Senior Transformation Change Manager - 12 Month FTC ›

Aztec; Southampton; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a self-motivated Change Manager to drive transformation initiatives. This role focuses on enhancing client journeys and employee experiences through effective change management strategies. With a strong emphasis on behavioral change and stakeholder engagement, you will work closely with senior executives and various teams to ensure successful implementation. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence change at an enterprise level in a fast-paced environment, making a significant impact on the organization's growth and transformation efforts. If you're passionate about driving change and improving experiences, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Professional Development Training

Flexible Working Hours

Health Insurance

Team Building Activities

Qualifications

• 7+ years in change management with a focus on benefits realization.
• Experience in leading global change management initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement change management plans for initiatives.
• Identify and manage resistance to change across the organization.

Skills

Change Management

Stakeholder Management

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Project Management

Behavioral Change

Risk Management

Education

Change Management/Programme/Project qualifications

Tools

Change Management Toolkits

Job description

Job ID: 4991583003

| Location: Southampton

Reports to: Transformation Change Lead

Purpose

Aztec are looking for a self-motivated and driven individual to deliver change management at an enterprise level to support the delivery of Aztec's Transformation Programme. Reporting directly to the Transformation Change Lead, this role will need to be focused on planning and delivering the change through a change network and working with the core Programme/Project Team. The purpose of this role is to manage and lead the people change activities focusing on change adoption and benefit realization with a key purpose to enhance our client’s journey and our employee experience.

The successful candidate will need to have experience in change management from a people and culture, process, data, benefits realization, and technology perspective and will receive significant exposure to senior executives in a fast-paced and high-growth business and transformation. This role provides the opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering a new operating model and broader transformation to support Aztec's growth ambitions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement change management plans for the proposed change based on Aztec’s Change Management Methodology (including stakeholder analysis, change impact assessments, change plans, business readiness, and change interventions) to drive adoption and ensure a smooth and successful implementation of the initiative.
• Adopt the change management toolkits and frameworks from the Transformation Team to support the successful implementation of the change through a structured approach, working with the Change Team to adapt where necessary to deliver the size and complexity of change.
• Identify behavioral changes required at all levels across the organization resulting from the proposed change and identify and execute appropriate change activities to create sustainable adoption of new behaviors.
• Work closely with the transformation team, programme/project, training, and communications teams as well as the leaders across the business, to facilitate the deployment of change across jurisdictions, markets, and teams, ensuring the organization is ready for change and the impact of adoption levels is monitored consistently.
• Support the development of communications and training materials associated with the proposed change with the communications team.
• Based on the change impact assessment outcomes, work with the Change Team to align change plans with other programme initiatives and make a judgment on impacted stakeholders’ change readiness and whether certain populations have too much change and make recommendations to adjust the plans accordingly.
• Identify and manage any resistance to change across the organization through the development of strategies and frameworks which increase the success of change initiatives.
• Evaluate the impact of change activities through structured post-implementation reviews and feedback analysis, ensuring that future change management initiatives are developed using lessons learned and the approach and delivery of change continually evolves across the business.
• Develop and support a change management network by influencing and closely supporting the change community, providing consistent approaches, tools, methods, and coaching.
• Champion the development of a continuous improvement culture which will help deliver a continuously evolving and improving client and user experience. Together with the Change team, work on upskilling the business in change management.
• Involve people in the process of contributing to or shaping change plans – create a coherent working change vision which enables people to see clearly in their own minds where the change will take them.

Minimum Requirements:

• 7+ years working in a change environment with demonstrable success in delivering benefits on a project.
• Change Management/Programme/Project qualifications with proven use of tools and methodologies.
• Experience in delivering alternative fund servicing solutions preferable but not mandatory.
• Deep understanding of change from a behavior, process, and technology perspective. Can have a spike in one area but will need some experience in both other areas.
• Proven experience leading change management initiatives within a project/programme at a global level.
• Can evidence planning, executing, and monitoring the execution of change and how to maximize adoption levels.
• Exposure to the entire programme/project lifecycle with a proven track record of change management within a transformation programme.
• Attentive individual who is comfortable with delivering detailed outputs as well as executive level summaries.
• Strong experience in identifying and managing change risks.
• Strong experience working in a technology engagement environment.
• Excellent communication: communicates with clarity and confidence at all levels; adapts style and content to the needs of the audience by being inspirational. Energizes people to drive change/growth; highly adaptable to new situations and agile working across borders or teams.
• Stakeholder management: An ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders across all levels of seniority. Working in cross-functional and cross-jurisdictional teams to ensure positive outcomes for clients and people.
• Influencing and relationship building: proactively builds productive, open, and trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders; presents robust and convincing positions in the face of challenge while remaining respectful of others' views; negotiates effectively to agree on realistic outcomes.
• Delivering results: remains calm, effective, and positive even when under pressure; takes ownership for delivering outcomes and is highly pragmatic and action-oriented.
• Initiative and problem solving: identifies problems, provides/facilitates the creation of options and recommendations, and uses initiative to drive solutions in a positive and constructive manner; whilst being able to identify and manage risk.
• Change Management & Adoption: ability to focus on the human side of change by building and delivering change management strategies and plans to increase adoption and the success of the acceptance of benefits.

We will provide the training, both in-house for relevant technical knowledge and also professional qualifications to enhance your professional development. You will need to be quick to learn new systems and great with people, as close working relationships between our colleagues and clients is at the heart of what we do.