared vision and build ownership of change

AI-Enabled Transformation

• Strong understanding of AI as an enabler of business transformation
• Experience supporting AI adoption, governance, capability building, and responsible AI practices
• Confident using AI tools to enhance delivery and client outcomes

Discovery, Diagnostics & Systems Thinking

• Capable of rapidly assessing organisational structures, cultures, processes and ways of working through discovery, stakeholder interviews and workshops
• Able to synthesise complex information into clear insights and recommendations
• Understands whole-system impacts and interdependencies, visualising change through stakeholder maps, impact assessments and journey mapping
• Experienced collaborating in multidisciplinary teams alongside designers, researchers, product managers and technologists

Transformation Delivery

• Proven experience delivering change from mobilisation through adoption and hypercare, across domains such as digital and AI-enabled transformation, operating model change, and agile/DevOps adoption
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and competing priorities; able to work with resistance to design interventions across people, process, culture and capability

How You Work

• Builds trusted partnerships, working with clients rather than just for them
• Thrives in agile, collaborative, multidisciplinary environments
• Fosters psychological safety, inclusion and high-performing teams

Qualifications

• Certified practitioner in a recognised change management framework (e.g. ADKAR, ACMP, CMI, Kotter, Lean Change Management)
• Able to interpret performance data and organisational metrics to inform change decisions
• Skilled in systems thinking and co-design techniques
• Confident with collaboration tools such as Jira, Miro and Lucid

Desirable Experience

• Worked to the GOV.UK Service Standard or within the public sector
• Worked on large-scale digital transformation programmes
• AI governance and implementation
• Agile coaching or organisational design

Additional Information

At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Version 1 Pension with a 5% employee-matched contribution, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more.
• 24 days holiday allowance plus Public Holidays, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & quarterly Star Awards.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.

Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity.

We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact [e-mail] at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.